cecil123 it was tolerable when she was a back bencher...but now she's in the shadow cabinet...got help us

brandybuck1984 her roundness meant that even as a back bencher, she still overflowed into the front benches.

hahahahah nailed it!

She was right, I am only going into minor detail though. He promoted women’s rights, China was unified, and life expectancy became much higher, land reform, China gained the platform to become a great power. Of course Mao did have his failures such as the great leap forward famine which he could not prevent. It lead to economic recession, it was a natural disaster the famine. Mao gave up meat and eggs also did many leading officials. Compare this to Winston Churchill’s reaction Bengal famine of 1943 in British controlled India. He asked “if food is so scarce why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?” He also blamed the Indians for the famine itself claiming they have been starving because they have been “breeding like rabbits” Churchill showed complete disrespect and disregard to the victims of the famine, yet nobody called Churchill a monster. The death toll of the Great Leap Forward is widely unknown. China’s population under Mao went from five hundred and fifty million to nine hundred million in twenty years. This was due to increase in life expectancy and a high birth rate. Mao is one of them historical figures who is always blamed for being a mass murder and for creating the biggest overpopulation problem the world as ever seen, very odd. The Cultural Revolution which was good for the proletarians and allowed people to go to school. 700% increase in school attendance. A decentralisation of power took place as well, power of the bureaucrats was weakened and the villagers and workers had far more control over the running of the economy in their villages than they previously had. Industrial production and farming went up. This was the so called “wasted years”. Diane Abbott was right. China’s life expectancy was below the world average early on and then surpassed the world average during the Cultural Revolution and that is a great achievement nobody should forget.

Cecil123 I'm a social worker ( albeit a male one, which is a relatively rare thing), and I certainly don't speak with anything like that kind of tone.i wouldn't dare. I am a Socialist party member who believes that the ' Hippopotabbot' is a total disgrace, both to UK politics and to herself. She is an undoubted racist who should have been instantly dismissed from the Labour party years ago.By the way, the Labour party will NOT let the Socialist party officially affiliate itself with it - that's how left wing the Labour party actually is , ie not bloody much. You can't call yourself left wing if you sent your kids to private school (Hipocrite- Hippopotabbot) , or hardly ever left your Islington chattering class coffee mornings , the entire time you were a back - bench MP (Corbyn). Sadly, Labour has to rely too much on the naivety and depth- less knowledge of under 25 s to make any impact at all. Hey, callow Millennials !, Take a look at the S Party if you really believe in tackling the excesses of capitalism. party years ago .

Mao Zedong spent several decades waging a guerrilla war against warlords, hereditary land dynasties, and bourgeoisie nationalists. He forged an alliance with his sworn enemies the KMT so that they could join forces and defeat the Japanese fascists which he spent nearly a decade fighting against. Once in power he and the Communists unites all of China. He then supports the New Marriage Law which gave full equal legal equality to all of China's 300 million women. There is no single person in all of human history who has done more for women's rights than Mao Zedong. But it does't stop there, the Chinese communists then free the Norsu people from slavery, making the Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists some of world history's greatest slavery abolitionists. Reforms in China under Mao were such a success that the life expectancy kept continuously rising under him until by the time of his death the average Chinese person's life expectancy had nearly doubled. He saved 600 million people from a premature death. Mao and the Chinese Communists kicked foreign colonial occupiers out of China, defended Korea from the USA and UK, and supported various anti-colonial freedom fighters across the globe.

Are you drunk?

Naughty Mao, Naughty....! Abbott 60 Million don't matter. Your a joke woman.

+Matt Florence In reality the communists barely did anything against the Japanese. The communists avoided war simply because they wanted the nationalists to become weaker so they could take over China. China was already a united country before Mao. Why do you have a problem with European colonialism but not with Han Chinese colonizing other people's lands like in Tibet and Xinjiang? The ''rise'' of communist China is laughable compared to the rise of Japan. China only became succesful and wealthy when they abandonded socialist policies.

