The Tories and their mainstream press supporters often like to claim the Left is abusive, especially online.
But a new survey by Amnesty International of abuse received by women MPs in the run-up to the last election clearly shows that online abuse in Britain comes overwhelmingly from the Right:
And the MP who easily receives the most abuse is Britain’s first female black MP Diane Abbott:
Here is just a tiny sample of racist, sexist bullying, death threats and disgusting abuse being dished out online to Diane Abbott:
Hats off to Diane for taking such industrial scale horrific abuse so fearlessly.
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You can read Amnesty’s full report here.
Pride's Purge 
The huge scale of abuse direccted at Diane Abbott is sickening evidencing of racism which is not confined to right wingers. If you exclude Diane from the calculation and allow go the fact that there are more labour women MPs than Tory women MPs would that affect the result?
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Henry – You are right that the level of abuse directed at Diane Abbott is astonishing and appalling. I think Mr Pride is wrong and this phenomenon of abuse on social media actually has nothing to do with left or right, it’s about racism, misogyny and homophobia…… bigotry in other words.
If you exclude Diane from the calculation then the equation becomes more level, but the abuse directed at the SNP (mostly at Nicola Sturgeon) is what REALLY stands out, given that the population of Scotland is so much smaller than the rest of the UK. If you care to descend to the depths of reading the Daily Mail online comments you will see a huge amount of anti-Scottish/anti-Sturgeon feelings. There seems to be something about a successful, principled, Scottish, female politician which REALLY upsets Daily Mail readers.
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