Jezza Walks It

[Jackdaw33]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37461219

[bhg481]

I hear what you're saying Mikey but there will be a lot of Labour Voters who won't vote with Corbyn and they'll either have to vote for another party or abstain at the next election.

[Peter Pedant]

Great
that is great news
the tories will be in for at least another ten years

[mikey4444]

bhg....The Labour Party offers a real alternative to the Tories, unlike the LibDems, who broke a gold-plated pre-election promise over tuition fees.

UKIP is just the military wing of the Tory Party, and have promised that they were going to "change the face of British politics" but only managed to get one MP elected, and he's hardly flavour of the month with the Party in general. Dead in the water.

If people want a get rid of the Tories, then a Labour vote is the only game in town....its been like that for all my lifetime and I can't see that changing.

[Prudie]

Blair had a landslide because a) he was very charismatic b) because he was a closet Tory. I voted for him. Many people vote in elections based on who the PM will be therefore Labour are screwed with Corbyn.

[lindapalmara]

//R.I.P Labour Party....Gaskell and Bevan must be rolling in their graves//

I wish Blair was rolling in his! I'm glad Corbyn won, it's the best news. That's the Tories in power for at least nine years if not more

[Jackdaw33]

That's about the sum of it, Prudie, though I never got as far as voting for Blair.

[mikey4444]

Prudie....how do you know that people won't vote for Corbyn ?

You and I voted for Blair, because you wanted to see the back of Major, and many millions of others did likewise.

If we want to get rid of the Tories, then Labour is the only way. People will come back to Labour, when they realise that, as they always have done in the past. The SNP and Plaid Cymru will help, of course, but there is no other alternative.

[Prudie]

I made a positive vote for Blair not to get rid of anyone. There is something about Corbyn I find so odious I can't even look at him. i can't be alone. I do truly admire your loyalty to the party Mikey but you are putting a very brave face on it - Corbyn is a liability.

[mikey4444]

Prudie....I am on record here on AB for calling on Corbyn to step down. But he has now been elected overwhelmingly as Leader for the second time.

So, if the Parliamentary Party really want to do the job that 9,347,304 people
voted for them to do, they now have very little choice but to get behind Corbyn and start doing the job of Her Majesties Opposition.

Corbyn made an appeal for unity today ::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37462072

Others have echoed him. If we really want to get rid of the Tories, than we have to get behind Corbyn.

[Jackdaw33]

But do we really want to get rid of the Tories? They seem to be doing OK so far.

[bhg481]

I'd like to know how many people whp voted for Corbyn are \labour voters; they might be members of the Labour party but his barm-pot policies encouraged a lot of Tory voters to join the party to vote him in and keep Labour out of office.

[mikey4444]

Jack....no, I don't expect we all do want to get rid of Mrs May and her Tories, at least not here on AB....I am used to being in the minority on that score!

But Mrs May has not shown us how she is going to tackle Britain's worst ills, like an almost total lack of affordable housing, the increasingly parlous state of our NHS, and now education, where she wants t take us to places that no recent Tory has dared or wanted to go.

Its my opinion that Labour has the best policies in those areas.

[HansUrbancka]

I hate Party Politics and most Politicians.

If you want a democracy then it must be a single Parliamentary Party for whom we elect Members of Parliament and opposition comes from within its own ranks.

Hans.

[mikey4444]

Hnas....never thought of that before !....

[Jackdaw33]

It was like that in the 19C. The Tories split over the Corn Laws and the Liberals split over Irish Home Rule.

[douglas9401]

Maybe what Labour ne

[naomi24]

Mikey, //Corbyn has now been overwhelmingly elected for the second time, in an year, by an even bigger margin. Pure democracy at work. //

For democracy read idiocy.