"Nobody ever gave me anything, I worked for it all"

Next time some rightwing numpty shitposts this bullshit, perhaps you'd like to remind them that they have been given ALL of the following, without which they could not possibly be where they are today.

• A safe clinical environment within which their mother gave birth to them
• Immunisation from the some of the deadliest diseases
• Lifelong healthcare and support
• Education until the age of 16 with the opportunity to go further
• National and local public transport 
• Public roads
• Public pavements and streetlighting
• Sanitation and clean drinking water
• National power grid
• National gas infrastructure
• Clean beaches and rivers
• Access to sports of all kinds
• Extensive legislation to enhance and protect the human and employment rights of their parents and themselves

And much, much more.
Nobody gave you anything? Give your head a wobble!

A Labour government has never achieved anything?

AKA "All governments are useless and don't do anything except look after themselves".
Next time you hear this, remind Sammy Shitpost that the previous Labour government gave us the following:

1. Civil Partnership
2. The Human Rights Act
3. Freedom of Information act
4. Disability Rights Commission
5. Enhanced employment rights
6. 2009 Autism Act
7. The Electoral Commission
8. Department For International Development
9. Banned foxhunting
10. £2bn Communities Program
11. Rural Development Program
12. Free bus passes for over 60's
13. Banned cluster bombs
14. Ban on new grammar schools
15. Banned cosmetic testing on animals
16. Free breast cancer screening
17. Started Crossrail
18. Minimum wage and the low pay commission and tax credits
19. 18% increase in wages
20. Largest drop in relative poverty including 900,000 pensioners
21. Doubled funding of education
22. 42,400 extra teachers
23. Sure start
24. Reduced operation waiting times for 240,000 people to almost 0
25. Record low waiting times for A&E
26. Waiting times overall down to a max of 18 weeks (lowest ever)
27. Decreased homelessness by 73%
28. Free eye tests for over 60's
29. Free TV licences for over 75's
30. Extended opening times for GP practices
31. Free prescriptions for cancer patients
32. Free part time nursery places for every 3-4 yr old
33. Reduced school class sizes
34. 93,000 more 11 yr-olds achieving numeracy each year
35. Increased annual leave to 28 days minimum
36. Increased child benefit by over 26%
37. Put £20bn into improving social housing
38. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s
39. 10 years' continuous economic growth
40. Heart disease deaths down by 150,000
41. Removed minimum donation limit from Gift Aid
42. Reduced NHS waiting lists overall by over 500,000
43. Oversaw rise in school leavers with 5 good GCSEs from 45% to 76%
44. Brought in young person's job guarantee, pension credit
45. Doubled registered childcare spaces
46. Points based immigration
47. Equalised the age of consent
48. Halved the number of nukes
49. Free school fruit and milk
50. Free entry to galleries and museums
51. Wrote off up to 100% debt for poorest countries
52. Doubled apprenticeships
53. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75%
54. 44,000 extra doctors
55. 89,000 extra nurses
56. 16,000 extra police officers
57. Paternity leave
58. Raised legal age of buying cigarettes to 18
59. Banned tobacco advertising in magazines, newspapers and billboards
60. Introduced the Smoking Ban

And more!

The Tories are trying to kill us all

Grenfell Tower was bad enough. But there's all this:

Almost 600 “additional” suicides could be related to the Government’s Work Capability Assessments, according to a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/16/dwp-suicides-assessments-research_n_8577038.html

30,000 premature deaths linked to fuel poverty and lack of social care.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nhs-cuts-excess-deaths-30000-study-research-royal-society-medicine-london-school-hygiene-martin-a7585001.html

A study published in the British Medical Journal found that for each additional 10,000 people re-assessed, there were an extra 6 suicides, 2,700 additional reports of mental health problems and an additional 7020 antidepressant items prescribed.

https://medium.com/@adamdawkins/this-general-election-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death-eab9c8358bea

Statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed that during the period December 2011 and February 2014 2,380 people died after their claim for employment and support allowance (ESA) ended because a work capability assessment (WCA) found they were found fit for work.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-died-after-fit-for-work-assessment-dwp-figures

Additionally:

