They think it’s all over – the chickens are fleeing the coup
Still standing up and not standing by: Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party.
It’s true – reporters from the Torygraph think the mutiny by right-wing Labour MPs is over after Jeremy Corbyn refused their calls for his resignation for 11 days.
Readers of This Blog may recall that This Writer correctly predicted the fate of the coup, several days ago. It was over then, really. Ever since, the best description would be “zombie chicken coup”.
But I can’t help noticing that nobody in the Labour Party is named in the Tory rag’s report, meaning there is no solid evidence that it is accurate.
For that reason, I would urge supporters of Mr Corbyn to remain vigilant. Shocks have been known to happen after people relaxed for a moment.
And in any case, it will take a while for the aftershocks of the last 11 days to subside. Many Labour MPs have made terrible mistakes; some have killed their careers stone dead, and all of the mutineers are likely to face the wrath of their Constituency Labour Parties – whose members will rightly feel abused by their representatives’ high-handed belief that they could dictate to party members.
For example: Tessa Jowell is now facing accusations that she has fabricated a claim of homophobia against her fellow mutineer Angela Eagle’s Wallasey CLP.
She claimed that, at the meeting when that CLP told Ms Eagle to support Jeremy Corbyn and not support the attempted coup, Ms Eagle was subjected to homophobic abuse.
However – well, here’s the chair of Wallasey CLP to put that matter straight:
Many stories have been circulating to suggest that the coup, such as it was, has been masterminded by a PR firm named Portland. This Writer does not subscribe to that view. But it is entirely possible that such a firm may have been hired by those behind the rebellion, to manufacture such stories, to order, as a way of undermining Mr Corbyn and his supporters. There have certainly been a large number of them, and the Labour leadership will need to find out exactly what the real story was.
At the end of the day, we know that Labour MPs were acting in bad faith, committing acts of treachery against the party leadership and their own constituency parties, lying about both, and generally lowering Labour in the estimating of good people everywhere.
Not only have these people hindered the party’s chances of winning elections, solely because they dislike Mr Corbyn’s – and the wider party’s – policies, but they have brought it into disrepute with their constant defamatory attacks – and possibly by sabotaging their own work while members of the Shadow Cabinet.
That cannot be tolerated. These people are to be weeded out and subjected to punishment – if not full expulsion from Labour. It might be best for the ringleaders to own up now.
Labour rebels are in retreat after admitting that Jeremy Corbyn cannot be removed and would “win easily” if a leadership election is triggered.
One senior Labour MP said: “It’s finished” as it emerged that lengthy talks between union bosses and Tom Watson, the party’s deputy leader, had failed to find a solution to the deadlock.
MPs have now pinned their hopes on a challenge by Angela Eagle, despite many believing that she will not beat Mr Corbyn because of his support among members.
It follows weeks of stalemate between the Labour leader’s office and MPs who want to see Mr Corbyn step down without having to trigger a leadership campaign.
One senior MP told The Telegraph: “It’s finished. He will win easily in a second contest if he is on the ballot, it’s everything we wanted to avoid.”
They added: “He is losing support of the membership by the day, there is no doubt about that, but they just sign up new members to replace them. He is Teflon in that sense.”
A Labour MP told The Telegraph: “There are more talks planned, but when one side’s red line is that Jeremy stays in post and the other side says he has to go, it is impossible to find a compromise. It’s done.
“It’s no good. It’s possible that the PLP would consider some kind of executive role for Jeremy if he were to stand aside as leader but his team just won’t consider that option, they know where the power lies.”
Source: Defeated Labour rebels admit ‘it’s finished’ as Jeremy Corbyn refuses to resign as leader
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“That cannot be tolerated. These people are to be weeded out and subjected to punishment – if not full expulsion from Labour. It might be best for the ringleaders to own up now.”
Exactly- you cant have something that’s not Labour in the the Labour Party.
“He is losing support of the membership by the day, there is no doubt about that, but they just sign up new members to replace them.”
Maybe I’m misinterpreting/misreading that statement, but to me, it’s a bit of an odd statement to make (if not a little misleading).
Maybe Corbyn IS losing some members (no particular shock with that one), but the bit about “they just sign up new members”, makes it sound as though the Labour party are deliberately doing that, which of course, can’t be true.
My local Labour Party branch now has nearly 100 members. Most of them have joined because of Jeremy Corbyn. While there has been some drop-off, more have joined than have left. In the last week or so we’ve had many new members who signed up solely to vote for Mr Corbyn if a new leadership election were to take place – including Mrs Mike.
They are frit of the membership, and rightly so!
“He is losing support of the membership by the day, there is no doubt about that, but they just sign up new members to replace them.”
What, so they think Corbyn has a secret factory somewhere, churning out supporters on a production line?
If a few are leaving, but more are replacing them to support Corbyn, it can only be because HE’S POPULAR, and the treacherous back-stabbers AREN’T!
Just maybe, these are the ex-members who deserted in the labservative years under Bliar, Brown & Co in their droves, and are now returning – or maybe it’s their offspring.
But it doesn’t really matter, does it? It shows that Labour are more popular under Corbyn than they have been in a generation, and the Tory takeover is finished, along with the careers of those who attempted it.
Quote from The Telegraph article: “They said: “Jeremy and his team don’t care about the public, they don’t care about opposing this Government.”
Errr, what?! So far as I can see, everything Jeremy does is about representing the public and holding the government to account! He isn’t the one who distracted the nation from the shambles of the Tory government after Brexit, that was the PLP coup actors! They can’t be allowed to set that as the new narrative.
Don’t worry; I don’t think that’s going to happen.
I only included it in the article because I wanted readers to see the nonsense they were coming out with.
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