Diane Abbott reveals she has type 2 diabetes and hits out at ‘vicious and negative’ Tory campaign
Diagnosed with diabetes: Diane Abbott MP
In her first interview since taking a break from politics, Diane Abbott has told the Guardian that type 2 diabetes, the condition she was diagnosed with two years ago, affected her performance on broadcast media in the run-up to the General Election.
Abbott, who was at the time shadow home secretary, said: “During the election campaign, everything went crazy – and the diabetes was out of control, the blood sugar was out of control”.
The MP, who has represented Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, said she felt she was personally targeted by the Conservative party as part of their campaign.
She claims the Tories ran “the most vicious and negative general election” campaign and believes that she “was part of Lynton Crosby’s grid”.
Crosby was also the strategist behind the Conservatives’ election campaign of two years ago.
Abbott was also saddened that the prime minister, Theresa May, as a fellow female MP, would oversee such nasty and personalised attacks: “The Tories need to explain why they singled me out”, she said.
The Labour veteran had a tough time in the run-up to the poll.
She struggled to answer questions in an LBC interview on the cost of boosting police numbers, and stumbled on Sky News when interviewed about London’s preparedness for a terror attack.
She also pulled out of a London Evening Standard hustings event, and an appearance on BBC’s Woman’s Hour.
Type 2 diabetes is a long-term condition that causes a person’s blood sugar level to become too high.
It can be controlled by taking medication to reduce glucose to normal levels and also by making lifestyle and dietary changes.
Just 48 hours before polling day, the Labour party said Abbott was taking a period of sick leave and would be replaced “indefinitely” by Lyn Brown.
Theresa May revealed in 2013 that she had type 1 diabetes.
More than three million people suffer from type 1 and and type 2 diabetes in the UK.
I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes and put on Metformin on June 26th, 2016. I started the ADA diet and followed it 100% for a few weeks and could not get my blood sugar to go below 140. Finally i began to panic and called my doctor, he told me to get used to it. He said I would be on metformin my whole life and eventually insulin. At that point i knew something wasn’t right and began to do a lot of research. Then I found Lisa’s diabetes story (google ” HOW EVER I FREED MYSELF FROM THE DIABETES ” ) I read that article from end to end because everything the writer was saying made absolute sense. I started the diet that day and the next morning my blood sugar was down to 100 and now i have a fasting blood sugar between Mid 70’s and the 80’s. My doctor took me off the metformin after just three week of being on this lifestyle change. I have lost over 30 pounds and 6+ inches around my waist in a month. The truth is we can get off the drugs and help myself by trying natural methods..
So diabetes turns you into a thick, racist hypocrite does it? Gotcha…
Yet Theresa May has Type 1 Diabetes which is far worse and requires five injections a day and never uses it as an excuse.
Diane Abbott never misses the opportunity to play a) the race card, b) the gender card or c) the health card. Now we have the triple whammy.
The woman is an incompetent, racist hypocrite.
If the Labour party can rightly remove her from her post “indefinitely”, then surely the people of Hackney deserve the same? ie remove her from her post “indefinitely”. We need an MP who represents the people of Hackney, something Ms Abbott has failed to do in all her years of (self) service. She has been resting on her safe seat laurels for too long – It’s time for her to stand aside and let someone with a vision for Hackney take over.
I have T2 diabetes, it has never prevented me from doing my job efficiently! I also suffer with migraines, which is what apparently prevented Diane Abbott from voting on Brexit. Teresa May has insulin dependent T1 Diabetes, which plays far more havoc with one’s life, having to test frequently throughout the day & inject insulin before meals.
Diane Abbott uses any excuse in the book to excuse her incompetence…and she is a hypocrite, sending her son to private school as a Labour MP!
I saw far more bitching against Teresa May from Corbyn supporters on social media than I did from Tories against Diane Abbott!
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” is my suggestion to Diane Abbott!
(And no, I did not vote Tory! I have major issues with all the main parties!)
She’s appears on national tv & shows she can’t do basic maths, then she compares her hair style or wig more like to her anti British values & support of terrorism or was she talking about Corbyn? I can’t keep up with her stupidly & then she lied out of her derrière by telling sky news she’d read a report which she clearly hadn’t & then she’s taken ill again because she has diabetes! There’s a lot of sick people in her party!
She’s a pathological liar! Who gives a #### if she’s diabetic. If she’s looking for sympathy for being one of the most dumbest ##### in politics she won’t get any.
I hope this is the final year we see this hypocritical incompetent liar as a Hackney MP.
Time to go…..
I’m so grateful we have Amber Rudd as Home Secretary & not Abbott.