Well done Labour NEC - Corbyn can stand

[claig]

They have voted 18-14 to allow Corbyn to stand in the leadership election.

One less stitch-up in a season os stitch-ups.

Go Corbyn!

[TheNaze73]

This is such a funny thread

[milkysmum]

I am behind Corbyn 100%

[lljkk]

Oh ffs, suicide song of the Labour Party. Can't Stand Corbyn. His election was enough to convince me I didn't want to be a Labour party member, any more.

[freshmint]

If 178 MPs leave labour and join the lib dems the labour won't even be in opposition any more and they will get out from under the union yoke.

They would have 4 years before the next election to reconcile their voters to the change. Some would then lose their seats of course but many would retain them as lib dems. Probably more than would retain their seats as labour under a loony corbyn-led election.

Must be tempting.

[claig]

People are laughing at Corbyn and ruling him out too soon. Corbyn's main strength is he actually believes in something unlike the rest of the Establishment career ladder climbers.

Churchill won the war, but was then surprisingly defeated by Labour's Atlee because the people wanted a new direction.

Corbyn's rise is just another example of the anti-establishment mood of the British people, they want something new, no more self-serving spinners and Establishment mouthpieces.

"With Theresa May in charge, Labour needs Jeremy Corbyn more than ever

Whatever your opinion of the Labour leader, he has given people something to believe in.
...
With Theresa May’s promotion to Prime Minister, it is clear that the Labour party needs the policies and principles of Jeremy Corbyn more than ever. Stripped of the centre-left rhetoric and moral façade, May’s platform is one of division. While the country craves unity it is being offered the same old unworkable solutions to growing problems. The political arena looks more distant from the lives of normal people than ever before. Whether it is the selection of a new Prime Minister by 60 per cent of a parliamentary party or the lynch mob chasing after Corbyn, the public face of UK politics has been seriously discredited
...
While I have felt depressed in recent weeks, hearing Corbyn’s speech to the Durham miner’s gala last week lifted my spirits. In response to questions about him being under pressure he replied: "Real pressure is when you don’t have enough money to feed your kids, when you don’t have a roof over your head, when you are wondering if you are going to be cared for." Hearing that reminded me of the politics I used to believe in.

Whatever your opinion of the Labour leader, he has certainly given people something to believe in. His supporters are passionate and determined to protect his democratic mandate. It is encouraging that such a passion for principled politics exists. Today, dirty and underhand tactics will be employed in an attempt to keep Corbyn from the Labour leadership ballot. I am confident that the principled politics I feared dead will be victorious."

www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/07/theresa-may-charge-labour-needs-jeremy-corbyn-more-ever

Corbyn is starting to fight, he is starting to smile, he is making jokes, he looks confident, he is elated, he radiates enthusiasm as do his supporters. Corbyn could trounce May if he can control his party.

[Lucked]

Unfortunately I think Corbyn should stand, because him not standing would cause a shit storm. I have given him a chance for a year and I am completely underwhelmed. Where has he been and as a remain voter I am livid with him over Brexit.

I can only hope he loses the vote but I am nervous. Very nervous.

Eagle wouldn't be my choice but I am taking an anyone but Corbyn stance. If the next election isn't for four years there is time for a stronger leader to appear. If Corbyn looses he will never get back on the ballot.

[LazyCake]

People are laughing at Corbyn and ruling him out too soon. Absolutely.

Establishment MPs claim that he has no appeal because they do not understand his appeal. They call him a bad communicator because he uses new media and online campaign networks to get the message out, rather than relying on the TV networks and tabloid newspapers that did for Miliband. Jeremy Corbyn has more than half a million followers on Twitter, which puts Angela Eagle and the other rebel MPs in the shade.

Choosing Angela Eagle to head-up the coup shows just how deluded the rebels are. Eagle cannot even carry her own constituency, let alone the country. Having come fourth in the Deputy Leader election last summer, I do not understand why they think she will do any better this time.

