With just one word, Labour MPs reveal utter contempt for Corbyn supporters

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23. So the latest scuttlebutt is that the chosen stalking horse against Corbyn

will be ... *roll on drums* ... Angela Eagle.

Voted FOR the Iraq war, AGAINST the Chilcot Inquiry I could go on, but somebody's already done it for me:

- According to the They Work For You website she has “generally voted for a stricter asylum system”.
- According to the They Work For You website in January and March 2004 she “voted in favour of university tuition fees increasing from £1125 per year to up to £3000 per year”.
- She supported the introduction of ID cards.
- In 2006 she supported the Blair government’s plan to detain terrorism suspects for up to 90 days without charge.
- In March 2013 she abstained on the vote about the coalition government’s workfare programme, the scheme in which people on Jobseekers Allowance are forced to carry out unpaid work in order to keep receiving their benefits.
- In July 2015 she abstained on the vote for the Welfare Bill, which proposed to cut tax credits, reduce the benefit cap to £20,000 (£23,000 in London) and called for £12bn more cuts. According to the government’s own figures, over 300,000 poor children will be pushed further into poverty, with 40,000 more children sinking below the poverty line, as a result of the benefit cap. Child Poverty - Action Group noted “the majority of households affected by the benefit cap are lone-parent households and the main victims are children”.
- She supports the expansion of Heathrow Airport.
- In March 2003 she voted for the invasion of Iraq, which led to the deaths of approximately 500,000 people, according to the latest survey.
- According to the They Work For You website she has “consistently voted against an investigation into the Iraq war”.
- She supports the retention of Trident nuclear weapons.
- In September 2014 she voted in favour of air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq.
- In December 2015 she voted in favour of air strikes on Islamic State in Syria.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ian-sinclair/who-is-angela-eagle

Ironically, the BBC describes her as "centre-left"!

I imagine with such a stalwart record of being on the right side of history ... well, she'll soon be history. Once she's served her purpose and let the more seriously ambitious apparatchiks get their ducks in a row and take their orders from Alistair Campbell or whoeverthehell my imagination can cook up who'd have the stellar lack of judgement to cook up this exquisite mix of bad timing and utter, utter hubris.

On the other hand, she does come with a handy spare, so she'd be able to multi-task no bother.