Two naïve backbenchers, adding their "weight" to the media crusade against the Labour party leadership
"We nominated Jeremy Corbyn. Now we regret it"
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| Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark |
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| Jo Cox.MP for Batley and Spen |
Jo
Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, first elected in 2015, who nominated
Jeremy Corbyn, but voted for the Blairite candidate Liz Kendall in
the subsequent leadership election, and Neil Coyle, the MP for
Bermondsey and Old Southwark also first elected in 2015. today seek
out an opportunity to continue the duplicitous plotting against the
leadership of the Labour party and Jeremy Corbyn.
In
their joint article in the Observer, reacting to the local election
results of Thursday last (5th May) they state that the
results for Labour could have been much worse, but could and should
have been much better. In support of this rather patronising remark,
they bizarrely suggest that Labour should have given the Tories a
“good kicking” due to the chaos
and discord in our hospitals and schools, an unprecedented housing
crisis and fat
cats
lining their pockets, while life gets tougher for everybody else.
They
then go on to offer the even more bizarre explanation
as
to why the “drubbing” of the Tories did not happen, as being
primarily due (in their opinion) to weak leadership and a mistaken
sense of priorities creating distraction after distraction and which
has stopped (us) getting our message across.
What
these two naïve backbenchers fail to realise, either by accident or
more probably design, is
that the “distractions” and the “failure to get the message
across” is due squarely to the plotting and scheming by Mann,
Cooper, Hunt, Hodge
and a few others within the PLP, and
now joined by Coyle and Cox, seeking
to remove the party leadership and replace it with their own
interpretation of Blairite policy. The
rest of the party, its membership and other volunteers are striving
to promote policies putting people first
and to restore confidence and trust in a party which for many years
had betrayed ordinary people and offered only marginal variations of
what was essentially no more than Tory policies in a different colour
box. The “plotters”, enthusiastically encouraged and supported by
television and the media have ensured that public attention is by and
large, directed towards the leadership and the attempt to remove
Jeremy Corbyn, rather than the issues facing the
United Kingdom today.
The
majority of the PLP who incidentally support the leadership and the
wider membership of the party who gave Jeremy Corbyn an overwhelming
majority in the leadership election, are
being forced to wage a war on two fronts. One against a
small section of the PLP who seek to advance their own political
ambitions and
the other against the excesses and vested interests of the
conservatives and their government which collectively
has done so much damage to our country and society.
The
“U turns” forced upon the government over recent weeks, Academy
Schools, Welfare payment cuts, Trade Union reforms, Hospital Doctors
contracts, TATA
Steel
and others have not been brought about by accident. While
the usual suspects in the PLP have been conspiring for their own
purposes with the media, the rest of us have been working for the
people we represent.
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I
have written elsewhere that we
must
never
allow
the hypocrites and
liars to gain control of our party. Joe
Cox and Neil Coyle would do well to bear that in mind, and as John
McDonnell said yesterday when directing a comment to the conspirators
within the PLP, “Either put up or shut up”.
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