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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The best way to prevent it is for everyone on the left or "center-left" if that second grouping is really anywhere on the left side of the spectrum at all)to stop attacking Corbyn and rally to Labour as the only party that can defeat the Tories. It's too late to change Corbyn as leader.
I don't favor mass deselections, never have. I favor accountability, a means to remind MPs that they are simply one group of people, rather than a parliamentary elite whose boots no one else in the party is fit to lick.
I get it that there will be shades of opinion in ANY party, anywhere, but the anti-Corbyn MPs(the ones who started all of the trouble by refusing to accept the outcomes of TWO legitimate democratic leadership elections) are acting as if they are ABOVE the rest of the party, that they owe the party whose rank-and-file activists keep them in office by doorbelling for them in elections NOTHING AT ALL, that they have no obligation to be significantly to the left of Theresa May at all that it's enough for them to call themselves "Labour MPs".
An MP should no to be treated like a demigod. She or he needs to feel some obligation to at least not sabotage the party-and what the anti-Corbynites have done is nothing but sabotage. They want Labour to go from having a leader with principles to having a leader who will join them in perpetually pushing the party further and further right(voting to cut benefits and support the benefits, as most of these people wanted Labour to start doing after the election, is voting to abandon the last meaningful difference that still existed between the parties. There was nothing else non-Tory left in the Labour program once the poor were officially abandoned and subjected to Victorian sanctimony, nothing at all). Those in the PLP who pushed for the final abandonment have learned nothing at all. They STILL think the party should have just endorsed the Tory manifesto and be done with it.
I want Labour to win. That can only happen if everybody in the party unites behind the winner of the leadership election. What you don't seem to get is that if Corbyn WERE forced out, no one who replaced him(no one to the left of Yvette Cooper would be allowed to by the PLP)would have no right to ASK Corbyn's supporters(who are still the majority of Labour members and supporters)to unite behind them, since that person would only be in the job because the PLP refused ever to reunite behind Corbyn.
Blame the sabateurs if May wing...not the people whose only crime was supporting the leader.