Hilary Benn Sacked

[Gromit]

For trying to oust Corbyn.
Corbyn faces no confidence vote of Labour MPs.
It would be funny that Labour are imploding if it wasn't at such a serious time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36632539

The present Labour MPs seem incredibly out of touch with voters. Labour voters voted for Brexit in vast numbers particularly in Labour heartlands, the North East, Wales. Yet they nearly all Labour MPs are pro EU. They don't seemed to learned from their annilation in Scotland, and give voters what they want.

Are the Labour Party finished?

[dannyk13]

Latest on news Seven members of Shadow Cabinet have quit.

[Jackdaw33]

...but dear old Diane is still backing Jez, as is that Thornberry woman.

[jackthehat]

What a topsy-turvy place Westminster is at the moment.

Cameron, a man who was personally in favour of remain, heading a party which substantially wanted out...
Corbyn, a man who was personally in favour of exit, heading a party which substantially wanted to stay...
UKIP having achieved their objectives have pulled their own platform out from under their own feet...
Tim Farron sqeaking his way across our TV screens like a particularly belligerent water-vole....

[dannyk13]

If Corbyn had any love for the Labour Party he should go now before it implodes.

[Jackdaw33]

It is said that if there is a vote of no confidence in Corbyn he will stand again and win. This begs the question, will he get the backing of 35 MPs to get on the ballot this time?

[mikey4444]

Jack....small correction....only a minority of Tory MPs wanted out. The official position of the Party is still pro-EU.

[mikey4444]

danny is right here...Corbyn should go ASAP and allow a vote on his successor.

[Jackdaw33]

Somewhat at odds with previous comments re your leader.

[mikey4444]

Jack...we have to be practical. If he no longer has the confidence to do his job, then there is no point in him staying. Its exactly the same with Cameron.

Westminster needs an effective opposition, and until these wounds are healed, there plainly isn't one. Needs must when the devil drives.

[Jackdaw33]

You cannot compare Corbyn with Cameron. The latter has spit his dummy out; it is not that he has lost the confidence of his party.

[mikey4444]

Really Jack ?

Here on AB, Cameron's name is now mud. The Tory Party are away in the Shires this weekend, sharpening their knives and plotting.

The Tories scalpels are sharper than Labour ones and will get their job done quicker. But Cameron always said that he wouldn't stay until 2020, so he might just as well go now. At least he is honest to admit his faults.

[DTCwordfan]

Benn for leader.

Corbyn has a lot on his shoulders as with the failure to deliver the Remain vote. Out asap

[mikey4444]

DTC...I am not sure he will stand, nor Johnson, my personal favourite.

[DTCwordfan]

Johnson, apparently no - because of what I mentioned earlier.

[Togo]

It is pretty obvious that the "career" politicians who do me me me with their hands up with an answer, are not in it for conviction. The creepy gits are in it for themselves. They have long deserved a damn good "kicking". I would not trust one of the stabrads (anag). Until they carry out the wishes of the voters who gild their lives with a big fat X, they need to be assured that retribution is harder for them than contribution. They see an election to office as their passport to a cosy little club, with no responsibility. Blair's legacy. His wickedness still pervades the corridors of conscience. Not that he or his followers and acolytes have one. Pah. Hilary Benn ( not my cup of poison) has more honour than the pile of schitt he must be happy to cleanse himself of.

[mikey4444]

DTC....I may have missed what you said earlier....do you have a link to Johnson that would give doubt about his character and suitability for Leadership ?

[ichkeria]

Labour imploded when it voted Corbyn as leader. There was nothing anyone could do about it at the time because you had to give the man a chance, especially as he had won by such an overwhelming margin.
But while he may be a man of integrity, he has proved an absolutely useless leader. Embarrassing in fact. The EU referendum campaign was the last straw, and it's given the PLP and the shadow cabinet the long-awaited opportunity to act. The problem is not that Labour MPS are out of touch with voters: it's that they do not see eye to eye with many party members (and that is hardly surprising anyway given that many of them are returnees from the political wilderness who paid £3 to have their say) and the party members seem to inhabit a cloud cuckoo land in which they imagine Jezza is speaking for the "traditional labour voter". The voter they think they mean is now more likely to vote UKIP and they are not going to be impressed by the Labour leader disregarding their fears on immigration.
I watched bemused earlier as the hapless Dawn Foster of the Guardian was eaten alive (metaphorically speaking) by Adam Boulton of Sky as she tried to claim that Corbyn was the man to lead Labour to victory in the forthcoming election

[ichkeria]

It looks, in fact, as though accusations that certain members of Corbyn's team sabotaged their Remain campaign may be true

[anneasquith]

DTC. What prevents Alan Johnson from running as leader, you me tioned " skeletons in his cupboard"" ?

[DTCwordfan]

now 11 gone, I believe.....that must be nearly a half of the shadow cabinet - not sustainable now.

Mikey, someone yesterday was referring to AJ having a BJ reputation and not wanting to put it on the line....fair enough, as I don't think that the Tory grandees will accept his promiscuities when push comes to babies.