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Jeremy
Corbyn loses 'no confidence' vote among Labour MPs by 172 to 40
The
embattled Labour leader has been hit by a wave of resignations
28
June, 2016
Jeremy
Corbyn has lost a no-confidence vote among Labour MPs.
The
party’s parliamentarians voted 172 to 40 against Mr Corbyn’s
leadership in a secret ballot on Tuesday afternoon. There were four
spoilt ballots in the contest, while 13 MPs did not vote.
Mr
Corbyn immediately responded to the vote by saying he would not
resign, suggesting to do so would be a "betrayal" of the
members who elected him by a landslide last year.
Labour
confirmed its MPs had adopted the motion: "That this PLP has no
confidence in Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Parliamentary Labour
Party."
Mr
Corbyn said: “In the aftermath of last week’s referendum, our
country faces major challenges. Risks to the economy and living
standards are growing. The public is divided.
“The
Government is in disarray. Ministers have made it clear they have no
exit plan, but are determined to make working people pay with a new
round of cuts and tax rises.
“Labour
has the responsibility to give a lead where the Government will not.
We need to bring people together, hold the Government to account,
oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs
and incomes.
“To
do that we need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our
party nine months ago, we have repeatedly defeated the Government
over its attacks on living standards.
“Last
month, Labour become the largest party in the local elections. In
Thursday’s referendum, a narrow majority voted to leave, but two
thirds of Labour supporters backed our call for a remain vote.
“I
was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of
politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not
betray them by resigning. Today’s vote by MPs has no constitutional
legitimacy.
“We
are a democratic party, with a clear constitution. Our people need
Labour party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite behind my
leadership at a critical time for our country.”
The
motion was formally proposed by MPs Margaret Hodge and Anne Coffey at
a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday evening.
Mr
Corbyn has been hit by a wave of dozoens of resignations since last
weekend, with his internal critics saying he should stand down.
Key
criticisms include the suggestion he could not win a general
election, and that he did not campaign hard enough for Britain to
remain in the EU.
He
was elected last September in a first-round landslide of Labour
members and supporters in a leadership election to replace Ed
Miliband.
Mr
Corbyn has however never had much support in the Parliamentary Labour
Party, gaining only 36 nominations when he stood in the original
contest.
If
the Labour leader does not choose to stand down voluntarily, a
candidate to challenge him will have to be chosen by plotters seeking
to replace him
Labour crisis: Jeremy Corbyn refuses to resign after losing confidence of 172 MPs as Angela Eagle eyes up leadership challenge
The Labour Party traitors really wanted Corbyn out of the way before the Chilcot report is discussed in Parliament
It’s
Still the Iraq War, Stupid.
https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/the-labour-party-traitors-really-wanted-corbyn-out-of-the-way-before-the-chilcot-report-is-discussed-in-parliament/
By Craig Murray | June 26, 2016
No
rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the
Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with
such precipitate haste?
The
answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and though
its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment
whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible
beneath. Corbyn had deferred to Blairite pressure not to apologise on
behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq War until Chilcot is
published.
For
the Labour Right, the moment when Corbyn as Labour leader stands up
in parliament and condemns Blair over Iraq, is going to be as
traumatic as it was for the hardliners of the Soviet Communist Party
when Khruschev denounced the crimes of Stalin. It would also destroy
Blair’s carefully planned post-Chilcot PR strategy. It
is essential to the Blairites that when Chilcot is debated in
parliament in two weeks time, Jeremy Corbyn is not in place as Labour
leader to speak in the debate.
The Blairite plan is therefore for the parliamentary party to depose
him as parliamentary leader
and get speaker John Bercow to acknowledge someone else in that
fictional position in time for the Chilcot debate, with Corbyn
remaining leader in the country but with no parliamentary status.
Yes,
they are that nuts.
If
the fault line for the Tories is Europe, for Labour it is the Middle
East. Those opposing Corbyn are defined by their enthusiasm for
bombing campaigns that kill Muslim children. And not only by the UK.
Both of the first two to go, Hilary Benn and Heidi Alexander, are
hardline supporters of Israel.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn told a Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) lunch yesterday that relations with Israel must be based on cooperation and rejected attempts to isolate the country.
Addressing senior party figures in Westminster, Benn praised Israel for its “progressive spirit, vibrant democracy, strong welfare state, thriving free press and independent judiciary.” He also called Israel “an economic giant, a high-tech centre, second only to the United States. A land of innovation and entrepreneurship, venture capital and graduates, private and public enterprise.”
Consequently, said Benn, “Our future relations must be built on cooperation and engagement, not isolation of Israel. We must take on those who seek to delegitimise the state of Israel or question its right to exist.”
Heidi
Alexander actually signed, as a 2015 parliamentary candidate, the “We
Believe in Israel”
charter, the provisions of which state there must be no boycotts of
Israel, and Israel must not be described as an apartheid state.
This
fault line is very well defined. The manufactured row about
“anti-Semitism” in the Labour Party shows exactly the same split.
In my researches, 100% of those who have promoted accusations of
anti-Semitism were supporters of the Iraq War and/or had demonstrable
links to professional pro-Israel lobby groups. 100% of those accused
of anti-Semitism were active opponents of the Iraq War. Never
underestimate the Blairite fury at being shown not just to be liars
but to be wrong. Iraq is their Achilles heel and they are extremely
touchy about it.
No
rational person would believe Brexit was Jeremy Corbyn’s fault. No
rational person would believe that now is a good moment for the
Labour Party to tear itself apart. Extraordinarily, the timing is
determined by Chilcot.
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