Enough is enough?

Sort of 'if 3 out of the 4 candidates have dropped out because they say we've got anti-Labour people paying £3 to vote, then we've got to suspend the vote and rethink the process'.

The support for Corbyn isn't as great in the members as among the union affiliates or those who paid the £3 to be a 'supporter', and Mandelson presumably thinks limiting the vote could stop Corbyn. However, a poll showed you'd have to restrict it to pre-2010 members before you got someone other than Corbyn to win:





https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/08/10/corbyn-pull-ahead/

The 'powers that be' desperately trying to stop Labour returning to its blue-collar roots, after 20 years of awful Blairism.

Even more reason to get Jeremy Corbyn elected. Power to the people!

They need to stop arguing about who should drop out in favour of who and start making positive arguments about how they will make this country a better place to live.

Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for the Labour leadership looks unstoppable after some genuinely dreadful people came out against him.

Tony Blair was the first truly awful person to really stand up against him.

In a studio interview the former ‘Ugly Rumours’ bassist and war-criminal called for all supporters of Corbyn to have their hearts cut out of their bodies, a strategy it is understood he first planned for all supporters of Gordon Brown during his time as Prime Minister.

This was followed by John McTernan making equally strong comments against Mr Corbyn, which everyone ignored until they remembered that he was chief of Staff to Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy. A man who’s performance in Scotland was worse than Edward the First.

Yesterday Alistair Campbell, or as he’s better known; Satan, recommended the Labour party adopted an ‘Anyone but Corbyn’ strategy, failing to recognise that Ed Miliband was ‘anyone but Corbyn,’ and that could have worked out better.

Jeremy Corbyn’s team are naturally thrilled at this.

“Well, it’s brilliant,” said a Corbyn insider.

“If someone could organise Gordon Brown or Ed Balls to have a go at Jeremy then I don’t think we’d even have to bother campaigning anymore.”

“But we’d probably do it anyway to annoy Tony Blair.”


http://newsthump.com/2015/08/12/corbyn-boost-after-condemnations-from-dreadful-people/

... tells us Labour made the better choice with his brother, the last time around. Kendall only joined parliament in 2010 (standard political thinktank/special adviser career before that). All she's done is be a junior shadow minister, and she disappeared without trace in that role. I just checked a UK political forum, and the only mentions of her before this election were in a list of a hypothetical Labour cabinet (with most shadow ministers in their same roles, like her), and a Labour supporter this February listing the odds on a Miliband successor, with this comment on the also-rans:

apropos.....that I just found. they have some other articles on the election that are humorous

I do think that the attacks have been helpful to Corbyn in many ways - we see the Blairites lining up to demand control of the party for more of their nonsense.

and they seem to be running a 24/7 anti Corbyn-a-thon, The level of vitriol is just plain weird.
They must think he's the second coming of Lenin or something.

...the more the British media gets hysterical about Corbyn, the more his poll numbers rise.

I do actually think that a lot of his policies are a bit wacky, and that he doesn't stand a chance of leading Labour into the next election, much less winning it. However, he's the frontrunner for a reason. Corbyn's 3 Blairite challengers have all run poor campaigns and seem more preoccupied with infighting than offering anything positive.