If Corbyn is dumped, why should anyone who cares about workers and the poor bother voting Labour?

[LeftishBrit]

1. To preface this: I think the rebels are doing the wrong thing, and fiddling while Rome burns

This is not the time for interparty fighting.

But:

(1) Most of the rebels (at least, those who were in Corbyn's cabinet to start with) were not doing so on left-right grounds, but because they felt that he was not an effective leader against Brexit, and might thus also not be a generally effective leader against the Tories. Whether this is true or not, they are making their party still less effective against the Tories, by the infighting.

(2) There are reasons for voting Labour, even if it's imperfect, against the real right wing. There are reasons for voting for a dead rat or a block of wood against the right wing! There might have been room for arguing about whether a right-wing Labourite differed much from Cameron , though I'd say that in the vast majority of cases they did; but all Labourites, and many non-Labourites, differ significantly from the people likely to gain power now. People who are likely to lead us into economic disaster at best, encourage a form of fascism at worst. Corbynites and rebels alike need to remember that we are all up against people who are truly dangerous; who are for example not just insufficiently caring about the poor and workers, but waging active war against them.