Phillips and Crooks both defended Abbott's decision to take her son out of the state system and send him to the exclusive City of London boys' school.
Phillips invoked the words of black civil rights leader Malcolm X by saying black parents had to fight for the survival of their children 'by any means necessary'.

Coltrane: Thank you for highlighting this section, because I really thought that this was revealing...Ms abbot is obvious a liar, because the reason we were originally given for her decision was because of the lack of 'good' schools in the area.. Now as i originally suspected this was not her motive at all..

She obviously did NOT want her child to be schooled locally just in case he was 'infected' with this virus Garth Crooks spoke of...Now whilst I can understand to a point her reasoning.. I think this is a contradiction, he was voted in my the Hackney people to RESPRESENT them, but the subtext to her actions appear to be that the good people of Hackney that voted for her and kept her in office, are NOT good enough for son to be around hmmmm/

Personally I think Diane Abbot ought to be voted out of office at the next election and if there is any justice that is what will happen!!!