In my view, it is Angela Eagle who represents an old, out-dated politics. She voted for the Iraq war, for ID cards, for 90 days detention, for student tuition fees, while abstaining on Tory welfare cuts and even speaking out against the living wage. The idea that she can bring meaningful change is risible.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/angela-eagle-policies-voting-record-iraq-welfare-cuts-vote-syria-trident-tuition-fees-snoop-marriage-a7111696.html

I won't hesitate to vote for Corbyn.

[evelynj]

Huzzah! I love him.

[claig]

LazyCake you are 100% right. very good point that the Establishment MPs don't understand Corbyn's appeal - they are on a different planet, the BBC mainstream TV planet that helps them sell messages and tries to do Corbyn down.

He was 100-1 outsider and beat the lot of them with all their media help and supporters. They can't understand the new world where the people are no longer fooled by the Establishment and their media, where they ignored Cameron, Osborne, the IMF and the Bank of England and still voted Brexit.

[lljkk]

I agree with Claig about the different planet part.

Corbyn is a vile self-centered eogtist. As corrupted by power as anyone ever was.

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

But claig, what do you think of his confidence?

[claig]

'what do you think of his confidence?'

I like it, he is getting better. He used to be constrained by trying to please and placate the 172 Establishment entryists who stitched him up at every turn, but now he is free and knows he has the support of the members against them.

[LazyCake]

When Corbyn became leader in 2015, the Labour Party had not won an election for more than 10 years. It was unelectable, that is simply a fact. Now we have the unedifying spectacle of the likes of Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband and even Neil Kinnock lecturing Corbyn on how to win general elections.

They've lost the plot. I agree with claig, the old guard was taken unawares by Brexit, and they might just be taken awares by the new movement that is building behind Corbyn.

[claig]

There will be lots of Tories and Kippers and LibDems and of course Labour supporters who have gained great respect for Corbyn in his battle against the 172 because it is a battle for democracy, for the people and the members against the 172 Establishment mouthpieces.

Tricks and scares to try and get us to vote Remain, tricks to get Leadstrom out of the race and not allow the Tory members to vote and on the day when the 172 hoped they could stop Labour members being able to vote for Corbyn, press stories about bricks through windows and linking it to what they call "Corbyn supporters".

Corbyn represents democracy, he represents the people, including non-Labour voters.

Go Corbyn and the Corbynistas.

[LazyCake]

Corbyn represents democracy. YY to this.

I happen to disagree with some of what Corbyn stands for, but I'll be voting for him as I am sick of being spoken down to and patronised by politicians who think the British electorate can be managed as though it were a foolish and recalcitrant child.

[lordStrange]

I vote for Corbyn.

I am sick of the lies and smokescreens of nearly every single politician I see on telly. I no longer believe any of them.

Corbyn has become a natural and impressive speaker.

[BeJayKayven]

Great news for the tories!

[Jermajesty]

As a Labour Party member I am utterly disgusted that the PLP are disregarding what we voted for just nine months ago. This is yet another example of the contempt most MPs seem to feel for the electorate they apparently serve. What they fail to recognise is that in Corbyn we see a politician we can actually trust, instead of the usual self-serving, patronising bunch of arseholes we are generally presented with. Go Corbyn.

[FeckArseIndustries]

Yay! The MPs need to wind their neck in when he's voted in again, like they should have the first time, bunch of self-serving arses.

[lordStrange]

I'm not sure it is such great news for the tories

[BeJayKayven]

I am 😀

[jellybeans]

I am voting Corbyn again and am disgusted by the actions of the coup. Every other member I know (lots) are also voting Corbyn.

[HirplesWithHaggis]

Any comments on the NEC decision to disenfranchise over 100,000 Labour party members?

[stonecircle]

I'm disappointed! Having joined the Labour Party this week for the express purpose of voting against Corbyn.

Anyone can talk about tackling poverty, improving the NHS etc. But it's all froth - does he ever actually spell out what his policies are for achieving these things?