The NHS lost 7301 acute hospital beds since 2010. The Red Cross called it a humanitarian crisis. 20 A&E departments are set to close over the next 2 years, though the state of the government may put a stop to that.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-hunt-urged-stop-hiding-9581260

Altogether 15,000 NHS beds have been lost in the last 6 years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/20/nhs-breaking-point-now-norm-says-bma-bed-reductions-revealed/

Mental health care cuts in England 'to total £4.5m'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/mental-health-nhs-funding-cut-millions-five-england-regions-1-billion-spent-2021-scarborough-walsall-a7700476.html
Since I wrote this is it has come to light that 120,000 needless deaths have been caused by NHS cuts and austerity,
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND
NEEDLESS
DEATHS
I wrote last year that people were dying at the rate of 80 per month over and above the normal death rates we expect to see in the UK, and that based on current estimates, by Jan 2018 or 2019 *at the very latest*, Tory policies would have killed more UK citizens than died in the UK during the WHOLE of WW2 as a result of the blitz and other Nazi action.
67,200 civilians died in the UK during WW2 but today's numbers make my original estimate look wildly optimistic.

The Tories have now killed nearly DOUBLE the number of UK citizens than the Nazis killed in the UK during the whole of WW2.

Just let that sink in for a minute.

Journalists and Pundits and #GrenfellTower

Peston: "One reason why the Grenfell tragedy has shaken so many of us is because it exposes so much of what's wrong with the way this place has been run for years.....  It shames us all." (Peston's Post here)

Sorry, Robert, I like you better than most of them but it didn't need this to expose what's wrong with the way the country has been run for so many years. 

This was NOT necessary. It was NOT needed. Not by us, not by anyone with eyes in their head. 

The fact that it took this horrible, awful, dreadful event to shake you lot out of your self satisfied little huddle is not just shaming, it's a national disgrace. You lot are there to do the research, find the facts and speak truth to power, and instead you lap up the power and speak truth to no-one. Ashamed? You should take a year off and have a long hard look at yourselves - in private. 

Tens of thousands - hundreds of thousands of us - have been banging on about this for YEARS. 

All you journalists and commentators and pundits in your cozy little bubble - media complicit with politicians churning out the government approved version of reality, cheerfully and smugly legitimising and enabling it all. You are every bit as responsible as the politicians for this disaster. 

The supreme irony is that you dismissed us out of hand as being "in a bubble shouting into a social media echo chamber" when it was you lot all along. When our "bubble" turns out to have encompassed hundreds of thousands on behalf of - as the election has shown - millions, it's not called a bubble, it's called "the country". You few thousand in the Westminster/media compact were the ones in a bubble, and it has well and truly burst. 

And now you've got the brass balls to attempt to reclaim the narrative and mainsplain it all back to us. Bollocks, mate. Bollocks. 

We don't need your opinion, your analysis, your contrived "disaster voice" for the camera or your crocodile tears for a human tragedy that you and your chums are responsible for.

Alan Davis on The Last Leg

It beggars belief that some half-pissed millionaire "metropolitan elite" privileged Tory boy can come on a show like The Last Leg - which used to have some integrity, and incidentally used to be pretty funny - and tell the 650,000-strong Labour membership (the ones that democratically elected, and then RE- elected Jeremy Corbyn, anyway), and the wider population who for the first time in a decade or more no longer feel disenfranchised by the political landscape of millionaire and billionaires like Osborne, Mandelson and Blair, that they have no right to a voice, no right to political representation, no right to choose their representative, and all because that one person has issues with who they perceive Jeremy Corbyn to be (as if the leadership of The Labour Party has, or should have, anything to do with personality in the first place: it's the policy, stupid).

So thank you, Alan Davis, for putting us all straight there. We'll just go back to marching in our millions against an unjustified war for oil that you probably think was a jolly good wheeze (since you hate Corbyn so much and he's almost the only surviving politician who spoke against it) and have our rights and benefits stripped from us and continue to pay our taxes with no representation.

Cheers. Don't expect me to allow your face on my telly again any time soon though.

And as for The Last Leg - I expect they'll have Katie Hopkins and Kelvin McKenzie on next, so we can be told we've no right to keep going on about Hillsborough or seek justice over Orgreave. 

