Thank goodness I'm not a member of UNITE....

[Ken Burch]

7. No, I'm not supporting McCluskey's actions

I'm saying the other guy is not an innocent victim. Were I in McCluskey's case, I'd have handled the situation a different way.

You can disagree with what McCluskey did here and still acknowledge that he has good reason to see Chuka as, essentially, an enemy.

Mr. Umunna devoted the 2015 campaign to attacking union and telling them they had no right to expect anything from a Labour government(he did this at a TUC meeting at one point).

He has called repeatedly for the expulsion of Momentum and spread the false media accusations that the group is a bunch of anti-Semitic Trotskyist thugs. Can you tell me why is it that anti-Corbynites can't accept that people could want Labour to be a radical party again WITHOUT being members of "The People's Front of Judea"?

Any push to expel Momentum will have to mean repeating the pointless Nineties strategy of driving almost all the remaining socialists out of the party, leaving, in this case, next to no one remaining within it. There's no way to expel Momentum and still have Labour be a party in which people who care about workers and the poor and peace are welcome.

And despite Corbyn's landslide re-election as leader, in spite of massive and totally unjustified vote suppression in the leadership contest by the Blairite party bureaucracy, Mr. Umunna has never stopped conspiring to replace Corbyn with a right-winger.

I disagree with the suspension(btw, do you disagree the suspensions or expulsions of hundreds of thousands of Labour members and supporters during the leadership re-vote? Can you honestly say that if Owen the Pfizer Lobbyist somehow won the leadership, and won it by a smaller margin than the number of suspended and expelled voters, his victory in that instance would have had any legitimacy? Those suspensions and expulsions were no more legitimate than this) but it's comprehensible why McCluskey might have been in the frame of mind to impose it. MPs like Chuka don't care about the workers. If they did they wouldn't be "moderates".

BTW, Iwould have voted Remain(as Corbyn voted and campaigned). And I'm disappointed that Leave prevailed. The problem is, there's no way to fight to keep Britain in the EU that isn't elitist and antidemocratic. And there's no reason to think THAT fighting to stay in the EU would result in anything but UKIP staying in business and continuing to gain votes in the North and Northeast of England.