Well done Labour NEC - Corbyn can stand

'the official Labour Party line now over "you will be eligible to vote in leadership elections" is "it doesn't say which elections"'

How unedifying to see these MPs scratching around for any obscure rule and asking for legal advice on the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law in their attempt to find some way to stop Corbyn.

"Rules say no", "computer says no", "Establishment says no"

LowDudgeon, you are spot on.

The Daily Mirror has an article about the Labour party suspending local party meetings until the leadership contest ends. The article doesn't really shine a light on it, but the comments underneath by readers and Labour supporters and possibly members, are eye-opening about it. The Establishment think the people are stupid, but they aren't.

''none of the CLPs can vote no confidence in their MP''

Corbyn is more popular than them. The whole country is seeing how they operate

'another vote Robert Peston compared to ‘gerrymandering‘ by Corbyn’s opponents'

Non-Labour voters, who admire Corbyn's guts in standing up to their bullying, gerrymandering and constant denigration on the BBC and in the media, are seeing how little they respect democracy and the will of their own members. It is an unedifying sight and millions of non-Labour voters as well as Labour voters and members are hoping that Corbyn beats them and delivers a victory for democracy even if the Establishment doesn't want Corbyn.

'none of the CLPs can vote no confidence in their MP'

'With their crackdown on party democracy, Labour’s reformers have become entrenched'
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"The NEC have of course now suspended CLP meetings until the campaign is over, ostensibly to ensure the safety of all concerned. I suspect there’s more to it.

For all the evident bad blood, if members cannot sit in the same room with each other without resorting to violence then the party is finished anyway.

It does have the happy side effect for some of guaranteeing none of the CLPs can vote no confidence in their MP.

The decision was taken in an NEC session which contained another vote Robert Peston compared to ‘gerrymandering‘ by Corbyn’s opponents. That vote was not on the agenda and was taken after Corbyn and a couple of his supporters had left, resulting in party members who had joined in the last six months being ineligible to vote in the leadership election."

leftfootforward.org/2016/07/with-their-crackdown-on-party-democracy-labours-reformers-have-become-entrenched/

'The up-to-date ones, not yours from a year ago? Corbyn is not popular with the general public, he is not popular with union members.'

RiverTam, the polls are wrong as we know. They are probably often fixed by the Esatblishment and their mates. On the eve of the Referendum, the Establishment told us that they were ten points ahead of the people in the polls and the markets believed the Establishment and their polls, and yet the people won.

The reason Corbyn is losing support in the country is because he has had a relentless campaign by the media, the BBC, the Establishment stooges and his own MPs against him from teh time he got in. That has an effect on the public. Even I am getting fed up of Corbyn's weakness in not sacking them. He finally did it, but he should have done it ages ago. In reality, despite the Establishment's tricks and tears about bullying from Corbyn supporters, Corbyn will probably beat the Establishment opponents and if he then does mandatory re-selection, Establishment candidates will probably be removed, and then Corbyn won't have to put up with his own MPs on TV every night telling the public how useless Corbyn is, and then Corbyn will climb in the polls.

'Labour leadership candidate as popular with Ukip voters as Labour voters, Survation finds, and is top in London, according to separate poll''

Not at all. I think Jacob Rees-Mogg, Old Etonian and Oxbridge, is fantastic, a real breath of fresh air, because he has the courage to speak his own mind and articulate common sense. I vote for common sense politics, which happened to be Corbyn's slogan, copied from UKIP "straight talking common sense".

What I am against is puppets who are propelled into office because they do as they are told. Corbyn isn't one of them, aand nor are Trump, Farage and Rees-Mogg.

Corbyn's policy guy is Seumas Milne, PPE Oxford. Great and he has the courage to think differently and not do as he is told.

sailawaywithme - the OP is not a fool, she's a shrewd Tory. She's never hidden the fact she's right-wing - currently UKIP.'

flowersandsunshine, I am a floating voter like millions of others. I have no party allegiance, unlike you. I voted Blair in 1997, then Tory, then UKIP when I finally had enough of Cameron and the team of modernising spinners, who are exactly the same as the Blairites.

'Labour leadership candidate as popular with Ukip voters as Labour voters, Survation finds, and is top in London, according to separate poll''

Like lots of other voters, unlike you, I like Corbyn because he offers a different politics to the Blairite and Cameron spinners. The Etsbalishment is terrified of Corbyn and are desperate to stop him because he won't do as they tell him, unlike the Blairites etc. When the Establishment come knocking and tell Corbyn they have a war for him to join in with or a regime that needs toppling, Corbyn won't do it, he won't go along, and that is why they want Corbyn not to get in.

I don't agree with all of Corbyn's policies and think that McDonnell's talk of "every country will have open borders by the end of the century" is bonkers. I don't agree with Corbyn on climate change, I agree with Corbyn's excellent brother, Dr Piers Corbyn, and Piers says he discusses climate change with Corbyn over Christmas dinner, so maybe Corbyn understands what it is really all about. But you can't have everything in politics, I am happy to ignore the things that I disagree with Corbyn about if he comes up with good policies on housing, education, health, care for the elderly etc.

I, like millions of other non-Labour voters, would never vote for Hillary Benn, Chuka Umunna, Angela Eagle and Owen Smith, but I would vote for Corbyn if he has the courage to implement a different politics and agenda.

The Labour 172 are arrogant and think they are more popular than Corbyn. They aren't, among Labour members, Corbyn is more popular, and among the public and non-Labour voters, Corbyn is more popular.

Corbyn is a breath of fresh air in our politics, he has the Establishment and their stooges terrified. If I wanted Labour to be "destroyed as a political force" then I wouldn't be supporting the energy and dynamism and new thinking injected into our politics by Corbyn and the Corbynistas. Instead I would support the tired old Labour spinners like Alastair Campbell, Neil Kinnock, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Ed Miliband, Angela Eagle, Hillary Benn and all the rest of the Establishment spinners.