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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. In 2015 the Guardian ran an article explaining why blackfacing is wrong. Its a simple explanation why its wrong simple enough for children to understand, no doubt right wing racists will make some excuse up about it.  The article explained that apparently to “raise awareness” of African women and their “secluded cultures”, a Hungarian journalist  photoshopped her own face  onto portraits of black wo...

SNP  rising star Mhairi Black today revealed the excruciating moment that Alex Salmond told her to get a makeover. Ms Black said the awkward moment came shortly after she became the youngest MP in centuries at the 2015 General Election. Mr Salmond apparently told the then 20-year-old he had previously had the same conversation with  Nicola Sturgeon  before her meteoric rise through the ranks to succeed him as SNP leader and First Minister. SNP rising star Mhairi Black has revealed the excruciating moment that Alex Salmond tried to give her fashion advice +3 Ms Black said the awkward moment with Mr Salmond came shortly after she became the youngest MP in centuries at the 2015 General Election Ms Black – who is the SNP’s work and pensions spokeswoman in Westminster – revealed the encounter to  Holyrood  magazine. She said: ‘It was fine, really, he was just giving me tips here and there and then he says, ”I’m sure Taz will take you out...

GrenfellTower housed 600 residents 71 dead? 100 alive? So where are the missing  400+? For 6 months we've asked locals? Their voices and videos are astonishing... Grenfell tower Org ( https://t.co/T0LSJeuFXr ) says: 'we've been threatened not to release the truth!' #Grenfell💚 #JusticeForGrenfell   https://t.co/xB3AQecJzf What exactly have the Tory party got to hide? 

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 @Hack...

Seen at the HS2 Colne Valley entrance gate, this is an Amadillo. It is a CCTV spy robot watching protesters and feeding footage directly back to the police 24 hours a day. Watch out for these being installed near anti fracking camps! Welcome to 1984. Source

Conservative MP David Morris has ignited a storm of controversy after openly suggesting that Doctors and Teachers in his Morecambe constituency were lying about the extent of child poverty in the area, and that the claims were simply part of a Momentum-led conspiracy. A recent ITV investigation went viral on social media after teachers in the area claimed that child poverty was so bad that: They were having to wash pupils’ uniforms as parents could not afford their electricity bills They had witnessed parents passing out in the school hall through malnutrition after missing meals due to lack of money They had to regularly invite parents to join in with breakfast club in school and take them to food banks They had to regularly hand out shoes and coats to pupils whose parents could not afford them. Meanwhile, local GP Andy Knox said that he was witnessing a surge in the number of children coming in to his surgery with severe conditions linked to extreme malnourishment, suc...

Tories quietly name more than 50 donors who dined with top ministers and Theresa May after pressure from the Mirror. Guest lists have been slipped out without fanfare on the Conservative Party’s website - hours after we told how they had not been published for a year. Humiliated Tory chiefs have finally named dozens of super-rich donors who dined with Theresa May after pressure from the Mirror. That silence broke David Cameron ’s pledge to release details of the Leader’s Group, which lets donors who give £50,000 attend lavish private meals, every three months. We also revealed how the latest dinner was believed to have seen billionaires and tycoons dine on lobster and beef with the Tory leader just weeks ago. The meal came just hours after the government confirmed millions of people's benefits would be frozen for another year. The new list names 64 donors who attended a Leader’s Group meal with Theresa May or a top minister between January and June 2017. Billion...