So, that Labour Party Election

I feel I’ve made it abundantly clear what side I am on. I think myself a modern day Marat (in fact I suffer from eczema just as he did, it’s an auto-immune disorder that is not at all contagious but psychologically damaging in that you imagine yourself a leper and are frequently treated as such. Fortunately modern medications are much more effective than languishing in a bath all day and you wouldn’t know unless I told you, which I just did). Charlotte Corday is often considered a disaffected Revolutionary by United States history teachers who are lazy and ignorant when she was in fact a Royalist despite her class identification.

What is the matter with Kansas anyway?

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.

Of course, he was born in Switzerland and not French at all.

What to make of Labour, a Party dedicated to Socialist Revolution through peaceful electoral victory? What to make of the coup directed at Corbyn by accessory after the fact War Criminals and Neolib Tory-lite Losers 172 of whom (at least) need to be fired as mere toadies and traitors?

Well, what about the hundreds of thousands of Labour members (60% roughly) who gave Corbyn a mandate only 10 months ago to turn away from Third Way/New Labour policies or the new members (over 100,000, largest Labour Party ever) who have joined to support him? What to make of the fact his Union support is rock solid?

Need I point out Corbyn has never lost a by (non scheduled) election while he is opposed by proven losers? Need I point out that he actually carried that 60% Remain in the Brexit vote and both Cameron and most of his Blairite critics failed in their districts? Need I point out that his chances in a fair, democratic leadership contest are nearly 100%?

Who’s electable?

I concentrate on this particular dynamic because I think it exposes the collapse of the Elite D.C. consensus in the face of the verdict of the voters. We are more than you and without us you are nothing.

None of the anti-Corbyn 172 Labour MPs are on any of our banners
by DAVE HOPPER, Morning Star
July 9th, 2016

What an absolute farce the Labour Party is now witnessing. People like Neil Kinnock, who managed to lose two general elections for Labour, is now being given much time in the media to tell Corbyn to resign. If anybody knows how to lose an election it is the “Welsh windbag.”

Gordon Brown is another adviser on elections. He only had one but he also lost. Exactly the same with Ed Miliband. How dare these losers condemn Corbyn as being unelectable?

These people, who, in the main, lost the vote in their own constituencies to remain in Europe, should really be offering to resign themselves.

Unfortunately their “democracy” is all about self-preservation.

The disgraceful antics of warmonger Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, David Blunkett etc, in my opinion, will only stiffen the resolve of our people to protect Corbyn.

The reason he got such a mandate was that Labour MPs were exposed following the parliamentary expenses scandal and people were determined to teach them a lesson. That lesson now should be used by the membership to deselect these undemocratic, greedy representatives.

These people also appear to forget that party membership figures have gone through the roof under Corbyn.

As Labour go to war, Jeremy Corbyn holds the best cards
By Stephen Bush, The New Statesman
9 July 2016

So it’s war, then. Tom Watson has announced the end of talks about an amicable settlement between Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s rebels.
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The phrase “unity candidate” is an unfortunate codeword for “candidate who no one in the parliamentary party regards as sufficiently formidable to be leader in a decade’s time”.

Wavering supporters of Corbyn want to be inspired – but any candidate impressive enough to do that is unlikely to be acceptable as a “unity” candidate. The candidates who Corbyn would have reason to fear – from talking to members, Keir Starmer is the most lethal, though there are others – cannot run without triggering a full-blown, multi-candidate contest, which the PLP believes would hand victory to Corbyn.

Yeah huh. The Blairites have absolutely no shot at all unless the Unions and their votes on the National Executive Committee keep Corbyn off the ballot.

How “democratic” of the socialist party dedicated to winning at the ballot box.