He's damn right the Labour party is in peril. Wiped out years ago in Scotland, it's just about to go the same way in England. Every timeserving careerist & warmongering neoliberal in that hollow shell of a party is running scared, because they have now rashly exposed themselves for exactly what they are.
More than three-quarters of Labour MPs – 172 – voted to show that they had no confidence in his leadership, while 40 voted for him.
The Party's over, unless Corbyn actually manages to save it from the brink.
Corbyn responded by issuing a warning that he had the support of Labour members, and that he was going nowhere.
“I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today’s vote by MPs has no constitutional legitimacy,” he said.
"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966
MacCruiskeen » 29 Jun 2016 18:21 wrote:He's damn right the Labour party is in peril. Wiped out years ago in Scotland, it's just about to go the same way in England. Every timeserving careerist & warmongering neoliberal in that hollow shell of a party is running scared, because they have now rashly exposed themselves for exactly what they are.
More than three-quarters of Labour MPs – 172 – voted to show that they had no confidence in his leadership, while 40 voted for him.
Well, I just channelled the spirits of Daniel O'Connell, Lenin, Bismarck, Sylvia Pankhurst, Rosa Parks, Walter Benjamin, Che Guevara, Albert Einstein and Muhammad Ali and they all said, with remarkable unanimity: "Nope. That won't work."
Fwiw.
Now I'll try to get Jeremy Corbyn on the phone and ask him.
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"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966
The Guardian view on Jeremy Corbyn: after the experiment
The question is no longer whether his leadership should end, because at Westminster it already has. The challenge for the Labour left is to rescue something from it
-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
It's possible that even if Corbyn gets removed, another with very similar values but untainted by years of being in the club will emerge - someone fresh and clean.
why/how were all these shitty worthless MPs elected in the first place? How soon can they be replaced? Because it's seems to me a lot of them would loose badly were elections held soon.
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Remember when - it wasn't long ago - the media made great play of Corbyn's "enemies list".
He apparently had a big long list of Labour MPs, MSPs, political and media advisers, hangers-on, functionaries, useless fortune-tellers like John McTernan, etc. and other Labourite flapjacks who his people judged were hostile to him within the party.
According to the media, this list-keeping proved that Corbyn and McDonnell were nutjobs, and Corbyn in particular was a paranoid Stalinist weakling, filled with a burning hatred of all things Third Way and centrist, who hates Britain.
The list was entirely accurate though, wasn't it? The people named turned out to be backstabbing cunts right enough, just as precicted, no?
No?
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