I know they justify this stuff with "hey, we're a comedy show, it's all just a big laugh" but really - this is a show which started its life during the Paralympics, FOR the Paralympics, as it were - hosted by people with disabilities - which has gone on to give disabled people a voice, visibility, credibility and so on, and used to stand for something, unless I'm very much mistaken.

For that show to use cheap personal abuse to continue the utterly unjustifiable hounding of Jeremy Corbyn from office when they know full well that in the last 7 years

• Thousands of people have died from benefit sanctions; 
• All disabled people specifically have had £30 a week cut from their already meagre incomes; 
• Some people now have to have baths naked in a paddling pool in the front room because their houses have been taken away; 
• People have been made homeless or driven to ruin over the hated "bedroom tax"
• Thousands of disabled people have lost their jobs, and effectively their whole lives, having had their mobility vehicles stripped from them;
• Thousands more stand to lose their homes altogether now that landlords have a free reign to charge anything they like for homes that do not even have to be fit for human habitation but housing benefit is severely capped. 
• The disabled of this country are being shoved off a cliff edge by the same millionaires that are, and vote for, the Tory party. Millionaires like Alan Davis.

Have some fucking integrity with your "comedy", mate. Jeez.

Workhouses For The Disabled Just Got One Step Closer

Step One:
Make sure everyone has their motability vehicle taken away.

Step Two:
Declare everyone "fit for work".


Step Three:
Corral everyone into "care homes".   <---- We Are Here

Step Four:
Because no-one has any transport and the "care home" is miles from anywhere, bring the work to them.


Step Five:
Make being "allowed" to stay in the "care home" dependent on doing the work you are told to do, regardless of your ability or will.


Step Six:
Make sure your friends in the media call this anything BUT an enforced slave labour workhouse.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/25/disabled-people-disabilities-health-care-homes?CMP=share_btn_tw

Your government hates you and wants you to die.

I'm starting to believe that somewhere in the late 2000's the Tory think tanks decided that the population of the uk needed to be cut by around 5-20% if there were to be any chance of enslaving the rest of us for their personal profit and pocketing every last red cent, and for the last 6 years we've been seeing the start of the cull.

Look at the Red North posts, the state of the NHS, the suicides, the tens of thousands of deaths attributable to "austerity" of the old, the homeless… look at all the available evidence and tell me I'm wrong. 

Please.

Since this written it has come to light that NHS cuts and austerity are being blamed for 120,000 needless deaths.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND.

NEEDLESS.

DEATHS.

This is reported on social media everywhere at the moment and also in the MSM like the HateMail (to whom I will not link).

When I wrote this originally people were dying needlessly at the rate of about 8o a month.

Based on this - the premature deaths of over 9,500 welfare claimants and 27,000 "extra" deaths among the elderly - I estimated that by the end of winter 2017 or *at best* 2018 the Tories would have killed more UK citizens that the Nazis did in the whole of WW2 - a mere 67,200.

Today's report makes that look WILDLY optimistic. They have already surpassed the death toll of the blitz and the bombings of Coventry and elsewhere by nearly double.

A War Of Attrition

In the U.K. between 2011-2014 2,380 people died - up to 600 of them suicides - having been declared "fit for work" and having their benefits withdrawn, and a further 7,200 claimants died while still on ESA and being placed in the work-related activity group (DWP figures).

Last year alone 27,000 "extra" elderly people died due to "austerity cuts" (Department of Health).
People are currently dying at the rate of just under 90 a month.

This is set to climb steeply as winter progresses now that the benefit caps on housing benefit and universal credit have come into force.

If this government is allowed to continue this war of attrition against the underclass of poor they have created it won't be long before they will have killed more people in this country than the 67,000 civilians who died in the U.K. during WW2 as a direct result of hostilities. By Xmas next year they will have exceeded that number by over 2,000.

The score so far, therefore stands at WW2 67,000, Conservatives: 36,580, increasing by at the very least 2,486 souls every  month.

It is utterly beyond me how this can ever be justified or accepted in any way.

Leaving @UKLabour? Don't quit now!

If you're thinking of leaving the Labour Party now - you're about 20 years too late. This is where we take it back.

IMO winning the next election IS less important than staying on the road. We've done the whole ditching of principles for power thing and it didn't work out.

