{"id":180065,"date":"2017-07-25T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/25\/cue-new-labour-whining\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:54:00","slug":"cue-new-labour-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/25\/cue-new-labour-whining\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue New Labour Whining"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Corbyn has been saying that local constituencies should be able to select candidates by themselves, and the New Labour MPs who have been trying to overthrow him are having a freakout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First, if you shoot at the king, don’t miss, second, if your local constituency hates your flabby white ass, it’s your own fault:<\/p>\n

Jeremy Corbyn has opened the door to deselections of MPs critical of his leadership, by saying that it is a matter for local parties.<\/span>

<\/span>The Labour leader was asked about local activists’ threats to overthrow Labour MPs they see as hostile to him.<\/span>

<\/span>Mr Corbyn told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show: “I don’t quite see why people should go to the party leader and say we want to influence what is happening in a constituency.<\/span>

<\/span>“The whole point of a democracy is that people decide.”<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>The Labour leader was asked about reports that Tony Blair had personally intervened to prevent him being deselected by activists in his Islington North constituency when he was a backbencher.<\/span>

<\/span>Hilary Armstrong, who served as chief whip for five years of Mr Blair’s premiership, recalled in an interview how Mr Corbyn’s constituents had expressed concern that he was a serial rebel – voting against his party some 500 times – and tried to have him removed.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>Talk of mandatory reselection of MPs was rife last year in areas where Momentum, the group of Corbyn supporters, was strong in local parties.<\/span>

<\/span>But Theresa May’s decision to call an election at short notice meant the idea had to be dropped, and sitting MPs allowed to stand again.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>Mr Corbyn said in 2015 when he became leader: “I wish to make it absolutely crystal clear that I do not support any changes to Labour’s rules to make it easier to deselect sitting Labour MPs.”<\/span>

<\/span>But last year, following a wave of resignations from his frontbench, he backed a “full and open selection process” in every seat.<\/span>

<\/span>Under the current rules, MPs can already be deselected if they lose a “trigger ballot” of the local party and affiliated groups.<\/span>

<\/span>The Labour leader’s allies have called for a change in the rules, such as a requirement that 75% of members must support an MP for them to be reselected.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Blairites are terrified because they realize that they are about as popular as a case of the clap, and if reselection (basically a local party caucus) were made routine, a lot of them would lose their jobs.<\/p>\n

My heart bleeds borscht for those back-stabbing ratf%$#s.<\/p>\n

They were actively trying to sabotage Labour in the last election in an attempt to take Corbyn down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Corbyn has been saying that local constituencies should be able to select candidates by themselves, and the New Labour MPs who have been trying to overthrow him are having a freakout. First, if you shoot at the king, don’t miss, second, if your local constituency hates your flabby white ass, it’s your own fault: …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,371,374,486],"class_list":["post-180065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}