Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet agrees to Labour peace talks

[Jemmons]

Source: The Grauniad

Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet has agreed to back formal peace negotiations between the warring factions of the Labour party to try to prevent all-out war.

Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, met Corbyn and his deputy leader, Tom Watson, on Tuesday in what some Corbyn loyalists hope will be the first step towards a brokered deal – involving MPs, unions and the party’s national executive committee – that could ensure a dignified exit for the embattled leader.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/05/len-mccluskey-plays-peacemaker-between-corbyn-and-watson

[hrmjustin]

1. I am glad to see they are looking to calm things down and give Corbyn a graceful way out.

[Jemmons]

11. Corbyn was elected with59.5% of the votes, the runner up got 19.0%

So what do you suggest they should tell the voters after they let him down easy?

[hrmjustin]

12. How many people voted in that leadership election?

[Jemmons]

13. If you dont know what you are talking about you might want to make sure that your oppinions

sounds less presumptuous.

[hrmjustin]

16. 251,000 people voted for corbyn in that leadership election.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)_leadership_election,_2015


Over 9 million voted for Labour Party Candidates in the 2015 general election.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2015


Since the elected members think he is a bad leader I think he can tell the people who voted for him that he tried but it didn't work out.

[Jemmons]

17. Which is exactly what the arrogant pricks in the gang of blairites tend to think rather unsurprising

It is this kind of thinking that has made for the chaos that now prevails and which will get a lot worse if there is no improvement between the needs of the population and the way the country is lead.

You have pretty much the same situation in the US where there is no real correlation between voter support and legislation.

But yeah, the opinion of a few elites is what makes the day. I dont see this ending well for the elites though.

[hrmjustin]

18. Well if you want to beat the Blairites you need a stronger candidate for leadership.

[Jemmons]

19. Or maybe you are rather clueless as to what is needed

I dont see any evidence that you have any understanding of what is needed.

[hrmjustin]

20. You have a lovely day.

[Jemmons]

21. Thx

[T_i_B]

23. I don't think people knew then....

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...just how inept he would be as party leader.

[Ash_F]

2. Wasn't he voted in overwhelmingly?

What is the argument for trying to oust him? The article skips that.

[Jemmons]

3. Votes does not count if they are not votes on the elites

It is basically the Blairites who thought they could use the Brexit vote as an excuse for pushing out a democratically elected party leader by staging a no-confidence vote among the labor members of parliament. His response was something like this: Please make an official leaderships contest with a proper vote among the members and have your arses handed to you again. They have now declined doing that.

[Ash_F]

4. Brexit is a pretty vague explanation if that is all they got.

Not a real explanation at all.

[Jemmons]

5. They had that and decorated it with suggestion about results of the next election which they seem

to know more about than anybody else on the planet.

[Ash_F]

6. I would ask them to elaborate

Sounds like they have nothing.

[Jemmons]

7. Yes. 0.0 reason. But pure nothing sold with appeals to fear, authority, tradition and greed will

apparently give you a 50/50 of success. Very few people have any grasp of the way that the "left" have abandoned the bottom 30% of the income scale and sold them on a pack of lies.

[Ash_F]

8. Oh I am sure they have their reasons. They just won't say it publicly.

[Jemmons]

9. What should be obvious to anyone is that this is motivated more than anything by greed for power

I an in the habit of reading "reason" as rational reason, something that you can actually argue rationally. Not sure if greed and strategies for making a undemocratic power grab is a reason in this sense.

The timing - just after the Brexit vote - reflect what they must have seen as an opportunity to make a move at a moment where Corbyn could be painted as a loser.

[Ash_F]

10. Haha, point taken. I guess I should have said "interests"

[Odin2005]

15. Do you think the neoliberal PTB care about pesky democracy?

[T_i_B]

24. Labour's biggest problems are incompetence and infighting

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These were major problems when Corbyn took over, and he has only exacerbated both problems.

This goes way beyond Blairites v Socialists. And there is a real risk of the party splitting if things carry on like this, which would be disastrous.

[Ash_F]

25. How can they make him step down without a vote?

[T_i_B]

26. They've decided against that

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Which is a relief as it would have been disastrous to exclude him from the ballot.

Although the rules for this leadership contest (including suspending party meetings and raising the fee for supporters who wish to vote in the contest from £3 to £25) have pissed off everybody on all wings of the Labour party.

[Ash_F]

27. I mean what are the legal mechanics of making him step down?

There does not appear to be any.

[T_i_B]

28. They obviously can't force him out

At least not without the support of the Trade Unions. Which is why it's come to this.

Personally I just wish that the Labour party would rediscover the whole concept of working as a team.

[Odin2005]

14. So the neoliberal Blairites won their anti-democratic coup. Labour is doomed.

All the working class people over there are going to end up voting for UKIP.

[Jemmons]

22. Oh - nothing is settled now

The blairites have backed down for now, but they have nowhere to go, but to stage another attempt.
Will be interesting time for a while....