Rejected petition Ask Diane Abbott to publicly apologize for remarks made about leave voters.

As a leave voter in the recent EU referendum I am sick of politicians who were on the side of remain using inflammatory remarks about immigration and branding us racists. As a member of Her Majesty's opposition Diane Abbott is irresponsible to effectively brand 17 million voters as racists.

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A google search 'Diane Abbott brands Brexit voters racist' brings up several websites of leading newspapers in the UK such as the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express, along with . This has also been reported in the newspapers.

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Date submitted 27 September 2016
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