Well done Labour NEC - Corbyn can stand

'But he's not interested in democracy'

The 172 cared so much for democracy, they wanted Corbyn to be excluded from the leadership contest. The whole public is watching this spectacle and thinking does anyone listen to the members and the people or is it a club where the Establishment knows best.

'But he's not interested in democracy, at least not when he's in charge.'

No he doesn't. He has bent over backwards to accommodate Hillary Benn and the stooges who have sniped against him and even insulted from day one, who have openly criticised him on TV and not kept their criticisms private. They have harmed the image of the Labour Party because they have made it look like a shower with lots of MPs having no faith in the leader voted in in a landslide by the members.

Corbyn wants members to be able to vote on policies, to reinstate conference voting etc, to bring members into policy decision making to reflect the views of ordinary people rather than just the Establishment MPs. That is real democracy where the members get a say in what the policies are.

'who are vastly outnumbered by the general public and Labour voters'

The Labour Party is the party of its members and should reflect their wishes and then argue for those in a united fashion to the public. The public wants a better health service, it wants more and cheaper housing, it wants more investment in job creation, it wants fewer Iraqs, Libyas and Syrias, it wants better education. If teh members decide, then there will be real socialist policies rather than the Tory-lite ones which were meant to appeal to Sun readers.

'I'm afraid that Corbyn can not control 'his' party, It is not 'his' party to control.'

This is what the election is all about. The 172 are challenging the leader who has the largest mandate in UK history, who was voted in in a landslide just 10 months ago and who has increased membership in a time of political apathy to levels not seen for decades, and who leads a party that had 183,000 join in one day, more than the entire conservative party membership and whose rallies are packed out, whereas even the BBC's Norman Smith was nowhere to be seen at Angela Eagle's leadership challenge announcement.

The reason this election is important for all of us (not just Labour voters) is because it shows what lengths teh Establishment will go to to remove a leader with the largest popular mandate in UK history and a man who has reinvigorated socialist politics and enthused young people. If the Establishment win, it is business as usual, if Corbyn wins, the people and democracy win.

As this article says

"Jeremy Corbyn And The People Versus The Media

In future history classrooms, students will likely be told the tale of the tag-team assault on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn by the mainstream media and MPs. It will be taught as a harbinger of what is erupting into the most pivotal crisis facing Western politics in half a century: the chasm between ordinary people and the elites. We are seeing it with the Republican establishment’s failed efforts to derail the Trump train and the Democratic establishment’s more successful efforts to extinguish the Bern.
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These platforms have become stages upon which a rebuff is occurring, one as embarrassing to the MsM as the leadership vote. Article after article, Youtube video after video produced by the MsM touts the official talking points proclaiming Corbyn and other Left figures’ incompetence, bigotry, unpopularity etc. In every one of these, however, a quick scroll down to the comments section reveals hundreds of real people, almost exclusively saying the opposite of what the article/video instructed them to think."

www.huffingtonpost.com/kadira-pethiyagoda/jeremy-corbyn--the-people_b_11048424.html

And as Kevin McKenna said

"Kevin McKenna: Why the powers that be fear Jeremy Corbyn

Words like "unedifying" and "unpleasant" don’t even begin to describe the campaign that the British establishment have undertaken to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Try "sinister" and "malevolent" and "venomous" instead. Yet, when you assess the nature of the forces which are lined up against him and then observe how his very name brings them to a point where they begin to boil and froth, then you know Mr Corbyn must be a good man."

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Go Corbyn! For democracy and the people.

'if you really believe Oxbridge is the most important in political circles now I am afraid you are mistaken'

I don't think they are important. I think they are promoted because they come from Oxford, that is all.

Yes, the LSE was the Fabians' creation and doubtless the think tanks and advisers contain many people from there, but the front figures are mainly from Oxford with a PPE, whether Labour or Tory.

'think there are other forces such as the shift in public opinion'

There has been a huge shift in public opinion, an anti-establishment mood that has taken the elites by surprise. Their spin has failed to work against it and the "Corbyn bully" line is just more of their failed spin.

Are there any polls of the public comparing Corbyn to Blair, or Angela Eagle or Hillary Benn or Owen? I am sure that Corbyn woud win them all.

'We are not in a position or have inclination to make sweeping social change not now, not yet.*'

That is what the Establishment thought but then the people voted Brexit. The mood of the public has changed. The tired old Establishment spinners invited onto the BBC no longer influence most people. That's why we had Brexit and that is why Corbyn could be next if he is strong enough to control his party.

Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh-wen

Owen was on TV today and they fed him an entry into today's "Corbyn bully" story and he declined to go for it. Even Owen is beginning to realise that all this talk of Corbyn bullying the 172 is backfiring with the public.

So it looks like Corbyn wants to switch the message and go for the thing that makes Corbyn so popular with Labour members and the general public (including non Labour voters) - his principles.

"Owen Smith says Jeremy Corbyn's principles are 'just hot air'
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"He's a principled man and someone who has got deep Labour values, but our question is 'can he take the Labour party to where we need to be?'

"Because without winning elections, without Labour being a serious party of government again, then all the principles are just hot air."

He added: "What's the point of being in this game?"

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/owen-smith-jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-government-general-election-conservative-party-a7153371.html

It sounds like Owen is ready to throw the towel in. He has only been in the "game" since 2010 when he became an MP and he is laready questioning the "point" of the "game". Will he go back to Pfizer? He can't do that, he is the 172's last hope.

Owen has been an MP since 2010 and thinks he can do a better job than Corbyn who has been an MP since before Noah built the ark, and has been a socialist all that time while Owen was at Pfizer.

A Corbyn rally is jam-packed with enthususiastic socialists and there is no such thing as an Owen rally - instead it is a man from Pfizer and his dog, 3 Oxbridge graduates and a senior Establishmentarian taking notes on Owen's diction and hand gesture performance. While Corbyn rails about Cuba, Iraq and Venezuela, Owen wonders what the point of being in the "game" is.

I don't know what the odds are, but I don't fancy the 172's chances.