Tom Watson calls on Labour MPs to prevent leadership contest
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There
is nothing different about Tom Watson's proposal for a "settlement".
He is in fact, siding with the conspirators (perhaps he has been one
of their number all along), in putting forward a plan for Corbyn to
resign and thereby hand the Labour party to group of subversives who
organised the putsch of last week. It was always the plotters
expectation that Corbyn would stand down after the stage managed
resignations. Then, when that failed to materialise, he would quit
after the vote of "No Confidence". In this too, their
assumptions came to nothing. They then had to face the disagreeable
reality, that if they coveted the leadership, they would have to
fight for it. This is where their duplicitous scheming began to
falter, leaving them no option but to begin a war of attrition by
"granting" numerous extensions of time, in order for
"Jeremy to consider his position, and do the honourable thing by
standing down", before they launch a leadership challenge,
culminating in a ballot of all party members. In this option they
have encountered their biggest and their most insoluble problem. In
order to mount a leadership challenge, they have to find a candidate
around which they can rally, a credible candidate who is not already
tarnished with the image of a conspiratorial hypocrite.
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Their much
publicised "dream ticket" of Tom Watson or Angela Eagle was
blown out of the water when Watson ruled himself out of the frame and
Eagle embarked on a "will she won't she" period made more
complicated when her Constituency party came out in support of
Corbyn. The 172 plotters (with no doubt their supporters in the
media) now seem to be embarked on a bitter dispute amongst themselves
trying to find a candidate around which they can all agree and have
again extended their challenge deadline to Monday or perhaps even
Tuesday of next week, to give Jeremy time to "consider his
position". They still cling to the hope that they will have the
leadership handed to them by the incumbents resignation.
Enter
Tom Watson again. with his plan to avoid
divisive battle through
a
"negotiated
settlement"
that would see Jeremy Corbyn stand down.
There is nothing new in the "Watson Plan". It is just
another tactic to
bring
about the resignation of the leader, and to rescue
the Parliamentary
Party conspirators from the predicament that they have brought upon
themselves. We can only speculate on the motivation behind Watson's
intervention at this time, but whatever his agenda is, he is only
proposing the plotters preferred outcome of a Corbyn resignation.
The
veneer of loyalty has been peeling away from Watson for some weeks.
This latest intervention reveals that he, just like the rest of the
172 PLP members, is no more than a self serving opportunist
masquerading as a peacemaker to
end a coup which "could
cause untold damage to the party".
Watson
joins the hypocrites and liars dressed in a suit concealing his true
identity.
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