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[neil999]

Honestly, I don't care if you're a Corbyn fan or not - you surely can't think the timing of this is clever?

Conference season - a chance to put your best foot forward ahead of a very likely election, but no - let's infight for next to no reason instead.

Twitter rumours that corbyn is going and want to prevent Watson becoming temp leader!

 

[peteblue]

Twitter rumours that corbyn is going and want to prevent Watson becoming temp leader!

NOOOOOOOOooooooooo. We need Corbyn to keep the Tories in power.......

 

[davek]

Delighted Watson is being ousted. Should have come earlier than this.

The rest of the Blairites and Brownites need punting too.

 

[Khalekan]

Twitter rumours that corbyn is going and want to prevent Watson becoming temp leader!

I just give up.

Nothing will convince me that MI5 did not infiltrate the Labour Party and foment the Labour civil war in the 80s and what has happened in the party since Gordon Brown quit.

Here we are on the eve of the party conference, on the cusp of a General Election and this latter day Militant Tendency is driving a wedge between both wings of the movement.

Five years of the most right wing government in history is fast becoming a frightening possibility.

 

[tsubaki]

Honestly, I don't care if you're a Corbyn fan or not - you surely can't think the timing of this is clever?

Conference season - a chance to put your best foot forward ahead of a very likely election, but no - let's infight for next to no reason instead.

This is a bit of a misunderstanding of how the Labour Party works; Conference is really the only time when it would be possible to get rid of the post of Deputy Leader.

Watson has brought this on himself, though. I am not sure any party would tolerate a Deputy Leader who went around doing what he has been since 2015 - continually attacking the leader, and continually pretending he isn't actually part of the leadership. What makes it worse is that Watson has a long and shameful history of doing this - to Blair, to Miliband and now to Corbyn - as well as a fairly consistent record of being wrong. Sooner or later they were going to have to do something about him, and I guess patience has finally snapped.

 

[tsubaki]

I just give up.

Nothing will convince me that MI5 did not infiltrate the Labour Party and foment the Labour civil war in the 80s and what has happened in the party since Gordon Brown quit.

Here we are on the eve of the party conference, on the cusp of a General Election and this latter day Militant Tendency is driving a wedge between both wings of the movement.

Five years of the most right wing government in history is fast becoming a frightening possibility.

Who, Momentum? The timing isn't the best, but someone had to do something about the people who have refused to accept they are no longer in charge.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Delighted Watson is being ousted. Should have come earlier than this.

The rest of the Blairites and Brownites need punting too.

The ones that were successful in making Labour not just electable but stay in government for 3 terms? Righto.

You can have a moderate modern Labour party in power or you can have a 70's/80's variant and watch on the sidelines while Johnson does whatever he wants to the country. The sad thing is you'll pick the latter all day long.

 

[Khalekan]

 

[Khalekan]

The ones that were successful in making Labour not just electable but stay in government for 3 terms? Righto.

You can have a moderate modern Labour party in power or you can have a 70's/80's variant and watch on the sidelines while Johnson does whatever he wants to the country. The sad thing is you'll pick the latter all day long.

 

[summerisle]

That doesn't make sense.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Of course it is.....

Believing is seeing! Freddie Mercury in the Mr Robot scene.

 

[Eggs]

Delighted Watson is being ousted. Should have come earlier than this.

The rest of the Blairites and Brownites need punting too.

...the move will only appeal to the Corbynists. It’s another example of Labour not being clever. Regardless of what you think, Labour need to attract Conservative voters as well as moderate section of the electorate. Tom Watson appeals to many members of the public more than Corbyn.

Labour continue to shoot themselves in the foot when we most need them.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

This is a bit of a misunderstanding of how the Labour Party works; Conference is really the only time when it would be possible to get rid of the post of Deputy Leader.

Watson has brought this on himself, though. I am not sure any party would tolerate a Deputy Leader who went around doing what he has been since 2015 - continually attacking the leader, and continually pretending he isn't actually part of the leadership. What makes it worse is that Watson has a long and shameful history of doing this - to Blair, to Miliband and now to Corbyn - as well as a fairly consistent record of being wrong. Sooner or later they were going to have to do something about him, and I guess patience has finally snapped.

Its tedious headlines, one of many reasons why BBC is loosing its trusted brand probably has already. That nasty antisemite from Momentum Jon Lansman at it again, will be the easy minded mantra.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Well that was a peculiar interview with Dawn Butler on R4 It's interesting by the way that the purge of moderates from the Tories by Johnson/Cummings was (rightly) seen as a land grab by the fringe of the party, whereas the same purge of moderates from Labour isn't seen as a reflection that Labour has been taken over by the fringe. Pete and Dave are really not so different. Different sides of the same coin.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Well that was a peculiar interview with Dawn Butler on R4 It's interesting by the way that the purge of moderates from the Tories by Johnson/Cummings was (rightly) seen as a land grab by the fringe of the party, whereas the same purge of moderates from Labour isn't seen as a reflection that Labour has been taken over by the fringe. Pete and Dave are really not so different. Different sides of the same coin.

Mmmm, Jon Lansman the purger of moderates, sounding like an anti-Semite troupe, be careful now...