“I was just putting the case for Maduro”

It is certainly beyond belief

Good on the people of Hackney North & Stoke Newington whom have voted for and retained her as their MP for 40 years. People who still think Marxism & communism are viable alternatives to our current oppression. That’s depressing.

Surely she is suffering from dementia.

That there are so many people voting her in so many times is even more terrifying as well as unbelievable.

Indeed, fortunately she has never had any real power.

What’s wrong with what she said? I’d love to know.

@@deviltype7578 you're not serious? Lol

@@deviltype7578 Hope you’re joking.

@@deviltype7578 defo trolling

"Waddle" lmao

guydecervens police People

His regime was also responsible for the slaughter of between 40 and 80 million people through various methods.

Mr Wolff Her gaff was that labour would hire 10000 police officers and pay them £7.50 a year salary.... obviously with a lot of overtime...🤣🤣🤣

Wait are you saying Liberal Democrat’s in America are championing an evil man who slaughtered millions of his people 😳😳😳😳

@@BattlestarDamocles Those numbers counted people who weren't born. One of the people who push the 40-999999999M narrative has gotten a Non-fiction award for his works.

+Marijan Karaula Uh, what?

Exactly the type of response you'd expect.

Rasputin, great response, well thought out. Clearly you are a scholar of the ages.

+Marijan Karaula. Clearly you are a scholar of absolutely zilch.

Thanks Schlomo.

She ticks the boxes, black and female!

Mao increased the life expectancy of their population from 33 to 65. Whatever way you look at it Mao improved his country, what existed before him was considerably worse. People's life expectancy does not go up when their lives are getting worse, it goes up when their lives are getting better.

Because the west needs china for everything and anything about china even mao is seen as a playful gaf if she said Hitler did more good than harm she would be lynched outside the bbc.

Because the British don't know fuck all about their history.....Even their local history is sketchy with regard to nazism....That's all we know here in the west...Nazism....If we fought Mao or Stalin and Brits died we'd probably see how dangerous the black man in a wig Abbott really is.

A gaffe? Surely, that's what she really believes.

Leftist media

The BBC.

I did the same thing as Portillo. If he got an erection over how attractive these guys are.

Someone has to.

@@tianwong152 mr wong you are DELUSIONAL. maybe you love that your people were killed? maybe you love ji jin ping pong as well?

yes the panel was asked to hypothesise why some people might think wearing a Mao t-shirt was ok. did you miss that?

Mao increased the life expectancy of their population from 33 to 65. Whatever way you look at it Mao improved his country, what existed before him was considerably worse. People's life expectancy does not go up when their lives are getting worse, it goes up when their lives are getting better.

Neil? Portillo? the BBC? Correct in all three cases.

@@PantomimeHorse no, the idiot who is defending one of the most evil people in history. But if u want to purposely ignore what he ment then go for it.

@@mistxfusion Who? Winston Churchill? Sure, he's up there along Hitler and the Nazis alongside Lord Palmerstone and Queen Vic.

@@tianwong1746 all of them combined can’t keep up with maos death count

@@tianwong1746 yeah sure whatever u say mate

As does every normal being

Careful! A lot of people who are obsessed with skin colour might accuse you of being racist there.

@@live_monkey2485 you're the only one that brought up her colour.

Oh my God, how has this dreadful woman got so far in politics ? She is as thick as mince……

Mao increased the life expectancy of their population from 33 to 65. Whatever way you look at it Mao improved his country, what existed before him was considerably worse. People's life expectancy does not go up when their lives are getting worse, it goes up when their lives are getting better.

Mao increased the life expectancy of their population from 33 to 65. Whatever way you look at it Mao improved his country, what existed before him was considerably worse. People's life expectancy does not go up when their lives are getting worse, it goes up when their lives are getting better.

She has every right to do so. It's her opinion.

Mao increased the life expectancy of their population from 33 to 65. Whatever way you look at it Mao improved his country, what existed before him was considerably worse. People's life expectancy does not go up when their lives are getting worse, it goes up when their lives are getting better.

