That’s a question that should be asked of James Abbott, the son of Dianne ‘Eleventy’ Abbott. Abbott Junior has been arrested and charged with biting a police officer in the execution of their duty. Apparently, according to Guido and some national newspapers, James Abbott was involved in an incident outside the Foreign Office in Westminster, a department that Abbott was sacked from in June of this year. Abbott Junior must have been particulary inept to be sacked from the Foreign Office especially as an Oxbridge graduate going working on a country desk rather than doing some more menial administration job given to those with lesser qualifications.

Here’s what the Evening Standard said about the matter:

The son of shadow home secretary Diane Abbott is accused of punching and spitting at a police officer and biting his colleague in an incident outside the Foreign Office. 

Cambridge law graduate James Adam Abbott-Thompson, 28, allegedly assaulted the two PCs on Friday afternoon when he went to the government department to visit a member of staff, a court heard.

Abbott-Thompson is accused of spitting in the face of one officer as well as punching him, and then attempting to hit a second officer whose thumb he allegedly then bit. 

Abbott-Thompson, of Tottenham, was arrested and charged with two counts of assault by beating as well as a public order offence. 

He denied the charges at a hearing at Westminster magistrates court on Monday. 

James Abbott-Thompson is slated to appear again in court for trial in February 2020. Dianne Abbott’s response to the arrest was to try to stop newspapers and other publications writing about it. Thankfully she failed and we can now gawp and laugh at the result of Dianne Abbott’s failed parenting. This case should worry us however as Dianne Abbott’s first thought was to suppress or try to suppress the information about her son’s arrest. This is not the sort of action that we should be seeing from a person who aspires to be Home Secretary should the awful happen and Labour win the upcoming General Election. If she’s willing to go to law over this what else would she be willing to hide from the public should Britain ever have the misfortune of having Dianne Abbott as Home Secretary?

This story reeks of self-entitlement, arrogance and nepotism it really does. What on earth was James Abbott-Thompson thinking? Did he really expect that as a fired FCO employee and without a building pass he was going to be allowed in to see a serving member of the Civil Service? There’s no way anybody gets into any government building these days without either a permanent staff pass or temporary visitors pass. Was James Abbott-Thompson so arrogant that he thought that he could just waltz in to the FCO without being challenged? We shall of course have to wait until the court case for all to be properly revealed but I suspect that this altercation may have its roots in Abbott juinior being challenged by FCO staff.

This is not the sort of behaviour that one would expect from an educated 28 year old. This is the sort of arrogant and self entitled behaviour we would normally see in a particularly badly brought up teenager.

This incident does have a bright side though, it’s forced the Labour Party to play the ‘hide the Dianne Abbott’ game in order to spare the party’s blushes about having a race baiting, innumerate idiot shadowing one of the great offices of state. We have all been spared the sight of Ms Abbott being paraded around the media in order to show off her unsuitability for office, at least for a while. Also we now at last have someone to ask whether police officers taste like chicken. With James Abbott it’s obvious that the apple has fallen not that far from the tree.