Thread: Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn will be automatically included on the ballot in Labour's leadership contest, the party's National Executive Committee has ruled.
His opponents had said he needed the support of 51 MPs or MEPs to stand.
Mr Corbyn said he was "delighted" with the result of the meeting of the NEC, which also imposed restrictions on who could vote in the contest.
His challenger, former shadow minister Angela Eagle, said she welcomed the contest and was "determined to win".
The secret NEC vote went 18-14 in the Labour leader's favour following hours of talks.
A Labour Party spokesman said: "The NEC has agreed that as the incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn will go forward onto the ballot without requiring nominations from the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) and the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP).
"All other leadership candidates will require nominations from 20% of the PLP and EPLP."
Only those who joined Labour on or before 12 January will be able to vote in the leadership contest.
Anyone who joined after then will have to pay an extra £25 to become a "registered supporter" - and will get a two-day window in which to do so.
Speaking outside the meeting, Mr Corbyn told a crowd of journalists and supporters: "So I'm on the ballot paper... and we will be campaigning on all the things that matter.
"The inequality and poverty that exists in this country, the need to end the privatisation of our National Health Service, the need to give real hope and opportunity to young people all across this country...
"That will strengthen our party in order to defeat this Tory government and bring in a government that cares for the people."
He said he was sure Labour MPs "will understand that the party has to come together... to present to the British people the options of a different and better way of doing things".
"I have been elected last year - ten months ago today - with a very large mandate," he said.
"I respect that mandate, it's a responsibility I am carrying out."
'Democracy prevails'
The Labour leader made a last-minute decision to attend the emergency meeting of the NEC in London.
He had been due to address the Unite union conference in Brighton on Tuesday afternoon.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, a key ally of Mr Corbyn, said on Twitter: "Jeremy on the ballot. Democracy prevails. We will use leadership election to sign up even more members and prepare ground for general election."
And shadow secretary of state for defence Clive Lewis said the rules showed "quite clearly he should have been on the ballot" and said he would be supporting Mr Corbyn.
But Lance Price, a former Labour director of communications, warned there was still the potential for the party to split.
"I wouldn't say this is the death knell of the Labour Party - it's not - but it means we are entering very difficult dark days ahead," he said.
The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was highly likely that the Labour Party itself would challenge the decision in the courts.
Former shadow business secretary Ms Eagle - who has already secured 51 nominations from MPs - has been calling for Mr Corbyn to resign for days.
She said she had eventually decided to launch a formal challenge because he was unwilling to stand down and she could provide the real leadership he could not.
Reacting to the vote on Tuesday night, Ms Eagle said: "I'm glad the NEC has come to a conclusion. I welcome the contest ahead and I am determined to win it."
Mr Corbyn was elected as leader overwhelmingly in a vote of Labour members and registered supporters last year.
But following the EU referendum, he was hit by mass walkouts from the shadow cabinet and shadow ministerial positions in protest at his leadership.
Labour's former work and pensions spokesman Owen Smith has said he would consider making a rival leadership challenge.

Jeremy Corbyn wins vote on Labour leadership rules - BBC News



More than 100,000 new Labour Party members must pay a £25 fee to take part in the upcoming leadership election vote.

The decision by Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) has caused outrage among Jeremy Corbyn's supporters who have interpreted it to be another attack on his leadership.

There are, however, a number of ways to avoid the fee, which currently is an obstacle to around 20 per cent of the membership who joined the party after 12 January.

Firstly, people can join the Unite union as a community member, paying 50p a week until becoming an affiliate member by 8 August.

This would allow members or anyone interested, including students and the unemployed, to vote in the upcoming election.

Secondly, if you are black, Asian or belong to an ethnic minority, you would be eligible to vote in the election after paying £5 for a two-year membership of BAME Labour.

If you are LGBT, you could gain a say in the leadership election if you join LGBT Labour for £8 a year.

Alternatively, you could join Scientists for Labour for a concession rate of £5 to vote.

Labour membership numbers are thought to have reached around half a million, more than the 405,000 it reached during the high point of Tony Blair's premiership.

Mr Corbyn has been allowed by the NEC to stand in the party's leadership election without needing to secure 51 nominations from Labour MPs or MEPs.

Labour leadership contest: How you can vote without paying the £25 fee | UK Politics | News | The Independent

This new batch of latecoming marxists only had to pay £3 to join the Jeremy Jerk fest so it's only right to stop the deluge from overwhelming decent Labour voters of getting their party back on track if that is at all possible.
Angela Eagle wants to lead their party and the country, what a fucking joke i couldn't see her running a market stall so i dont think the Tories need panic just yet.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Where does it say that? Tell me, did it ever actually occur to you to READ the post before commenting on it? It's not even as if it's a very long post.

The big influx of joiners was only down to the £3 sign up, i live in Liverpool so maybe your lefties aren't up to speed as the deluded around me are and Yes i read the whole post.

Originally Posted by dobella

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Where does it say that? Tell me, did it ever actually occur to you to READ the post before commenting on it? It's not even as if it's a very long post.

The big influx of joiners was only down to the £3 sign up, i live in Liverpool so maybe your lefties aren't up to speed as the deluded around me are and Yes i read the whole post.

You said "new batch" of £3 joiners. What new batch? Did you mean old batch? And how does that negate the fact that he was voted leader by a large majority of the long-term membership? Do you have a problem with democracy?