Though I have to say that if the parachuted-in entryist MPs were replaced with the democratic choice of the CLPs - even if they turn out to be the same candidate, there's no problem with that - and if the Tory election fraud scandal is brought front and centre and the police aren't allowed to just quietly bury it all - then I genuinely believe we could be looking at another landslide victory.

I don't really understand why blue labour and the nec hate the fact that we are now the biggest political party in Europe, and heading towards being the biggest political movement in the world.
It's as if their elitist little club is threatened by having to do what they are actually there TO do - oppose the Tories, stop the rot, get elected and all the while improve the lives of working people and, dare I say it? Everybody.

#PMQs - Theresa May says something true!

Theresa May broke with tradition today and said one thing at #PMQs that was actually true.

"Whoever wins the leadership of the Labour Party, we are not going to let them anywhere near power again".

The Tories, being investigated over £6,000,000 election fraud which is going unremarked in the mainstream media as their Prime-Minister-Without-Mandate continues to push through the privatisation of the NHS, are busily gerrymandering the constituencies to ensure that neither Labour nor anybody else can ever win another General Election.

Time to grow up - and Step Up

Chi Onwurah MP has moaned that she had her role jiggled around a bit after the chicken coup started, and was then left to get on with her job by herself with no help from the leader's office. 


Owen Smith has made it central to his campaign that he was left alone to do his new job taking on the DWP with no help from the leader's office - he also claims for himself the successes in turning around Tory legislation (largely thanks to labour lords, I thought?) but says in the same breath this is a failure of Corbyn's. 

A pattern is starting to emerge. People who were parachuted in to safe seats by the previous Labour administrations are expected to step up and do a real job on their own initiative like a proper grownup - and when no-one from central office turns up to do their job for them they claim racism, sexism, incompetence, any damn thing to cover up their panic at having to do something more than wear a shiny suit and nod through Tory policy.

Not good enough. And we can see through this.

Forget social media. It's useless.

We need a Labour government or we're doomed. We need a proper democratic SOCIALIST government, not a UKIP-lite Tory-lite neoliberal monocracy. Damn straight. But the political establishment on all sides are resolute that people should have no real say in how they are controlled and used as the corporates' cash cow. That's why the Green Party only have one MP, and why socialists are always in a minority.

If Labour is to actually get elected we must get the message across to millions and millions of people despite the MSM and their corporate leader writers. As a tool for national change on this scale, social media is useless. It speaks to the same people over and over, preaching to the converted, the already privileged with computers and smartphones, the few that think social medial is important. Yes, few. 2,000,000 might seem a lot, but there are 43,000,000 voters we need to talk to, voters who currently think Corbyn is a dangerous laughing stock and only the Tories have a genuine narrative, because we have let the MSM get away with it for so long.

We have to get the genuine messages about what we know to be true out there in front of 43,000,000 people? Not just a handful. If we don't, we lose. If we do, we might - might - win.

These messages have to be true, and blunt, and direct, and unequivocal. Messages about tax credits, in work poverty, homelessness, IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION and the scarcity of resources (and why the problem isn't immigration), and how to fix it, with NHS funding and housing, schools etc well you know what the problems are.

And these messages have to be everywhere. On the back of every bus in every city. On massive posters (remember "Labour isn't working"?). In every toilet in every motorway services, on trains, on fly posters, leaflets and handouts on the street, and yes, in every newspaper on full page ads - it has to be relentless, unavoidable, inescapable that we MUST have a democratic socialist government for all our sakes, and our children's future.

And that takes planning and a lot of money. Does labour have either, and the will to do what's necessary?

Don't Say You Weren't Warned.

