Bookmaker who used racist Dianne Abbott image has caused MORE ABUSE for the MP
A bookmaker has been forced to apologise after it posted a picture of a man blacked-up as Labour MP Diane Abbott on social media.
Star Sports Bookmakers posted the picture on Twitter on Friday evening showing a man wearing blackface at a darts competition and holding up a sign reading “190” – lampooning the shadow home secretary for her grasp of numbers. The maximum score off three darts is 180.
Earlier this year it was revealed that Abbott received almost half of all abusive tweets sent to female MPs in the run up to the General Election.
The report from Amnesty International also found that, excluding the shadow home secretary, black and Asian women MPs received 35% more abusive tweets than their white counterparts.
Abbott received 10 times more abuse than any other woman MP in the run-up to the General Election and eight times more abuse than any other woman MP during the entire period of analysis.
Out of the 140,057 tweets mentioning @HackneyAbbott, 8,121 tweets - 5.8% - were identified as abusive.
Abbott was sent 45.14% of all abuse tweets in the six-week period in the run up to June’s election.
Once again the abuse has started again due to the racist moron who black faced up and because of star sports sharing the abusive image.
This was posted today by Irish Sports and retweeted by them at Star Sports and the reply is vile.
Why is it under a Tory gov racism always rises?
Earlier this week the MP who used the racist Term "N***r in a woodpile" had her whip restored and was allowed to return to gov.
Racism is a normality in the Tory Party.
