This party was founded by courageous people, pioneers who achieved a great deal, and this party has a huge membership and under the Registration of Parties Act we are the Labour Party.
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A further 170,000 people paid £25 to sign up as registered supporters to vote in the leadership race – though more than 40,000 have reportedly since been rejected by the party.
Graham Jones, who has been a staunch critic of Mr Corbyn’s leadership, says the current state of the Labour party is “shocking”, but insists he would stick with Labour following the leadership election ahead of next month’s party conference.
Answering questions, he referred to the mass of shadow cabinet resignations that propelled the MPs’ revolt.
“Unfortunately, I could not continue supporting Jeremy after the events that followed Hilary Benn’s sacking”. “With more than 1,000 members, we are now the Island’s biggest political party”.
“That Gaitskell biography of course recounts his most famous speech as Leader of the Labour Party, where he spoke of his determination to “fight, fight and fight again to save the Party we love”.
She added; “We need leadership that ensures our electability, and respectfully, Jeremy is not offering that leadership”.
“Leaders must lead from the front and make our case to the country, but Jeremy failed to do so”.
“Is it to be be a politics of an elite, decided between an elite and media elites in this country, or is it to be a politics of people expressing their hopes and aspirations for this generation and the next generation?”
“Jeremy should have used the European Union campaign to show his potential to become our next Labour Prime Minister”.
Should a split occur in the Labour Party, despite Corbyn’s appeals, any movement he leads based on his watered-down reformist prescriptions would prove no more effective in defending the working class and opposing capitalism than he has been as Labour leader.
There are three options despairing Labour MPs are discussing over the summer. However, we have seen the opposite.
On September 21, the deadline for returning votes is reached.
“I believe those who voted in the last leadership election don’t like what has happened”.
“I’ve got mates who joined the particular group [Momentum], I’ve got mates who joined in order to vote for Jeremy, I’ve got members of my own party in Pontypridd who have joined because they think the party is heading in the right direction, and I agree with them”.
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Mr Smith, who toppled Ms Eagle as the “unity” candidate tasked with ousting Mr Corbyn as Labour leader by dissenting MPs, drew widespread criticism for saying he wanted to “smash” Mrs May “back on her heels”.