When Britain is finally out of the EU; when Scotland and Ireland have left and we are just England and Wales; when there is no NHS free at the point of delivery and it costs £75 for a consult and an aspirin and even a semi serious illness will bankrupt you or force you to watch someone you love die slowly and horribly; when all the schools are profit-making training centres for zero hours contract jobs for corporations that take all their profits abroad; when the disabled are all tagged and ghettoised as too expensive to care about; when the elderly are demonised and deleted from existence by their miserable, degrading lack of care; when higher education costs £50,000 plus interest 10% above base; when a significant proportion of the population has been criminalised and forced to work a 10 hour day for nothing making the products that those same corporations sell; when the beaches are again so filthy that you can't ever go to the beach; when the water is so polluted by fracking that you are forced to buy over priced bottled water for everything; when your energy is so expensive that you are forced to choose between heating and eating; when every penny you earn is used to repay your debts and get yourself to work and back with nothing left over; when your friends and neighbours have been deported or excluded from society and still there are not enough resources, housing or healthcare; when the Middle East is a smoking radioactive crater populated only by robots that can drill for oil; when the only thing left in Eastern Europe are NATO's depleted uranium leftovers; when the only politicians you can have are the ones that you are allowed…

Don't say you weren't warned.

Democracy's Last Stand

If Corbyn doesn't get re-elected as Labour leader that will effectively mark the end of representative democracy in this country.

It will still *look* like representative democracy but the fact is that John McDonnell was right - this isn't about opposition to Jeremy Corbyn, this is about the 1% telling the rest of us to know our place.

If they manage, through their campaign of lies, spin, misinformation, gerrymandering and disenfrachisement, to block Corbyn this time then after this we will only ever be able to vote for who we are allowed to vote for, not who we want to vote for.

The choices will be between this or that neoliberal, this or that Blairite, this or that political "royalty" elitist multimilionaire. The Kinnocks, the Bennites (oh how THAT term has changed meaning), the Eagles and the Smiths of Westminster will allow to vote for them, or one of their gang, or we can vote for more of the same in the Tory party or UKIP.

But vote for who WE want to vote for - nope.

@RichardBurgon Nails @DavisHD trying to dishonestly frame the debate

In this wonderful little clip Davis tries FOUR TIMES to frame the nature of reality around Corbyn as the opposite of reality. To try to claim as he does that Corbyn's hundreds of thousands of supporters are the ones who are out of step with just 172 MPs would be laughable if he, and the rest of the BBC, didn't get away with this day after day.

But Richard Burgon MP to the rescue! Just listen to the way he patiently but assertively corrects Evan Davis at every turn.

First of all Davis tries to validate an undemocratic coup attempt by bringing up Corbyn's own history of opposing the leadership. Burgon's answer to this: "There's a difference between principled opposition on .... policy to an outright attempt to capsize the whole ship".

In his next attempt Davis tries to characterise the Labour leadership as some sort of dictatorship. Burgon's response: "The truth is Jeremy Corbyn was elected with an overwhelming majority, the biggest mandate of any political leader in British history".

Following this Davis tries to describe Corbyn as "a radical", hoping some kind of negative scary description will finally stick. No chance. Burgon's answer "There's nothing radical about proposing a £10 per hour minimum wage ... nothing radical about proposing a massive program of building council houses, and I don't think there's anything radical ... in thinking Britain made a huge mistake in getting involved in the Iraq war."

Finally Davis tries one last, desperate, undignified dig: "You're implying that he can limp on", he says. Burgon, maintaining his equilibrium perfectly: "I'm not implying anything about 'limping'".

Meanwhile in other news, te Met Police report that "10,000 people gather in Parliament square to support Corbyn". This, in the hands of BBC's Laura Kuenssberg , becomes "Jeremy Corbyn's support begins to show signs of fraying".

I would normally say something like "you couldn't make it up" - but it's pretty clear that's exactly what they do.

Heseltine Rants - Real Enemy Is Still Cameron

Heseltinr must be utterly furious with David Cameron - nearly everything he's accusing Johnson of is squarely Cameron's fault, but he has to find a scapegoat. As furious as he is with the towering stupidity of the prime minister, he's desperate to deflect a backlash against the true culprit because by rights this awful mess should have brought down central government. Johnson's an unprincipled bastard but Cameron started this whole shitfest to outmanoeuvre UKIP, mollify his back benches and maintain his mendacious grasp on power.

By rights we should be marching on Westminster and putting Cameron's metaphorical head on a pike on Westminster Bridge along with Osborne, Johnson, Gove, Hunt and all the rest of them, bringing the government down lock, stock and barrel, and Heseltine knows it. That's why he's come on TV to speak to the great unwashed.

