Political Activism
Matt Abbott has been a keen supporter of the non-profit Love Music Hate Racism movement since performing spoken word at one of their gigs in April 2007. He performs a spoken word piece at every gig entitled 'Nazis on the Doorstep' which criticises the basis of the British National Party's policies and constantly speaks out against them in interviews and on his social network sites.
Through working with LMHR he has performed at and helped to organised gigs and carnivals nationwide, delivered workshops in schools across the Yorkshire area around election time and given talks at the Unite Against Fascism National Conferences in London.
He has also worked with trade unions such as GMB, particularly around the 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike. Despite being an active member of the Liberal Democrats at the age of 16 and strongly opposing the Iraq War, Abbott is now a committed voter for the Labour Party.
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