Labour leapt into Brexit's fires - and now the party is burning

[Ken Burch]

6. No one the PLP would accept would lead-all they care about is putting a "moderate" in.

And it's the PLP...230 people out of a party with more than 500,000 paid members-who will determine who is allowed to stand to replace Corbyn as leader if he does stand down.

There's no good reason why the MPs, the most reactionary and anti-democratic section of the party, should have the power to determine who the party as a whole gets to choose as leader.

(What I'm posting below is for the benefit of those just tuning in from the States-you already know all of it)

Most of the PLP, at least those in its right wing majority, no longer care about the condition of the working- or kept-from-working poor poor, do not want to oppose austerity, do not want to reverse anything Thatcher, Major or Cameron did, do not want Labour to disagree with the Tories on anything important. They want to reduce Labour's policies to nothing but saving tiny bits of the NHS-although not too many bits or Mr. Murdoch will complain.

They see a future Labour government not as a chance to transform society on an egalitarian or democratic basis, not to help anyone harmed by Thatcherism, but mainly as an occasion for themselves to do photo opportunities with U.S. presidents and British troops still deployed on Arab/Muslim soil or later in Ukraine, until the time comes to acquire life peerages and move into corporate directorships.

The sad truth is, if anyone the PLP approved actually managed to win an election-it's obvious that none of them can-you wouldn't be able to tell that they weren't leading a Tory government.

The PLP won't let anyone who could win get on the leadership ballot, because they won't allow any anti-austerity, pro-worker candidates to stand, and those are the only types who could ever be popular. It is completely impossible for Labour to ever rally future electoral support on the program the PLP wants-more cuts, more war, more greed.

They know this, yet they would rather destroy the party than admit it.