CORBYNISTAS TIGHTEN GRIP ON LABOUR PARTY WITH "NO CONFIDENCE" VOTES AGAINST RIVALS
The extreme Left-wingers who now dominate Britain's main opposition Labour Party have been working tirelessly to strengthen their grip on the Party by pushing out anyone who doesn't endorse the hard-left politics of leader Jeremy Corbyn.
In the latest cases, one MP decided to quit the Party while remaining in Parliament as an independent, rather than face his local Labour Party where Corbynistas had the upper hand.
Then just the other night (6th September), two anti-Corbyn Labour MPs lost votes of "No Confidence" tabled by their local Labour parties.
As reported by the BBC:
Two Labour MPs who lost no-confidence votes among local party members have told constituents they will not quit. Former minister Joan Ryan, MP for Enfield North, blamed the 94-92 vote defeat on "Trots, Stalinists, Communists and assorted hard-left".
Luton South MP Gavin Shuker said he was "sorry a handful of people" wanted to overturn his 2017 win. Both are among MPs to have criticised Jeremy Corbyn and faced no confidence votes in their local parties.
Others include Frank Field, who quit the parliamentary party last week citing the handling of the anti-Semitism row and bullying in local constituency parties, Kate Hoey, who has voted with the government on Brexit, and another Brexit-backing Labour MP Graham Stringer, who won his no confidence vote.
What we are seeing here is the same kind of centralizing tendency -- combined with extreme intolerance for "dissidents" -- that the Bolshevik Party showed in the years immediately after the Russian Revolution.
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| MPs Ryan and Shuker, marked for destruction by the hard Left. |
Joan Ryan, the main target of the Corbynistas, is the chair of the Labour Friends of Israel group, and has been at the center of the opposition to Corbyn. While she narrowly lost her vote by 94 to 92 votes, her ally Shuker was completely wiped out, losing 33 to 3, with 5 abstentions.
This is probably connected to the fact that his South Luton constituency is heavily Muslim, and that he appeared on the BBC current affairs program Newsnight a few nights before the vote and heavily criticised Corbyn.
As reported by the Daily Express:
This is probably connected to the fact that his South Luton constituency is heavily Muslim, and that he appeared on the BBC current affairs program Newsnight a few nights before the vote and heavily criticised Corbyn.
As reported by the Daily Express:
Appearing on the late-night political show, Gavin Shuker, Labour MP for Luton South, criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and told BBC presenter Emily Maitlis that in the autumn, Labour could face a mass resignation.
When asked if he was happy with his position in the Labour party or if it has become increasingly difficult to hold on to that Mr Shuker said: “It is increasingly difficult, not just for me but for many other colleagues.”
Emily Maitlis then highlighted veteran Labour MP Frank Field’s recent resignation over the anti-semitism row, and asked Mr Shuker why he and his colleagues don’t follow his lead since they feel in the same way. He said: “I think this autumn will answer the question for many.”
Additionally, Mr Shuker noted that because of the lack of leadership shown by Jeremy Corbyn, the anti-semitism question will come up again. He said: “Actions are important but the instincts are too. And this situation will come up again. The instincts of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader and potentially future Prime Minister are in doubt when it comes to the actions in this case.”
Although the UK media has been reporting the division in the Labour Party as the result of disagreements over Israel and concerns over "Anti-Semitism," this appears to be fake news.
The Labour Party's ruling body, the Corbynista-controlled National Executive Council (NEC) recently adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definitions and examples of "Anti-Semitism," which is exactly what the pro-Zionists in the Party were pushing for.
The Labour Party's ruling body, the Corbynista-controlled National Executive Council (NEC) recently adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definitions and examples of "Anti-Semitism," which is exactly what the pro-Zionists in the Party were pushing for.
The real story here is that the anti-Semitism issue was just a proxy issue that the Center Leftists and Blairites in the Party latched onto in a forlorn attempt to stop the growing power of the Hard Left within the Party.
Even though the "Anti-Semitism" issue is a dead letter, the Hard Left is still mobilising its forces against those who revealed their hand during the controversy by taking sides against Corbyn.
Even though the "Anti-Semitism" issue is a dead letter, the Hard Left is still mobilising its forces against those who revealed their hand during the controversy by taking sides against Corbyn.
Although "No Confidence" votes have no power to remove a sitting MP, they are the accepted way to prepare for a "trigger ballot," by which a sitting Labour MP can be forced to fight a US-style primary against all comers. This is clearly what the Corbynistas intend to do here.
With the Blairites and Centrists being gradually sidelined and ousted from the Party, the pressure is growing on them to form a breakaway Party. In fact the Party would probably be in the process of splitting in two right now if it had not been for the constant distraction provided by the final months of the Brexit negotiations.
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