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Sat 28 Mar 20 13:43

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Falkirk Bairn

Appeared on video link
Pleads guilty and will be sentence April 8th

tinyurl.com/uu53x5l

No sign of Diane, maybe she could not find a pair of shoes.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 14:25

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - R.P.

What a dick. There goes a good career

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Sat 28 Mar 20 15:28

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Haywain

"What a dick."

Is this the chap who received the private eduction for which poor Diane was much mocked?

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Sat 28 Mar 20 15:37

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Manatee

James Abbott-Thompson, 28, was working as a diplomat...

Wow.

Is there more to this? Sometimes things just don't add up, especially with these bare reports of court proceedings.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 15:48

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - sooty123

Sounds like he completely lost the plot, I wonder what triggered his reaction?

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Sat 28 Mar 20 16:21

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Bromptonaut

Telegraph item back in January says he'd left the Foreign Office at the time the incidents took place. ISTR reports suggested he'd been under scrutiny over his performance but I cannot find any confirmation of that right now.

The Telegraph report and others refer to mental health issues.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/01/diane-abbotts-son-appears-court-assault-charges/

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Sat 28 Mar 20 16:28

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - No FM2R

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/james_abbott_thompson_dismissals

www.nationalsolicitors.com/mandy-peters/latest-news/diane-abbott-attempts-to-block-coverage-of-sons-court-hearing/

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Sat 28 Mar 20 16:34

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - No FM2R

You'd have to think that he had/has mental or emotional problems of some sort, it's a lot more than one incident.

www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/crime-court/james-abbott-thompson-charged-with-string-of-hospital-assaults-1-6448342

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Sat 28 Mar 20 17:12

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - smokie

One of the DT articles says "The court was told that most of the incidents relate to a time when Mr Abbott-Thompson was being treated for mental health issues."

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Sat 28 Mar 20 17:40

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - No FM2R

>>The court was told that most of the incidents relate.....

"Most" doesn't add a bunch of credibility to the mitigation. What about the rest?

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Sat 28 Mar 20 17:55

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Bromptonaut

>> >>The court was told that most of the incidents relate.....
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>> "Most" doesn't add a bunch of credibility to the mitigation. What about the rest?

Suffering from the problem but not being treated as no diagnosis and/or lack of insight into his condition?

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Sat 28 Mar 20 18:00

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Terry

Ms Abbott is a classic case of "do what I say, not as I do" .

Socialist in name and ideology, but right wing in her personal behaviour.

I won't shed any tears if this is the end of her political career - intellectually lightweight, specialist subject was conning her electorate, obviously lacking integrity.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 18:59

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Manatee

>> Ms Abbott is a classic case of "do what I say, not as I do"
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>> Socialist in name and ideology, but right wing in her personal behaviour.
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>> I won't shed any tears if this is the end of her political career -
>> intellectually lightweight, specialist subject was conning her electorate, obviously lacking integrity.

Why should it end her political career?

I think she must be ill TBH. She was shadow minister for public health for 3 years so she must have had a clue at some point but she was embarrassingly bad on QT or Any Questions a few weeks ago - really naive and cliched comments. I'll be disappointed if she makes the shadow cabinet when Starmer takes over the leadership.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 19:10

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Robin O'Reliant

Diane Abbot always gives the impression she is isolating from her brain.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 19:30

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - No FM2R

ha ha ha ha ha

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Sat 28 Mar 20 19:36

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - No FM2R

>>I think she must be ill TBH

I think so, she usually comes across as an utter plank these days, and has done for some time, but she cannot always have been like that.

Assuming that is the case, then sympathy to one side, it is difficult to see how she continues to survive in important political roles.

Something which will get resolved as soon as someone even barely competent takes over as leader and replaces the ineffectual and utterly useless Corbyn, Along with several others, I should think.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 19:51

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - James Loveless

"I think she must be ill TBH."

Apparently she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2015. But there was an unidentified illness which took her out of circulation in the last few days of the 2017 general election campaign.

I appreciate she has done well to get where she has, putting up with an increasing volume of hate mail and so on, but she comes over badly and does the Labour Party little good in interviews.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 20:18

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Robin O'Reliant

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>> Apparently she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2015. But there was an unidentified
>> illness which took her out of circulation in the last few days of the 2017
>> general election campaign.
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She was removed from the 2017 campaign because she'd turned herself into a music hall joke and was regarded as a disasterous liability by her party.

I have no doubt she has been a very good constituency MP, prepared to fight for her local people and is well regarded. But suitable for any kind of office she is not, she does not have the intellect to grasp even the simplest of economics. There are plenty of people ready to make excuses for her, but if a Tory MP performed to the same level those same people would be hanging him or her out to dry.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 21:23

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Lygonos

Or making him PM

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Sat 28 Mar 20 22:01

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - R.P.

"Or making him PM"

Hahahaha there is that.

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Sat 28 Mar 20 22:38

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Rudedog

Agree something deeper must be up... her sentences now always seem to be broken and never gets to any real conclusion often missing the point of the original question.

To me it all seemed to go downhill after that disastrous LBC interview which I heard when it actually went out (although I can't stand NF's pitbull style of questioning).

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Sat 28 Mar 20 23:08

Diane Abbott's son, James pleads guilty 2 assault - Haywain

"sentences now always seem to be broken and never gets to any real conclusion often missing the point of the original question."

A good friend seems to be acting like that; we fear he may be heading for dementia - like his twin brother.

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