“If this is happening in local nomination meetings then we must be aware of what Corbyn supporters from outside our party may be doing to undermine the upcoming national voting process”.
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Writing in the Mail on Sunday about the Court of Appeal’s Friday ruling and his own unsuccessful foray into the courts, he said: “The courts decided that the rules as they stand allowed it (Mr Corbyn to be automatically included on the leadership ballot)”.
Corbyn also claimed that McNicol, Labour’s most senior employee, has questions to answer over his conduct in “recent months”.
Mr Corbyn was expected to say: “The Southern Rail debacle just goes to show how private transport operators can not be trusted with having passengers best interests at heart”.
The Observer said to Corbyn that MPs opposing him “get their mandate from their constituents” and it was “perfectly reasonable for MPs, who are taking soundings from voters, to say they are unwilling to support you as leader because they don’t see you as being electable as a prime minister”.
The result of the contest will be announced at a special conference in Liverpool on September 24.
In a blogpost, the AWL’s Cathy Nugent added: “We want to help Corbyn remake the Labour Party as a party that fights for the interests of the working class”. Rank-and-file members angered that they would be disenfranchised raised more than $100,000 through crowdfunding to file suit, and they won a decision in a high court overturning the ban.
The reason for this is that the new members are believed to be overwhelmingly more likely to vote for Corbyn. In the same vote, Corbyn received just 4% of the vote while 4% voted for ‘no nomination’. And they are welcome to make the comments that they do. The latest YouGov opinion poll shows the Conservatives on 42 percent, with Labour trailing 14 points behind on 28 percent.
Has a party ever before been as at odds with its members as Labour is now? “This is not true”, he said. That was when a group of Labour politicians formed the short-lived SDP, the Social Democratic Party. Asked three times if he had confidence in McNicol, Corbyn stated, “I have been happy to work with him”. A new breakaway could even become the official opposition if enough MPs jumped on board.
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Jeremy Corbyn has directly attacked his elected deputy Tom Watson over his claims that “Trotsky entryists” are manipulating young party members to boost support for the Labour leader. “The future is in their hands”, concludes the Economist commentary.
