Biggest Tory donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’

The Guardian ^ | March 12 | Rowena Mason, Matthew Weaver and Henry Dyer

[RandFan]

The Conservative party’s biggest donor told colleagues that looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and said the MP “should be shot”, the Guardian can reveal.

Frank Hester, who has given £10m to the Tories in the past year, said in the meeting that he did not hate all black women. But he said that seeing Abbott, who is Britain’s longest-serving black MP, on TV meant “you just want to hate all black women because she’s there”.

He also called all his “foreign” workers together to defend himself against online claims that he had made racist remarks. During this meeting, he said he abhorred racism and told his team their progress would not be “based on the colour of your skin, your ethnicity, where your parents are from”.

However, he also said “we take the piss out of the fact that all our Chinese girls sit together in Asian corner”.

The remarks raise questions about the workplace behaviour and professionalism of a man whose money will be helping to bankroll the Conservative party’s general election campaign.

Hester, a businessman from West Yorkshire, runs a healthcare technology firm, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP), which has been paid more than £400m by the NHS and other government bodies since 2016, primarily to look after 60m UK medical records. He has profited from £135m of contracts with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in less than four years.

Hester gave £5m to the Conservatives in May 2023 and announced this month a further £5m donation, which had been accepted by the party from his company in November last year. With months to go before the next general election, a party spokesperson confirmed he was now its “biggest ever donor”.

[RandFan]

The media are going nuts over this

[Enterprise]

Well, I for one give a big harumph to this man. All the black females we have in positions of power are just practically perfect in any way. Hey, don’t laugh. Stop that right now. Don’t make me come down there!

[Secret Agent Man]

She looks like Penn (from Penn and Teller) in a wig. Ouchie. Also looks super friendly. /sarc

[Olog-hai]

Sure: let’s look at Diane Abbott of the Labour Party, who recently tweeted “Ramadan Mubarak to all who are observing this month in Hackney and beyond” . . .

[DeplorablePaul]

Good thing he doesn’t have to watch the communist Letitia James in action. She would make you hate all black women.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Don’t forget Fanni... and then there are a few others

[joshua c]

i think she is southern indian