60 million *citation needed*. Let's turn things around. When it comes to the American revolution do you complain about the number of redcoats who were killed by George Washington's men? Do you complain about the French revolution being a disaster because the republicans killed a few aristocrats? Do you believe the parliamentary system is wrong because during the English revolution hundreds of thousands died in the conflict? Don;t get me wrong I think your 60 million statistic you pulled out of thin air (or from Frank Dikotter) is ridiculous but you need to understand that revolution isn't a dinner party. Mao Zedong and the Communists fought against nearly all the strongest empires of their time and somehow came uot on top. That doesn't come without a price

@@The10000league: You appear to be on the same brain-washed level as Diane Blabalot..

The French revolution was a disaster though, didn't work like at all. The French literally went from one monarch, made a republic, went under another monarch, lost, and finally went back to the monarchy they wanted to rid themselves of in the first place with the Concert of Europe. Except Mao *Didn't* fight the Japanese, he hid in a fucking cave while the nationalists did and then came out and took down the weakened nationalists after the war. I guess the Korean war? But then they didn't really come out on top. they just put things back to exactly how it started. Might have helped in Vietnam, sure. But it's not like the Chinese were fighting a crap ton of wars with the Capitalists (you know... cold war and all) and the starvation of up to 60 million people was certainly caused in large part due to the radical reforms Mao Zedong tried to pull off to emulate the "success" of the Soviet Union's 5 year plan, which resulted in mass famine and a heavily declining life expectancy (If you look at a graph or chart you'll see that it just tanks, down below some of the poorest countries in the world). Of course China did recover and become an economic powerhouse... under Deng Xiaoping rather than Mao Zedong *BECAUSE* Deng supported the ownership of private properties and businesses (though no political freedom... *cough cough* 1989 *cough cough*), something Mao, as a communist. wouldn't have done.

You'd have to be an idiot to defend Mao

@@guyverjay1289 fuck with Mao you fuck with all 1.4 Billion Chinese people

What’s Corbyn got to do with this?

@@hamez1300 He led the Labour Party at the time abbott said this.

@@boxingboxingboxing99 This was in 2008 what are you on?

@@hamez1300 I just realised that but the point still stands anyway. Corbyn led a party in which she was a prominent figure; he basically gave her the all green on her comments. And is there any need for that last comment? Come on.

@@boxingboxingboxing99 So he went through all her television appearances just to make sure she was saying things he’d endorse?

Home Secretary* And she was just playing devils advocate; of course she isn't a Maoist. lmao

@jayms To unironically say something so indicting on live television should at least be indicative of her character and her innermost thoughts. Not saying she's an out and out Maoist, it's probably more that she's willing to 'look the other way' when it comes to her obviously hardline leftist beliefs. I mean, it's funny, you could probably argue the good points about Hitler or indeed many dictators, so the fact that she specifically used Mao Zedong as an example AGAINST the dictatorship of Hitler, should be evident of how she thinks, at the very least. "I mean ya know, as long as it's not NAZISM, then..."

DeFactoLeader My opinion of DIane Abbot has changed since my comment as I guess I've become more left-wing. She is not representative of the real left-wing struggles and ideologies. However, Maoist theories are pretty sweet fam.

Ben Garrison No chance.

@@dookoo2: Shadow Home Secretary - and long may she remain in that position because that makes her the best asset the Conservatives have.

More Stupid are the people who elected her and employed her.

Mao increased the life expectancy of their population from 33 to 65. Whatever way you look at it Mao improved his country, what existed before him was considerably worse. People's life expectancy does not go up when their lives are getting worse, it goes up when their lives are getting better.

Her boss probably agrees with her!

She could have definitely benefitted from Mao's manmade famine.

@@SagaciousFrank Diane ask for reparations while your at it.

Arithmetic was never her strong point, she probably thought the figure was six, and the noughts for decoration.

Unfortunately she doesn't care unless it fits her agenda.

