Think they should have waited just a wee while

I don't think Corbyn has actually done anything wrong.
But even if he were to win another leadership election the party won't be behind him.
With heavy heart it's time for him to go.
A disgraceful state of affairs.

I was speaking to a party Affiliate/member last night who voted for Corbyn and he said that he and others he knows wouldn't vote for him again.

Edited by Willo (28 Jun 2016 9.10am)

He'll be in the minority. As it stands if there's a leadership election and Jeremy Corbyn can get enough MPs to vote for him then he will walk it. Again.

And people - probably with some justification - will say that's just clueless people in a London bubble not listening and damaging the credibility and future of the Labour party.

But he has a right to put those views forward and people have a right as members of the Labour party to vote for whatever leader they want.

I think it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Had Jeremy Corbyn not been viciously attacked by the media from the outset there is a chance he could have built up some form of positive relationship with the electorate. The local elections were not particularly poor and the by-elections held so far have actually shown increases in votes/%.

The problem is he doesn't fit the mould for a conventional modern politician. He's not media savvy. And he lacks charisma.

He is also approaching the leadership of the Labour party rather like a member of the SWP (or at least his close advisers and supporters are) with purges and closing down of all dissent.

I do however think it is very amusing that Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters call continually for unity and no backbiting for Labour MPs, when Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters have made their entire careers on dissenting and backbiting and showing no unity to the Labour leadership.

"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show

When is Emily Thornberry going to connect with the disillusioned traditional labour voters? Or will she stick to what she knows? Islington South?

COYP

What do you suggest she does to connect? Become a racist? Because when people keep on about Corbyn et al connecting with "traditional Labour voters" what they mean is "let's start blaming immigrants for society's problems instead of the Tories and the super rich who have destroyed the welfare state built up by Labour, sold off social housing and failed to build any new ones etc"

There was someone this morning, might even have been Corbyn I've read and listened to too much crap recently but whoever it was blamed the "successive tory governments" for the fact that labour voters felt disenfranchised.

Believe only 40 MPs supported him in the vote.He will need 51 MPs to support him to stand in a leadership contest. Some of those who abstained might support him but he might not get the required number to stand.

And this afternoon, a further 2 'Shadow Cabinet' members resigned.

Angela Eagle considering standing for leader has got to be joke? She currently can't stop crying all the time. If Corbyn not speaking to her causes her to start crying, what's she going to be like under real pressure? And you can barely hear her speak sometimes anyway.

COYP

Scapegoating when they need to look in the faces of their voters to understand what happened.

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