Jeremy Corbyn vows to fight for his job

[brooklynite]

Source: Daily Mail

Jeremy Corbyn vows to fight for his job as he faces an attempt by 200 of his MPs to end his Labour leadership after Brexit vote

Jeremy Corbyn today insisted he would run to stay as Labour leader if his MPs manage to oust him in the wake of the Brexit vote.

The Labour leader has repeatedly insisted he will not quit despite claims his poor referendum campaign was to blame for Britain voting for Brexit.

Mr Corbyn attempted to get back on the front foot today with a major speech on immigration, blasting an 'irresponsible' debate during the campaign and demanding the Government focus more on the public's worries about how migrants impact on public services.

As many as 200 Labour MPs are expected to back a no confidence motion in Mr Corbyn if it is called to a secret ballot on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3659204/Corbyn-faces-Labour-coup-200-MPs-oust-abysmal-Brexit-campaign.html

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Corbin's comments that there would be no upper limits on immigration under EU membership are believed to have benefited the LEAVE vote.

[iandhr]

1. Leave was strongest in the north of England.

Where Labour have traditionally been strongest. That seems to be behind the calls for his ouster.

[Craig234]

2. Was he right?

Were there no limits on immigration from EU countries?

[OnDoutside]

3. Short answer is yes, but the truth is he is deflecting away from his disgraceful performance

during the Referendum campaign. It's a lot more complicated than he is letting on. Think of it as Alabama joining the United States as a state and not allowing free movement of those who live there, to another state in the Union. It makes them less than a full member/citizen of the US.

Bulgaria & Romania joined the EU in 2007, but until 2013 their citizens had limited access to jobs and benefits such as healthcare in nine member states, including Britain, Germany, France and Spain. This was to give time for investment into their countries and to give for living standards a chance to rise so there would be less need for their young people to leave. However, it happened anyway.

[Craig234]

5. I heard

A million people from Poland moved to England? (A quick google says over half a million had by 2013).

How will all the people who have already moved to Britain be affected when they leave the EU?

[OnDoutside]

6. Plus the millions of migrants from all other EU countries, including Republic of Ireland. And 1.5m `

British people living on the continent. It's a great question, one that no one has an answer for right now.

[pampango]

4. Guardian: Jeremy Corbyn tells Pride heckler 'I did all I could' against Brexit

Jeremy Corbyn has defended Labour’s campaigning in the EU referendum, telling a heckler at London’s Pride festival “I did all I could”, after using a defiant speech to insist he would resist attempts to topple him.

The Labour leader was confronted as he arrived at the march after giving a speech on the effects of Brexit on Saturday morning.

He said: “It’s your fault, Jeremy. I had a Polish friend in tears because you couldn’t get the vote out in Wales, the north and the Midlands.” Corbyn could be heard responding in the second of three videos posted on Twitter, saying: “I did all I could.”

“I ran a campaign which travelled the length and breadth of this country,” Corbyn said, insisting that while he had “pointed out there were difficulties with the EU” he had also warned of the risks to jobs, rights and the environment of a vote to leave.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/25/jeremy-corbyn-vows-to-face-down-any-leadership-challenge-brexit

[OnDoutside]

7. He's lying. Corbyn's "efforts" could be best described as 'Low Energy'.

[quakerboy]

9. I wonder

If I am honest, I haven't really followed this issue. So I don't know.

But how much support is he getting from his own party? One guy on his own is unlikely to make a difference, if his party is not backing him.

Kinda like the whole Health care debacle here. A year of pointless debate, leaving us with years of argument after the fact about who it was that was that really kept us from getting a better bill.

[Nihil]

13. If they are honest, most people here slagging off Corbyn haven't really followed the issue either.

He is getting a lot of support from the Labour Party - i.e., the 270,000+ membership - but next
to none from the PLP (the 170+ MPs elected/selected during the Blair years).

The Establishment is seriously scared that he would upset their very comfortable taxpayer-funded
positions and so are deploying all of the media spin to cover the fact that they are seriously
anti-democratic.

[Denzil_DC]

10. That "heckler" is a Blairite political operative:

...

What makes a single individual heckling a politician newsworthy? There are dozens such examples every single day that are not newsworthy.

The answer is simple. Normally the hecklers are promoting an anti-establishment view, so it does not get reported. Whereas this heckler was promoting the number one priority of the establishment and mainstream media, to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn. So this heckler, uniquely, is front page news and his words are repeated at great length in the Guardian and throughout the broadcast media.

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The impression is deliberately given that he reflects general disgust from young people, and particularly gay young people, at Corbyn over the EU referendum. The very enthusiastic reception for Corbyn at Gay Pride is not reported.

Nor is the fact that the incident was not a chance one. The “heckler” is Tom Mauchline, a PR professional for PR firm Portland Communications, a dedicated Blairite (he describes himself as Gouldian) formerly working on the Liz Kendall leadership campaign. Portland Communications’ “strategic counsel” is Alastair Campbell.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/06/news-agenda-set/

[OrwellwasRight]

8. Typical neoliberalism.

Let's not examine the failure of the economic model that empowers corporations at the expenses of working families, let's blame "Corbyn's shitty campaign" instead.

When will people get it? The total and complete failure of post-1970s neoliberal economics is what explains the rise of Trump, Brexit, the Five Star Movement, Marine LePen, all of it. People don't trust the institutions that let them down and the "democracies" that don't respond to the will of the people. Jeremy Corbin did not cause this !

[leftynyc]

11. Are you really trying to claim

this had NOTHING to do with the unfettered immigration the EU has stood for?

[OrwellwasRight]

12. No, I am saying calling 51% of Britons

racist is a quick and expedient insult that closes the door to examining other causes of the vote, like an economic system that redistributes money upward. Want to avoid examining the system? Just offer some other explanation. Then no need to reform at all. Very convenient for the 1%.