Tyke Man My father was staunch labour detested thatcher. said he would never vote labour again. who can blame him with this bunch of idiots in charge.

I hope there are not enough stupid people to vote in the conservatives again after they have managed to increase the national debt by 550 billion some 2010.

Scary amount of retards have no clue how dangerous and stupid labour is right now. They have a shocking amount of support, will still lose though.

The only retards are the people stupid enough to vote for the Tories again after how poorly and corruptly they have run the country since they got elected.

The only people voting labour are students and poor people. £10 minimum wage!?!? Unrealistic, and we can expect a reverse course on fighting ISIS, were already not fighting them well enough so imagine what will happen if the capitulationists get in.

I'm not sure they are friends. I think she is there simply for the money. Can't imagine Andrew and Michael meeting the black racist for a drink or a meal in a public place.

Read a book please

What's so insane about facts? She is completely right. There is no God, but Mao is the closest humankind has ever produced to an actual God if there is one.

@@tianwong152 Please tell me you're joking.

@@shivill2236 Why the hell should I be? Mao is the greatest person in history. This is fact.

He's a bigoted racist dickhead who can't take the fact that China has done well all thanks to Chairman Mao's order to shoot the HMS Amethyst.

@@tianwong8514 your wrong wong ,he's one of the good guys. Keep Britain BRITISH, stop all the immigration, one way ticket available

@@alemgas Fine, then give up all your wealth. All those financial holdings you have in the City of London? Return them to African nations and pay reparations to your former Colonies. You steal others' wealth, don't be surprised they come after you for it.

@@tianwong8514 all African nations that have been left to their own devices have messed up big time, we educated them gave technology so we took stuff in return, what's the problem. Do you think I am wrong wong 😂

@@alemgas They didn't mess up at all. You are the ones that messed them up because you can't bear to see them do well. No you didn't give them technologies, since technologies were not yours to give. You don't deserve anything in return so anything you did give them should've been for free. However, since you refuse to pay what you owe, or even change your tone, then you will bear the consequences and accept the immigrants. When you Whites become the minority, we Chinese will help them do to you what a certain Austrian bloke did to Jews all those years ago. Then we'll see who's laughing.

They really didn't haha

@@antonionegron3230 Well colour me shocked, a Diane Abbott fan 😂

@@01r1sh LOL!! 😂😂

And neglects to mention that they've achieved that success using a capitalist framework

The Chinese will tell you Mao left no mess for Deng to fix.

@@mistazed1170 No we didn't. Quite the opposite. We achieved the success by playing the capitalist framework not by using it. We only take what suits us. Abusing it, if you will.

@@tianwong1746 Yeah just don't look underneath any Chinese tanks.

@@tianwong1746 the Chinese model is basically economic fascism

This part isn't actually completely untrue.

@@tianwong152 taking something bad and making it into something worse shouldn’t count as a point for Mao though.

@@811chelseafc Since when has it been up to you to decide what was bad or worse for the Chinese people?

@@tianwong1746 because I don’t distinguish between “people” and “Chinese people” and I believe any country that treats its population as a resource and not as a collective of individuals is not working in the interest of those people. And I don’t see how me sharing an opinion is “deciding” anything.

@@811chelseafc Then in that case you have no business deciding what's good for anybody on earth. Nor do you have any business having an opinion that differs from ours. You certainly don't get to decide or even have an opinion on what is or isn't to our interests.

❤ Animal Farm - my favourite book! 📖

HAHAHAHHAHA "more deaths that any other person" You are a brainwashed fucking idiot You'll be crying about Uyighurs next!

@@jamesjohnson2394 Found the CCP troll. Funny how it’s only the CCP who dispute it…

@@jamesjohnson2394 yeah he is. If not then who? Also yeah concentration camps based on religious grounds by an evil dictatorship aren’t very pleasant.

"in modern history" Well, in all of history... Mao was the biggest monster of humanity so far

@@songbird7450 I said modern history because I was sure someone with less of a life than me would correct me if someone in ancient history had killed more, but no 45 million is definitely without a doubt the largest death toll that can be attributed to one person.

