The Corbyn Conundrum

Labour's attempted coup shows the sad disconnect the party has with it's supporters.

Jeremy Corbyn has been slowly regaining a section of the working class voter-ship that 'New' Labour has been steadily losing over the past 40 years. The insurmountable evidence of Labour's distance is present in the millions of people who voted for Brexit and dismissed Labour's stance to remain.

Corbyn, of course, as the party leader takes the brunt of the blame - but the subsequent traitorous actions of Labour's party members show that they do not represent the people who voted for them and less so the Labour supporters who overwhelmingly voted for Jeremy Corbyn. 

What is sad is that these Labour MP's are intrinsically not working for their peoples interests and instead looking to further their own careers, or distance themselves from the train-wreck that is Corbyn's leadership struggle.

Diane Abbot, a long standing member of parliament and heavily criticised advocate of Jeremy Corbyn has described the media as ignoring Jeremy Corbyn's reserved and nuanced stance on the remain campaign - a stance which focused less on arguing either cause, but stood far to the left, recognising the issues with the EU and asking us to stay and fight for reform. Instead mainstream media focused on political conflict within the Tory party and selling the drama that was laid bare there.

Now the media has turned it's attention to Corbyn, furthering the schism within the Labour party as a large majority, including the Prime Minister David Cameron (who called the referendum as a power play) are telling him to go, blaming him for the Remain loss and the lack of faith in British politics, forgetting that Corbyn's leadership campaign championed a revitalization of politics. In fact, Corbyn's first speech in the House of Commons as Labour leader is quite a strange one when looking in hindsight - Angela Eagle to his right, Tom Watson to his left as the party cheers him on - as he speaks at length about how parliament is too 'theatrical', much to the pleasure of his labour supports. Corbyn represents a movement, away from the childishness of our House of Commons and into a mature and reserved way of dealing with issues that effect the entire country. A movement that is now being dismantled from within by his own party, by people who stood with him in vigilance against the childish acts that they perpetuate today.

I feel sorry for him.

It must be hard to sit in the House of Commons, between two sides acting like children and all directing their aggression towards him.

My local MP, Heidi Alexander, the ex Shadow Health Secretary was one of the first to enter into this coup, only shortly after voting to bomb Syria - and presumably using her previous role as Chief Whip to ask many other MP's to follow her lead, despite the party's official stance on the Syrian crisis.

I ask her and all the other MP's involved in this betrayal to stop, at the least and stand down at the most. Ms Alexander, you no longer represent me or your constituents and you should feel ashamed of your actions at a time of strife within the Labour party. I am by no means a Corbyn supporter, or even a Labour supporter any more - but the values you hold, of selfishness and short-sightedness have left you as nothing more than the Conservatives Part Two.