Diane Abbott faces £6,500 fine and possible prosecution for missing charity records
In hot water: Diane Abbott MP has missed important accounting deadlines
Hackney MP Diane Abbott is facing a £6,500 fine and possible criminal prosecution after her charity failed to keep its accounting records in order.
The recently formed Diane Abbott Foundation is two months past the deadline for filing its annual return, which includes vital information, including details of the directors, what the organisation does and its registered address.
It is also seven months overdue in filing its annual accounts, according to records on Companies House, which will slap Ms Abbott’s foundation with an automatic £1,500 fine.
But failing to file an annual return can also land a charity director such as Ms Abbott with a £5,000 fine and criminal prosecution.
Companies House writes to organisations to alert them when their returns are late. The education charity’s annual return was due on 3 January and is still outstanding.
The foundation was set up in 2014 to support black children in education. It was registered with the Charities Commission in October 2015.
The other two company directors and charity trustees are Heidi Mirza and Keith Davidson.
Diane Abbott was asked to comment about her accounting records but had not responded at time of publication.
Like her leader, late with her annual returns, although this was for a charity and not her own personal finances. However, it doesn’t give the impression of great financial competence.
Perhaps she should talk more to her Conservative peers on getting some tips on how to best avoid paying tax altogether.
This story about Diane Abbott previously appeared on Monday in the Andrew Pierce column in the Daily Mail.
Headlined “Diane Abbott in hot water on charity cash”, it contained a very stupid introductory paragraph that inaccurately asserted that the delay was Abbott’s personal financial problem.
The real “traction” in the Media about the name “Diane Abbott” is linked – evidentially since September 2015 – to her reported proximity to Jeremy Corbyn.
Other than that, the ‘story’ or its ’subject’ (reported delay in filing accounts) is even less significant than Paul Boateng’s failures to deliver on the contracted ‘expertise’ he had been paid for IN ADVANCE by Hackney in the 1980s.
Neither Boateng then nor Abbott since, has been really contextually held to account by – or volunteered to be sustainably, meaningfully accountable to – the Community in Hackney.
Let alone to the wider Society in the UK.
The Daily Mail’s wrongly published inaccurate piece is also at odds with the Daily Mail Group’s
failure to refer to the more serious issues that could be published about the Political roles played by these two Hackney-linked tokens of the racistly-confected “Black Sections” Bantustani appendage by the corrupt clique that held sway inside the Labour Party Bureaucracy in the 1980s.
Abbott has been closer to Ken Livingstone than to Corbyn, in so far as active promotion of any Political agenda has been concerned.
The simple fact is that Corbyn has held no mentionable political position within the state structure since she got in as MP at the 1987 General Elections when she had been exhibited by the apartheidists in the Labour Party as a symbol of the “Black Elections” “hopes and aspirations” (both the products of the apartheidist’ lying programme).
So what Abbott owes to the immediate electors in Hackney is far more serious than any excuse or explanations about the so-called delay in filing the charity Commission tick-box routine.
What has Abbott initiated by way of actual Parliamentary recognitions of the state of Social Cleansing in and through Hackney?
Why has Abbott been coy and silent about the huge betrayal and failure by the state-linked, state-approved , state-controlled and state-funded agencies in Hackney that have failed to support – let alone serve – the local Hackney Community to the extent that the conditions of ordinary “local” people in Hackney deserve and have deserved for the entirety of Abbott’s long career as “MP” for the Hackney Constituency?
Why has Abbott been in denial of the Community in Hackney where hundreds of campaigns have been initiated between June 1987 and April 2o016 (inclusive) and then suppressed by the collusion between the local Hackney Council and the Labour Party machine?
Why has Abbott failed to show IF she cares as much for the concerns, anxieties and rights of the thousands of parents and guardians in Hackney whose children have been denied the standard of “schooling” that she chose for her own child – something she COULD “afford”, while those thousands of parents could not afford?
Why has Abbott been in denial of the Community in Hackney where hundreds of campaigns have been initiated between June 1987 and April 2016 (inclusive) and then suppressed by the collusion between the local Hackney Council and the Labour Party machine?
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It is, regrettably, very common for small charities to be late with their filings. It’s a widely held opinion that the Charities Commission is not sufficiently funded to properly oversee the field.
The best way of avoiding taxes is to create a charity, simples.
Oh no!not the more rescources meme.
Corbin is as mad as a box of frogs. Vote for the frogs……
Try and get his name right!
Don’t worry it will go down as “expenses” so yet again The Tax Payer Will Pay the Bill!
Hey, what is missing is how raciaest, how can someone register a charity for BLACK children,
So there are no WHITE OR ASIAN children. Government department registering it !!!!!
HOW can she get away with this ‘ black children’ thing ,,,, if i set up a charity for WHITE CHILDREN there would be such n outcry of racialism, etc,,, she should be taken to court for this attitude , if it was a white person , we would have the book thrown at us
It h as been done just recently again another London “charity” supposed to be for kids.
There are a mix of children living in Hackney not just black.All children should be given the same help and protection. Abbot is wrong to set up a charity for one colour.
She is racist disgrace always has been always was I live in Hackney never done anything to help Hackney don’t matter what colour our kids are she just a thick plank useless
I agree Abbott is a racist.
Diane Abbott is a racist
Her Charity not filing it’s financial records she is taking her lead from the EU. The Eu has not had it’s books audited for at least 20 years…
Keith this is yet another lie – which after the last few weeks of perpetual lies is frankly dull.
https://fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36276175
There’s already a charity for white children. It is called life, you privileged twerp.