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Vote: | Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. |
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Vote: | I can't bear most rap music because it goes on about whores and drinking Cristal champagne, and dancehall tends to be sexist and homophobic. |
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Vote: | I've recently bought a mini iPod. And because I travel on public transport it's proving a good way to listen to music again. Most recently I've been listening to what is called nu-soul: American singers such as Jill Scott, Angie Stone, India Arie and Erykah Badu. |
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Vote: | Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. In addition, most London shootings involve members of the black community and are often related to deprivation, gang rivalry or the illegal drug trade. |
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Vote: | My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain. |
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Vote: | My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. |
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Vote: | Private schools prop up the class system in society. It is inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a fee-paying school. But I had to choose between my reputation as a politician and my son. |
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Vote: | The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. |
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Vote: | The wide availability and relatively lenient sentences for gun possession is reflected in this surge of gun crime in London. Today's figures confirm what the APPG on gun crime has long recognised, namely that much stricter legislation and enforcement procedures are needed. |
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Vote: | Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen. |
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Vote: | You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. |
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Diane Julie Abbott (born September 27, 1953 in Paddington, London) is a British Labour MP in the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington. She was the first female black MP when elected in the 1987 General Election.
Born to Jamaican immigrants she went to Harrow City Girls' School and then Newnham College, Cambridge where she read history. After leaving university she became a researcher for Thames Television. Between 1976 and 1980 she was a civil servant and then between 1982 and 1987 a journalist. In the late 1980s she became the press officer of the Greater London Council (then led by Ken Livingstone).
Diane Abbott was married to David Thompson in 1991 until a divorce in 1993, she has one son by that marriage.
She attracted criticism from all political parties in late October 2003 and accusations of hypocrisy, after revealing her decision to send her son to the City of London School, one of the top public schools in the country, after having criticised Solicitor General Harriet Harman for sending her son to St Olave's, a selective, although state, school in Orpington, Kent, and Tony Blair for sending his son to a similar school, the Brompton Oratory (which is also officially a state school). However, Abbott herself said she reluctantly did so as she feared that her son could get into trouble in a state school because he is a black male.
She has also pursued a media career, acting as a pundit (often with Tory Michael Portillo) on the BBC.
External links *Diane Abbott official site
*Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Diane Abbott MP
*TheyWorkForYou.com - Diane Abbott MP
*The Public Whip - Diane Abbott MP voting record
*photograph of Diane Abbott in Finsbury Park 1987 by Pogus Caesar
...(more on Wikipedia)
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