So Now Labour Deselections Begin

[scooping]

Luciana Berger MP, Labour, Liverpool Wavertree, first to face Corbynite/Momentum/Trot calls for deselection for not being sufficiently pro The Great Leader. There are also claims of anti-semitism.

[naomi24]

Jim, like many other megalomaniacs he’s good at whipping up the masses. That’s about the best I can say for him.

[Kromovaracun]

Claims of antisemitism are just that, claims. Until there's evidence.

Momentum have been agitating for deselection for ages now and it has not happened. They are a bunch of tits and I dearly wish they would shut up.

[Kromovaracun]

As to whether she should "get on board" with the leadership or not, I daresay Momentum have probably made that outcome more difficult for her by kicking up this much of a stink, because now whichever decision she takes looks bad for the party (it's also fairly typical, in my experience of knowing a few Momentum people, of their complete unwillingness to countenance anything like political strategy because it's either too boring or not pure enough). Corbyn himself has a long history of rebelling against the leadership, and it's important for MPs to have that choice if they want to.