I dont know where you take this number but ending cycle famine and almost doubling life expetancy is a pretty great thing

Of course you don't.

I don’t like Portillo, the Torys are shite...I’m on the left...but fucking hell Dianne read a book, you know with words. History is pretty clear Mao was a fucking disaster for untold millions. “Yeah but he made a great peach cobbler “ is akin to hitlers vegetarian cook book balancing out the Holocaust, or Stalin’s “101 ways to improve project management” cancelling the Gulags..... fuck no...

@@trapezeoidthreelobed7683 Well for racist bigots like you who don't like seeing the Chinese people do well then of course you will hate Mao. It's all good. Just keep your filthy hands off Taiwan or else we come after you and make you pay for those millions of dead during his time in charge. YES THAT'S RIGHT we blame the West for it all.

@@tianwong1746 you are Western though lmao “We” 🤣🤣🤣 Stop pretending you aren’t a paid Commie shill who created tour account one month ago

More frightening is that she's considered 'educated' !

Mao increased the life expectancy of their population from 33 to 65. Whatever way you look at it Mao improved his country, what existed before him was considerably worse. People's life expectancy does not go up when their lives are getting worse, it goes up when their lives are getting better.

Or whenever her lips begin to move.

He secretly wish he was a dictator like Mao.

I can imagine Boris saying this 🤣

@@beardtrick haha True!!

Comparing Mao to Hitler is absurd. One of them increased the life expectancy of their population from 33 to 65. The other mass murdered jews and plunged an entire continent into total war for no benefits and only harm. Whatever way you look at it Mao improved his country, what existed before him was considerably worse. People's life expectancy does not go up when their lives are getting worse, it goes up when their lives are getting better.

Her incompetence ya mean.

Or is that a grimace! 😂

Clearly she didn’t teach her son good manners.

Are you talking about the same son that attended an elite fee paying school while his mother was trying to close down grammar schools from the education system?

aren't they both pretty uncomfortable tho ? it looks silly./

Hahaha

Can he talk utter shite as well

Terrifying to think that that mess of a human being has actually procreated.

Her son that went to private school by the way. Some socialist 😆

I wonder if thats when he was chasing her round the kitchen with a pair of sissors!😂😂😂😂😂

Tokenism

Affirmative action

Kurt Kretschmann he was diane abbots mum

@@whitetroutchannel: Sorry to contradict you but that was Idi Amin of Uganda...

he did nothing wrong either, Imperialists BTFO

If you want me to judge Mugabe badly I won't. He tried to take back his nation's assets from Western colonisers. There's nothing wrong with that.

@NAP It is YOU people that fucked his nation. Not him. Don't worry, we Chinese will right your wrongs.

Doesn't stop him BEING a racist bigot

What... bbc is on her side 1000% percent.

The current Taiwanese government isn’t the KMT….. yes the KMT did flee and rule Taiwan for many years

yellowpepperpot: And made a complete arse of herself in the process...

Why? Because she has every right to.

@@tianwong7168 I have every right to shit on the table during a family dinner too. It doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

@@scottend5239 If you want to shit on your own table that's down to you. However, you fuck with our Chairman Mao, you have 1.4 Billion people coming after your blood.

@@tianwong7168 People have a right to put the case for Hitler. But they are not stupid enough to do so.

@Insert Name Here They brought it all upon themselves for being compradors to Anglo-American interests in China. My grandad was in the KMT army and wasn't paid for months. When he WAS paid, he found the money he was paid with was worthless. He needed whole wheelbarrows of cash just to buy a sack of rice. That was when his entire division defected to the Eighth Route (nickname for the Communist Army).

Not at all. My granddad was there. Even in the final day of the War, August 14th 1945, the KMT forces lost a prefecture.

@Insert Name Here Exactly, so the KMT brought it upon themselves. The CCP rightfully won the civil war.

bigbad123321: He staked his claim before Blabalot overwhelmed him...

true