But he welcomed Friday’s Appeal Court decision to allow Labour’s National Executive Committee to block 130,000 new party members from voting in the leadership contest as a triumph for democracy.
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A Labour MP has claimed a Jeremy Corbyn supporter tried to infiltrate a local branch meeting to “influence the vote” in favour of the former leader.
“They are also explicitly targeting Young Labour and Labour student clubs with the aim of recruiting new members. I’d like to see them not standing on platforms and encouraging the sort of action where crowds of people turn up outside MPs offices and stop what is actually our job”.
Mr Corbyn has won the backing of a majority of local constituency Labour parties (CLP) in his re-election bid, securing 285 CLP nominations to Mr Smith’s 53, although the scorecard has no direct bearing on the result.
Cllr Brown added: “The Labour party has a diverse membership that covers a broad political spectrum”.
“Oppose them as a Jewish donor and the riposte from Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s mouthpiece, is that you are part of a Blairite, Right-wing “conspiracy” (the ancient racist rhetoric is that Jews don’t act alone, the malevolent Jew always conspires) to destabilize the democratically and legitimately elected leader”, he wrote. It’s all really overblown.
“The Corbynista dream of government is our nightmare”, writes Foster, who has donated some 400,000 British pounds in the past few years to Labour. “I don’t think they’re Trotskyists”.
More than 250 people turned up for the rally in Hall Leys Park..
He also spoke to 1,000 more supporters at a Black and Minority Ethnic people for Jeremy rally in Islington, north London, on Monday.
“It would be very, very hard for me that if Jeremy Corbyn wins and something doesn’t dramatically change in the way people are being treated online, in the streets, our security, I can’t imagine why I would want to stay somewhere where I am so obviously not welcome”.
In a week’s time members of Britain’s Labour Party will receive ballot papers that could determine whether the party survives or disappears. It’s definitely Jeremy Corbyn that made me want to get involved.
“I have to make a similar journey every week and I certainly don’t paint myself as some kind of martyr for the cause”, he told PoliticsHome.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said the increase in ticket prices would be “particularly galling” for commuters using Southern Railway. “The rolling back of the state, the destruction of public services, the programme of austerity”.
His opponent in the party leadership election Owen Smith rubbished what Corbyn called the “launch” of a plan to “transform” Britain’s railways.
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“It’s about the way we do politics in our society”.
