Ed Miliband has called for him to quit.
The Blairite conspiracy has already been debunked.
He has to go.
The Blairite conspiracy has already been debunked.
He has to go.
Jeremy Corbyn - Not Not Labour Party(?), not a Communist (BBC)
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Renationalisation of railway franchises as they come up for renewal.
Removal of benefit cap and an end to the bedroom tax.
The construction of more council houses.
Supported Merkel's approach to the migrant crisis. More recently, called for the UK to host child refugees.
Unmanaged immigration.
Increases to the minimum wage in excess of current proposals.
Those are several which immediately spring to mind. At least i think those have been stated as policies, and not merely the view of Corbyn himself.
I wouldn't bet on it. Corbyn is their candidate, they'll be happy to give him a new mandate (and he will win, undoubtedly).
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Before the no confidence motion, before it was clear that Corbyn can't actually fill a shadow cabinet let alone front bench, before council leaders came out saying he should resign, before previous leaders called on him to resign, and before it became clear that Corbyn is quite willing to take the party down with him.
And given that Tom Watson and Angela Eagle actually have closer ties to the unions than Corbyn does, it's hard to believe they're actually keen for him to stay on.
But as I mentioned earlier, some of them have elections coming up themselves.
Considering that Gisela Stuart is likely to play some part in future EU negotiations (and came out of the EURef campaign fairly well i thought), it will be interesting to see if any of eventual candidates seek her support.
Oh my. As much as I'd love him to stay as leader, that would be sublime.
I don't think Gisela Stuart is Tory-lite enough. Yes she was pro-Iraq and against an investigation into it but her voting record on welfare in recent years does include her trying to do something to help so they'll be concerned about that.
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I think Owen Jones mentioned something similar recently and I guess it could work although isn't there the chance it will just be Corbyn 2.0, in that the center and the right of the party will go along with whoever the candidate is for a period of time but at the first sign of ''failure'' they will just repeat the same acts we are seeing now. Ok maybe not to the same extremes but they will certainly try to undermine the candidate again and again and again.
As for the potential spilt I agree with you , if Corbyn stay it's almost inevitable. And as you've said the chances are the establishment will be able to play it better than Corbyn(Even as someone who voted for Corbyn and will do again in the leadership race should it happen, he's really shite at ''playing the game''). But at the same time the Labour Party is now so wide in it's political spectrum that's this was almost bound to happen at some stage. The only reason I can think of as to why The Labour Party has such a wide spectrum is because of our voting system, really there's no reason why people like Hilary Benn and Corbyn should ever be in the same political party.
Still this may all be pointless if the Unions stop backing.
Sorry if this is a naive question but: why are some MPs (seemingly) afraid of what the Chilcot Report might contain?
Some of them will have been part of the government at the time. Those who held positions at the Treasury, the MoD and FCO, could well be linked with (although not accused directly) serious errors or wrongdoing.
Many of them also voted against the inquiry so will be accused of attempting a cover up if it comes out with anything particularly damning.
Cheers, both. 
"It is reported by Robert Peston from ITV News that 13,000 people have joined Labour in a week and 60 per cent of them giving the reason for signing up as "supporting Corbyn"."
I think he enjoys a good support from grassroot populace, youth and Unions. Labour should avoid a situation where their leadership is out of sync with the supporters too. But imo he should go. With failure to deliver on Remain, a new leadership will benefit the party overall more. It should be voluntary and not a coup.
Hang on in there, Jeremy!
The other 40% 'get rid of Corbyn'?
Unless it has changed since I joined, the online application includes a section asking why you want to join. So presumably the 40% is a mix of anti-Corbyn and people who put something unrelated or nothing at all. Nothing at all. Nothing at all.
The other 40% just realised it was cheaper than joining the Tories... something
Why exactly do you want him to stay? Labour are pretty much a non-entity with him at the helm.
He really is a rude, showboating sack of weasel w*nk.Cameron said:
The only people who are going to care about this are the people that already believe the worst possible outcome of this report i.e. people that vote Corbyn anyway.
It won't even cause a ripple in the news to the wider electorate in the current climate.
Struggle to believe that, maybe it means people in the shadow cabinet rather than the likes of Milne, who is a genuine bastard.
What that fecker signed up and got promoted.
No wonder this place has gone to the shits.
I want a Labour party, not a bunch of jokers who cry crocodile tears while propping up the Tories by doing absolutely nothing. To use one of your terms, none of the non-entities that would be nominated as a replacement have a leg to stand on in that regard.
In that case they'll have no issues with Corbyn hanging around until then.
Corbyn should wait. He will get his chance. The rest are plain opportunists. They will fall.
As an outsider, this thread is the only place I've really seen anyone suggest Corbyn shouldn't go.
Happy to provide such a service.
It is just symbolic of Corbyn's ineptitude when it comes to strategy if you ask me.
What difference would another week make? Plus it'll give them time to find a replacement, which they seem to be struggling with as I assume they're all abstaining from putting themselves forward.
My Facebook's pretty evenly split.
You do nothing anyway. You're a joke. You will get nowhere near government with him in charge, he may be popular amongst your hardcore root base but countrywide he is seen as an irrelevant hippy.
If you keep him what exactly is the point in Labour existing?
I think the overwhelming majority of Labour grassroots support want him to stay (this would be reflected in a leadership contest, assuming the unions continue to back him, and that does seem to be the case as of now).
And if he goes, what is the point in Labour existing? Standing up for the vulnerable in this country against the Tories while being lead by a bunch of abstainers?
How exactly is he standing up? He's fifty billion miles away from being in a position to make a difference.
And your alternative is who?
Not really. If he wins a leadership contest and forces through party reform with a renewed mandate, he's arguably in a stronger position than ever.
Ah well, I'm not from the UK so my facebook is a lot less nuanced. Essentially "Corbyn bad, Cameron worse, Brexit stupid, Iceland win lol".
As much as I don't like Corbyn I can't help thinking that this undermining of him has been planned since day one and they were just looking for a window of opportunity to do it, the Brexit vote being that opportunity. If he and Cameron had pushed their political differences to one side and shown more of a united front during the campaign then the Remain vote might have gotten over the line. I'm not sure why Corbyn wasn't more assertive in the run-up to the referendum - is it just that he isn't that assertive a person or is it because he's been a Euro-sceptic throughout much of his political career and by positioning himself on the Remain side he felt uncomfortable in that position?