Corbyn comes across like an ordinary person really. By that I mean he says exactly what he believes and doesn't often factor in the view of the party he is supposed to be uniting. If his views were slightly removed from the party as a whole maybe that would work, but being that people can't quit soon enough i'd say it's the right thing to do to step down. Sure, he's probably popular enough to win a vote but he's holding his own party to ransom at a time where they should be making gains. The man has principles whether you agree with him or not, but he's not a politician and doesn't know how to lead a party.

I think that you're onto something here as we know that Blair and Straw are due to receive a pummelling from Chilcott enquiry report that is due for publication on 6th July.

Funny how we never hear of The Conservative Party's role within voting for military action at the time when their leader was privy to same MOD intelligence feedback. Without Conservative party voting support, the motion for military action would not have gone through. Their leaders at the time: Iain Duncan Smith ably supported by Cameron; Osborne and co.

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Certainly its looking like Blair isn't going to come off well....

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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There was always going to be Blairite coup at some stage. When the council results weren't that bad it got deferred. But when the shock of Thursday hit then the PLP decide that was the time to do it.

It's all about the sole of the Labour party and the direction it takes.

Read this for details of the coup when revealed by teh Daily Telegraph back on 3rd May...

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Supporting Crystal Palace since 19.45 on 29th August 1972 (approximately)!

A friend posted this in an email. it may of course all be nonsense.

"It now emerges that Hilary Benn and Angela Eagle have been secretly briefing against Jeremy Corbyn for the last 9 months. They have constantly fed information to Laura Kuenssberg and the Murdoch press corps about pending coups and dissatisfaction in the Parliamentary Party.They were planning to move against him on several occasions and chickened out'. The debate on the RAF bombing intervention on Syria on the 2.12.15 was to be the preliminary opportunity for Benn to strike by
speaking out against the Labour line ( which he did to much Tory
applause). This was to be followed up by a no confidence motion after
the loss of the Oldham by-election which was confidently predicted by
the Murdoch press.The plot fell apart when the Oldham by-election was won by Labour, with UKIP in second place and the Tories beaten into third.
Their next attempt was when Shadow Foreign Minister,Stephen Doughty,resigned on air during the BBC's Daily Politics programme on 7.1.16,just before Prime Ministers Questions. Kuenssberg had been briefed by the plotters beforehand and she had fed this information to David Cameron who announced it during PM's Questions to the surprise of the Labour benches.
This plot to usurp Jeremy also fell apart.
All of Kuenssberg's reports which began with 'a senior Labour spokesman
told me....etc.' came from the offices of Benn and Eagle.
Kuenssberg was also informed about the present debacle. The conspirators had received news that Corbyn would suggest the impeachment of Tony Blair if the soon to be published Chilcott report on the Iraq war showed any basis of 'war crimes'. The conspirators decided they had to pre-empt this attack on Blair. It was agreed that Benn would initiate the attack on Corbyn. He awoke Corbyn in the early hours of Sunday morning 26.6.16 with a phone call to inform him of his intention to attack him publicly with a statement of his lack of confidence in his leadership. Corbyn had
no option but to remove him from post.The plan was then to organise a series of resignations with one being announced roughly every 2 hours to give the impression of a growing revolt. This was designed to keep it in the public eye and they would hopefully then encourage others not involved in the plot to join the bandwagon if they thought the ship was sinking.Initially there were 10 Shadow cabinet members recruited. and Eagles was to be the last one to declare in order to separate any association between Benn and herself.She would make a tearful, on-line resignation speech underlining Jeremy's honesty and goodness but saying he had no leadership skills.
"OH ! WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE"