I don't think I am kidding myself.

There's nothing wrong with believing that Jeremy Corbyn isn't the right man to lead the Labour Party. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But there is definitely something wrong with not even letting the common narrative that "David Cameron and the Tories are at fault for Brexit" set, before trying to challenge Corbyn's leadership for their own self-serving purposes and establishing a widely repeated counter-narrative of "Blame Labour, blame Corbyn".

By launching their opportunistic self-serving coup now, the Blairites have helped the Tories climb out of a hole of their own digging, and voluntarily shoved the Labour Party down there in their place. These people are venal self-serving fools, who clearly consider their own ideological vendetta against Jeremy Corbyn to be far more important than the best interests of the Labour Party, or doing the job they're supposed to: Opposing the Tories.

What about the timing of the coup.

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