The tragedy is that there's no opposition to do this for us because Labour's PLP are so blind to everyone and everything but themselves that they are engaged in their own internal power grab like dogs fighting in a cage. If they looked out through the bars they'd see a once in a century opportunity to take power and do some good in the world for a change.

I guess the PLP are so stupid we wouldn't want them there anyway. They'd only vote for another war and overclaim their expenses. It's time ALL these stuffed shirt career politicians went the way of the dodo.

Power to the people!

Heseltine's ingenuous rant is here.

Today's Email From My Labour Party Branch

Steve Ballard, the secretary of my local Labour Party Branch sent out this email today: below it is my response.

1.
As a current officer in our branch, I feel moved to say that we all have differences of view, but that in amongst what is a clearly a time of tumult, we must create spaces where people can share their views, collaborate and debate. All with mutual respect and an awareness that we do share common goals around equality and social justice, power for the many not the few, tolerance and solidarity... (I hope we do!)

2.Jeremy is clearly a decent, principled politician but it's time for him to step aside. The Labour movement is not a protest group. We should be seeking to return to power and then getting on with improving the lives of the millions of people in this country who need our help.
Jeremy has raised some excellent points during his time as leader. In fact, I think we'll look back and recognise how his time in office helped rebalance the party between idealism and pragmatism.
But, ultimately, politics is about leadership. When you're a representative of the people you can't just be a conduit for a protest movement; you actually have to lead. Jeremy is simply not a leader. We need a leader who will listen to all sides and unite the party. To take the fight to the Tories and guide us to election victory.
Many people clearly still support Jeremy. But many do not. I fear for our party if this situation continues.
I won't accept being a member of a leaderless, ambition-free protest group for much longer. And I'm not alone. Not by a long way...

My response was as follows. It rambles a bit, isn't as organised as I'd like, and doesn't press every button, and I'm very sad that I had to write it.

"I'm sorry I can't come along in person tonight as I would welcome the opportunity to express my views.

I am shocked and saddened by your lack of commitment to creating a fairer and more just and peaceful world for us and our children.
For me to abandon those principles by joining David Cameron when he called for Jeremy Corbyn to step down, head of a government delivered on Monday of the most stinging rebuke in the history of the United Nations, and to join those in the PLP who have consistently enabled by their abstentions the egregious punishment of the poor, sick, disabled and disadvantaged to provide tax breaks for the rich; by voting to bomb Syria, creating hundreds of thousands of refugees now being victimised for their very existence, and increasing immeasurably the terrorist threat to this country and others; by enabling the genocide now taking place in Yemen at the hands of the Saudis; and most importantly to join those "grandees" who took us to illegal war in Iraq - responsible for the biggest decline of membership in Labour's history and who lost us 2 general elections, and are now briefing every paper, every pundit, every news outlet against Jeremy Corbyn using trumped-up nonsense, paid "hecklers" and fabricated "evidence" as on Monday in order to save their own worthless skins; who await the publication of the Chilcot Report with trepidation and are using every possible ruse to unseat the one politician who has vowed to take it seriously; if I were to abandon these principles of what use, then, would be any power I might gain? To what end?

 Politics is not about leadership at any cost. This is exactly why we are in this mess today. We stand on the brink of the most horrible future imaginable and your answer is to stand with the unprincipled thieves and liars that brought us here?

No thank you. I stand with the vast majority of the Labour Party 

membership, with the 17,000 who have joined the party in the last week to defend Jeremy Corbyn, with the thousands in Momentum and the millions in the country who want a fairer society free from racism, war, poverty and injustice.

 You stand where you think your own advantage lies; I won't be standing there with you."

Also, this:

 

The Corbyn Coup - THE FULL TIMELINE

A friend posted this in an email. it may of course all be nonsense.

"It now emerges that Hilary Benn and Angela Eagle have been secretly briefing against Jeremy Corbyn for the last 9 months. They have constantly fed information to Laura Kuenssberg and the Murdoch press corps about pending coups and dissatisfaction in the Parliamentary Party.They were planning to move against him on several occasions and chickened out'. The debate on the RAF bombing intervention on Syria on the 2.12.15 was to be the preliminary opportunity for Benn to strike by
speaking out against the Labour line ( which he did to much Tory
applause). This was to be followed up by a no confidence motion after
the loss of the Oldham by-election which was confidently predicted by
the Murdoch press.The plot fell apart when the Oldham by-election was won by Labour, with UKIP in second place and the Tories beaten into third.
Their next attempt was when Shadow Foreign Minister,Stephen Doughty,resigned on air during the BBC's Daily Politics programme on 7.1.16,just before Prime Ministers Questions. Kuenssberg had been briefed by the plotters beforehand and she had fed this information to David Cameron who announced it during PM's Questions to the surprise of the Labour benches.
This plot to usurp Jeremy also fell apart.
All of Kuenssberg's reports which began with 'a senior Labour spokesman
told me....etc.' came from the offices of Benn and Eagle.
Kuenssberg was also informed about the present debacle. The conspirators had received news that Corbyn would suggest the impeachment of Tony Blair if the soon to be published Chilcott report on the Iraq war showed any basis of 'war crimes'. The conspirators decided they had to pre-empt this attack on Blair. It was agreed that Benn would initiate the attack on Corbyn. He awoke Corbyn in the early hours of Sunday morning 26.6.16 with a phone call to inform him of his intention to attack him publicly with a statement of his lack of confidence in his leadership. Corbyn had
no option but to remove him from post.The plan was then to organise a series of resignations with one being announced roughly every 2 hours to give the impression of a growing revolt. This was designed to keep it in the public eye and they would hopefully then encourage others not involved in the plot to join the bandwagon if they thought the ship was sinking.Initially there were 10 Shadow cabinet members recruited. and Eagles was to be the last one to declare in order to separate any association between Benn and herself.She would make a tearful, on-line resignation speech underlining Jeremy's honesty and goodness but saying he had no leadership skills.
"OH ! WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE"

The link to the original Facebook post is HERE.

Demand That Your MP Represents Your Views

To anyone thinking of writing to their Labour MP in protest at their attack on the leadership, a friend asked what he might say and I came up with this, hope it helps, please nick bits if you, too, have an MP like Chuka Umunna who is *not* representing you.

You could try pointing out that speaking for yourself and the few hundred people whose political views you know about, fighting their own leadership instead of making a common enemy of the real threat to everyone in this country - the Tories - is rapidly eroding their support and making Corbyn's even stronger as your friends continue to join the Labour Party in the expectation that they will have to defend Corbyn's leadership against further attack.

You might remind them that the PLP are the elected representatives of both the general population and those self-same The Labour Party members, not the other way around - that if the EURef result was about anything, it was about people being determined to have their own voice and not one handed down to them by a patronising political elite, and that the Labour party is not its MPs, it is its membership.

If he or she wants to continue the hemorrhage of support started by Tony Blair's illegal war and continued by their support for David Cameron's then they might want to start considering the views of the people that actually vote for them for once.

Or something.

Corbyn - delivered more #Remain votes than anyone

@JeremyCorbynMP was PERCEIVED to be a failure in the referendum debate for three important reasons.

1. He refused to share a platform with Cameron who he fundamentally disagrees with on literally everything, and therefore got little media coverage by association.
2. The media didn't report a single one of the dozens of speeches he made, nor interview any of the tens of thousands of people he connected with and won over.
3. His would-be political assassins have furthered the lie on #Marr and elsewhere in order to further their own tawdry careers at the expense of Great Britain. this cynical attempt at a coup was planned long ago to coincide with the #EuRef and would be taking place whatever the outcome.

It is true that he does not court the media; he is well aware that everything he says will be weaponised and turned against him; I don't need to provide examples of this, they are everywhere.

Lest we forget, it was Hilary Benn and Alan Johnson who actually LED the "Labour In" campaign, and we heard little or nothing of any import from either of them in all the long months. It is THEIR campaign that has failed and to #BlameCorbyn is laughable. It merely points up how desperate the same old political elite are to retain control. 

The very elite that everyone seems to be saying the vote was in reality registering a protest against. 
Benn and Johnson asked Corbyn to do 2 things during the campaign: deliver the votes of 

1. Labour supporters. Around 2/3 voted to remain as a result. 
2. Young voters. Around 3/4 voted to remain. 

Corbyn delivered in spades. Benn and Johnson clearly did not.