All is not well in the Labour party at present. If Sir Keir Starmer didn’t have enough on his plate, what with concerns about cronyism and the ongoing freebie scandal, one of his own backbenchers seems rather publicly out to get him too. Diane Abbott has been particularly active on social media lately, using her platform to slam Starmer’s top team throughout their first party conference in power – and the Corbynista is pulling no punches.
First going for the main man himself, Abbott posted a grainy photo of Sir Keir at the weekend as the frockgate saga ramped up, accusing the PM’s top team of being ‘in the pocket of millionaires’. It followed earlier interventions from Hackney MP — with Abbott admitting to the BBC she felt Starmer had treated her like a ‘non-person’ over the Frank Hester racism row, before confessing to Elizabeth Day: ‘I’ve never had a nice chat with Keir Starmer.’ Shots fired…
Then Abbott turned her guns on the Foreign Secretary, accusing him and Starmer of plotting a ‘madcap scheme’ on their trip to the US over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ‘David Lammy has let the cat out of the bag,’ the left-winger wrote. ‘It is clear he and the PM went to Washington with a madcap scheme to attack Russia with long-range weapons. But Biden dismissed them as completely reckless.’ Crikey. There’s no love lost there, eh? Next up was Rachel Reeves, whose economic plans were blasted after the Hackney MP suggested that Labour’s anti-austerity claims were without substance. ‘I don’t think any of the poorest or most vulnerable people will think that austerity is coming to an end,’ Abbott raged. Mr S isn’t quite sure that’s the party line…
An attack on Home Secretary Yvette Cooper followed soon after, with the Corbynista ravaging Cooper’s ‘shocking’ conference speech, fuming: ‘We will never compete with the right on anti-immigrant rhetoric.’ And finally it was Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s turn to be slammed by Abbott over his freebie fiasco excuses. ‘Streeting claims people giving big money to political parties are the same as people who donate to animal charities,’ the lefty Labour MP wrote furiously. ‘Nonsense. People give money to political parties to buy politicians.’ Not that her Prime Minister is particularly keen to face that home truth. Who needs political opponents with party members like these, eh?
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