He very plainly can not lead a party and his continued presence as Labour leader makes our ability to build an election winning, social movement, the likes of which was saw in the late 90s and early 00s, harder not easier.
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Mr McDonnell accused Mr Smith of “advocating the policies that Jeremy Corbyn was elected on” and there is overlap with the infrastructure fund, a ban on zero hours contracts and benefit changes.
We are not behaving like comrades to each other in this party.
For much of the debate, the two contenders traded promises to fight austerity, boost employment and offer protections to workers.
But Mr McDonnell insisted he does not want to see the party break up, telling the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “I don’t think I did say that”.
His voice rising, he added: “That means winning, it doesn’t mean trading our principles it mean winning to put them into practice – that’s what we have got to do, we are a Labour government in waiting, not a protest movement”.
While Corbyn hit back at Smith for resigning from the shadow cabinet and blamed him for causing the “disunity” in the party.
He told the Evening Standard: “For a while we’ve been thinking that Jeremy Corbyn needs to be held to account about his role in blocking shared parenting in 2011”.
“Jeremy never wants power for himself, he wants people to empower themselves”.
From the start, Smith attacked Corbyn for Labour’s current standing in the polls and warned the party was heading for defeat at the next election.
“Most people in the country don’t think the Labour Party is going places, most people think Labour has lost credibility in recent years and lost further credibility in recent months”, he said. Why worrying? Well generally high speed broadband is considered below superfast broadband, or put another way we know of at least one hotel that has promised high speed broadband since 1998 for visitors, i.e. without some qualifying technical figures it is largely meaningless. He won the leadership with nearly 60 percent of votes less than a year ago and was backed by 54 percent of party supporters, compared to 22 percent for Smith, in an Opinium poll published on July 23.
Jo Kelleher, a 53-year-old university lecturer, said Mr Corbyn’s lack of leadership in the European Union referendum campaign had left her dismayed.
“We’re staying up here until we’ve got our message across, we’re not going to be intimidated by them and hopefully Jeremy Corbyn will get the message”. “We’ve made a lot of progress there”.
‘I decided this is a better way of getting his attention’.
Father-of-two Bobby Smith and his longtime stunt-collaborator Martin Matthews unfurled banners on Corbyn’s roof saying they wanted to grab the opposition leader’s attention.
The two candidates set out their opposing views on Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent, which Parliament recently voted to renew.
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He said nuclear weapons are the “ultimate weapon of mass destruction which indiscriminately kills” and said: “I want to live in a nuclear-free world”. “That is the unfortunate awful truth”.
