citizenJA wrote:They're all Labour MPs until they're not returned or they're tossed out of the party for a just reason. I defend the Labour leader and Labour MPs because Labour is a twenty-first century democratic socialist party representing all kinds of people not just those with trust funds and titles. I think the party is okay right now. I'm not offended by any Labour action here.
Tories do this 'Brexit' horseshit, it's not Labour's.
I am offended by Umunna's action - massively so and it needs to be jumped on now
I speak here as someone who has been vilified and called all sorts because I supported the leadership through the coup attempts, the insults on television, the people in the party leaking and being all to ready to criticise
We were going to be at 20% or below and down to 150 seats according to a lot of commentators - including a number on here.
Labour's position was all wrong on everything, especially Brexit
Despite all this the party got its act together and is in a stronger position than anytime since 2010 - and to be fair I have sen little to criticise the PLP on since the election.
Then this totally unnecessary amendment was put forward by a prominent backbencher which contradicted his stated position only a few months ago, that seems to have no other purpose but to damage the party
Don't tell me that I should suddenly forget the last two years and pretend there are not some who are mightily pissed off that Labour did so well.....as long as they focus their frustration on the Tories then that doesn't really matter that much but to do something as stupid as what Umunna did just makes me angry
Can someone explain to me what the political point of this amendment was?
