A torrent of slander and abuse has been heaped on Corbyn and his left-wing supporters by the likes of Tom Watson, the Blairite deputy leader of the party who claims that members who support Corbyn have had their “arms twisted” by “Trotskyites”.
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Meanwhile, Owen Smith, who is challenging for the Labour leadership, used a speech in Salford yesterday to claim that NHS spending on the private sector has doubled to almost £9 billion under the Conservatives. The turnout among the constituencies ranged from just 7% to 15%, according to the New Stateman’s George Eaton, with most members choosing to abstain.
Mr Smith said he “completely disagrees” with this approach, adding: “People have tried to say because I’m somebody who worked for a biotech firm and a pharmaceutical firm that I’m somehow in favour of private provision in the NHS – I am opposed to it”. It’s all really overblown.
Many MPs and political commentators expect Corbyn to be declared the victor when the result is announced at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool from September 24. “I don’t think they’re Trotskyists”.
At a speech at the University of Salford’s Fredrick Road campus, following a visit to Trafford General Hospital, he will say: “It is now clear that Theresa May has given Jeremy Hunt the green light to start privatising our health service”.
“What this result shows, is that members here in Sefton Central strongly support Jeremy Corbyn’s new type of politics, with closer engagement with communities”.
The Jewish Labour Movement also endorsed Smith on Monday, with 92% of its members saying they preferred him to Corbyn.
“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”.
“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. I’ve just had my first child and have other things to think about.
Corbyn spoke to that mood at the rally on Monday.
He said: “Over the last 20 years we have gone from a majority of local candidates becoming MPs to the growth of a new political class becoming Labour MPs. The rolling back of the state, the destruction of public services, the programme of austerity”.
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“Cleethorpes Constituency Labour Party has chose to remain neutral during the election of the leader of the Labour Party”. That is because the Trotsky entryists were living in a city under the ground guarded by men in yellow boiler suits, perfecting their evil arm-twisting machine, cackling “soon we will unleash our power on Ipswich Constituency Labour Party then nothing can stop us.mwahaha”.
