Taken For Granted, Indeed

I have known the man who used the Angry Black Woman trope against Diane Abbott for 33 years, and he has been calling me a "Mulatto" for nearly 20 of them, since he was on the staff of Tony Blair's Chief Whip, who was my MP. The right wing of the Labour Party is the nastiest faction in British politics by a country mile.

Labour has pretty much monopolised the Afro-Caribbean vote, in particular, but it has done very little to bring on members of that community, especially men. They have noticed. The Red Wall has fallen, and the Black Wall will be next, if only to mass abstention in the first instance. In any case, the Red Wall and the Black Wall are no longer two different places, if they ever were.