He's Pol Pot's Son"




Into the fields boys and girls, into the fields!

Originally Posted by Mathos

He's Pol Pot's Son"




Into the fields boys and girls, into the fields!

Are you seriously comparing Jeremy Corbyn with one of the worst mass-murderers in history? Why? What is it you think Corbyn stands for that makes him so like a man who slaughtered millions of his fellows?

One of Labour's biggest donors has announced he will legally challenge the party's decision to allow Jeremy Corbyn onto the leadership ballot without seeking nominations.

Michael Foster, whose family has given £400,000 to the Labour Party, said he was concerned over the "apparent manipulation" of party rules by the ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC).



Labour leadership election: Major party donor mounts legal action against Jeremy Corbyn ruling | UK Politics | News | The Independent

Not very democratic at all. I'm starting to think that the Labour Party is too much of a snagged anchor and that they would be better off starting a new party free from the corruption and sleaze.

Jerk off Jeremy will go down in history for destroying a Labour party that years ago was proud and sound and now he has lost it through his dreams of his youth with Che posters and fucking Dianne Abbot who is one of the very few sticking with him, maybe there is a book to come.
80% of his elected members want him gone and some knobhead up on this thread said
do i understand democracy ?

What's undemocratic and criminal is selling £4.5 million worth of memberships and not allowing them to vote!

Chitty, all their members from before the influx of the £3 entry are eligible - Jan. so it is not stopping their long term loyal folk but just these Corbyn 'johnie come lately' anarchists that will smash into anything resembling stability.
£4.5 million ?, i need to check that out.

Originally Posted by dobella

johnie come lately' anarchists

Eh? They were Marxists a few minutes ago

Originally Posted by dobella

Jerk off Jeremy will go down in history for destroying a Labour party that years ago was proud and sound and now he has lost it through his dreams of his youth with Che posters and fucking Dianne Abbot who is one of the very few sticking with him, maybe there is a book to come.
80% of his elected members want him gone and some knobhead up on this thread said
do i understand democracy ?

80% of the elected members? What percentage is that of the party membership? What percentage of the party voted for him? You understand democracy about as well as you understand mathematics or punctuation.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

The statistics from the last leadership vote showed that a majority of long-standing members voted for him.

That's some majority.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by DrB0b

The statistics from the last leadership vote showed that a majority of long-standing members voted for him.

That's some majority.

Bloody hell. Yet another TD member with reading difficulties. What is it about Thailand that it has such an attraction for the dregs of Britain.?

Originally Posted by dobella

Jerk off Jeremy will go down in history for destroying a Labour party that years ago was proud and sound

Phoney Tony managed that, and now there is no real Labour Party. The split between the Labour party membership and most Labour MP's is obvious- so who exactly are these MP's representing?

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Michael Foster, whose family has given £400,000 to the Labour Party, said he was concerned over the "apparent manipulation" of party rules

eh?

Was he trying to be ironic ?

If I remember correctly this man took a convicted IRA bomber on a tour of parliament,as someone who has had friends and family murdered by this scum I find this weedy little bastard offensive to say the least! typical lefty turd.

^ you must really hate the Queen then.

Corbyn is as divisive as Marmite. The membership seem to like him but Labour MP's don't. Are these the same out of touch MP's who are ignoring the referendum result because they disagree with it?
D'Abbott the Hutt is painting herself into a corner over unrequited love.

Nice sideshow Labour party

An honest man who can't be corrupted.
Corbyn was anti EU for decades, then he gets a plum job in U.K. Parliment with an offer of a future like Blairs and Kinnock in the EU, a fat pension for life.
He switched sides.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by Mathos

He's Pol Pot's Son"




Into the fields boys and girls, into the fields!

Are you seriously comparing Jeremy Corbyn with one of the worst mass-murderers in history? Why? What is it you think Corbyn stands for that makes him so like a man who slaughtered millions of his fellows?

Corbyn's henchmen, thugs and bully-boys are at this very moment terrorising local executives up and down the country Bob.
T'was ever thus, the Militant Tendency are a disease that infected this ghastly redundant party years ago and still the pus oozes out.

The only hope left for the Parliamentary Labour Party is that someone kills the useless, sclerotic old fucker.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by dobella

Jerk off Jeremy will go down in history for destroying a Labour party that years ago was proud and sound

Phoney Tony managed that, and now there is no real Labour Party. The split between the Labour party membership and most Labour MP's is obvious- so who exactly are these MP's representing?

Yeah but Phoney Tony's Gov got elected 3 times as "New labour" maybe that was the reason why eh?

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

the Militant Tendency

Keeps the Labour Party honest. But only within the capitalist paradigm of loyal opposition to the establishment.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

The only hope left for the Parliamentary Labour Party...

There is no hope without Corbyn. The working class constituency of Labour voted Brexit, Corbyn's implicit vote for exit is the only thing stemming a massive loss of members.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by Mathos

He's Pol Pot's Son"




Into the fields boys and girls, into the fields!

Are you seriously comparing Jeremy Corbyn with one of the worst mass-murderers in history? Why? What is it you think Corbyn stands for that makes him so like a man who slaughtered millions of his fellows?

Corbyn's henchmen, thugs and bully-boys are at this very moment terrorising local executives up and down the country Bob.

Hysterical nonsense.