Jeremy Corbyn fights off court challenge over Labour leadership ballot

[TheDemSocialist]

Jeremy Corbyn[FONT=&quot] has seen off a legal challenge that tried to force him off the Labour leadership ballot, but the party is facing fresh criticism over its decision to announce the winner on the same day as its main annual event for women.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Corbyn’s place on the ballot was ruled to be secure, after Mr Justice Foskett said in the high court that it was “correct in law” for the incumbent leader to have the automatic right to be a candidate.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The case had been brought by Michael Foster, a former parliamentary candidate and party donor, whose counsel argued that Corbyn should be forced to sign up the required number of nominations in order to stand.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]However, Foskett backed the decision of Labour’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) that the leader did not need the backing of 51 MPs or MEPs when facing a challenge.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The ruling means the contest proceeds as a straight fight between Corbyn, the favourite, and Owen Smith, who has the backing of much of the parliamentary party.

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A big win for Corbyn and his supporters within the Labour party. :applaud:applaud[/FONT]

 

[Wiggen]

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Happy news for Vlad Putin and the various middle east terrorist groups. Bad news for everybody else.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

Happy news for Vlad Putin and the various middle east terrorist groups. Bad news for everybody else.

Ummmm.... Explain?

 

[joG]

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If he has so little backing that he is afraid he couldn't get 51 signatures, he is just what labor needs.

 

[gunner]

If he has so little backing that he is afraid he couldn't get 51 signatures, he is just what labor needs.

81% of his own MPs do not support him.

 

[gunner]

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There was no "fighting " of the decision. A judge adjudicated, simple as that.

 

[Manc Skipper]

81% of his own MPs do not support him.

70% of his party members do and almost as many of the Constituency Labour Parties, who will no doubt be discussing their future with their wayward MP's in due course.

 

[joG]

81% of his own MPs do not support him.

I can understand that majority.

 

[joG]

70% of his party members do and almost as many of the Constituency Labour Parties, who will no doubt be discussing their future with their wayward MP's in due course.

It sounds like a party with an interesting period ahead.

 

[gunner]

70% of his party members do and almost as many of the Constituency Labour Parties, who will no doubt be discussing their future with their wayward MP's in due course.

O yes, all those "normal " types that have seen that something in Jeremy!

 

[Coldwine]

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Wonderful. The Labour party's condescension to their own base was sickening to watch.

 

[Manc Skipper]

O yes, all those "normal " types that have seen that something in Jeremy!

I underestimated the CLP's. All but eleven out of 59 so far support the incumbent Corbyn

 

[Wiggen]

Ummmm.... Explain?

What don't you understand about that. He's a professed admirer of Vlad the Oligarch and counts Hamas and Hezbollah as his 'friends'. Not sure that needs much explanation.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

What don't you understand about that. He's a professed admirer of Vlad the Oligarch and counts Hamas and Hezbollah as his 'friends'. Not sure that needs much explanation.

:lamo :lamo You cant be serious

 

[Wiggen]

:lamo :lamo You cant be serious

So I take it from that that you too are an admirer of Putin and consider Hamas and Hezbollah as your friends? Being a Socialist I guess that shouldn't be much of a surprise.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

So I take it from that that you too are an admirer of Putin and consider Hamas and Hezbollah as your friends? Being a Socialist I guess that shouldn't be much of a surprise.

You think Corbyn is pro-Putin, pro-Hamas, and pro-Hezbollah?

 

[Manc Skipper]

74% of the CLPs now nominating Jeremy Corbyn did not nominate him in 2015. In fact, in 2015 he got just 39% of nominations. This time he has 83% so far. The Parliamentary Labour Party should shut up.

 

[clg311]

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Great news. I'm glad Labour voters are smarter than democrats who voted for a corrupt warmonger who laughingly calls herself a progressive.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

~ The Parliamentary Labour Party should shut up.

On the contrary, it seems they may be planning an alternative group.

Senior Labour rebels are so convinced that Jeremy Corbyn will win the leadership contest that they are planning to elect their own leader and launch a legal challenge for the party's name.

Leading moderates have told The Telegraph they are looking at plans to set up their own “alternative Labour” in a “semi-split” of the party if Mr Corbyn remains in post.
Labour rebels plan to elect own leader and create ‘alternative’ group if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected

Happy news for Vlad Putin ~

To be devil's advocate in this, Trump has also expressed admiration for Putin or his style / leadership as have Marine le Pen, Nigel Farage and many others around the world.

 

[Manc Skipper]

I see mass deselections of the PLP if they go rogue. Meanwhile May and the Tories wreak havoc unopposed.

 

[Bergslagstroll]

Wonderful. The Labour party's condescension to their own base was sickening to watch.

The Labour MPs failed miserable with the two options they had either get present members to support a challenger or recruit new members that support a challenger to Corbyn. Instead they now try to burn down the house and create a new Labour party there the party elite is in control instead of the members. This is totally crazy now that we live in a time with so much public anger against elites.

We also live in a time with a lot of public mistrust in the collusion between economic and political elites. So it is both arrogant and stupid of the MPs to choice Owen Smith who has worked as PR chief for a biotech firm as the challenger.

Owen Smith worked as PR chief for biotech firm hit by $762m fine | Politics | The Guardian

 

[Red_Dave]

What don't you understand about that. He's a professed admirer of Vlad the Oligarch and counts Hamas and Hezbollah as his 'friends'. Not sure that needs much explanation.

The latter has been allready been discussed to such a tiresome level that its barely worthy of comment but maybe you could give me a link for your first claim

 

[Red_Dave]

On the contrary, it seems they may be planning an alternative group.

To be devil's advocate in this, Trump has also expressed admiration for Putin or his style / leadership as have Marine le Pen, Nigel Farage and many others around the world.

To be fair i think Farage´s opinion has been as badly represented as Corbyn´s. Both simply criticized the role of Ukraine and by extention NATO and the EU in the conflict and the lack of justification of their side. This doesn´t mean they think that the other side is blameless or that Putin is a good guy.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

I see mass deselections of the PLP if they go rogue. Meanwhile May and the Tories wreak havoc unopposed.

Well, as a Conservative supporter I have to disagree that May will wreak havoc: now, if we'd had Liam Fox or IDSmith or similar (even Johnson) I would agree with you.

To be fair i think Farage´s opinion has been as badly represented as Corbyn´s. Both simply criticized the role of Ukraine and by extention NATO and the EU in the conflict and the lack of justification of their side. This doesn´t mean they think that the other side is blameless or that Putin is a good guy.

Farage's admiration for Putin went a little beyond simply criticising the role of Ukraine and NATO..

 

[Red_Dave]

Farage's admiration for Putin went a little beyond simply criticising the role of Ukraine and NATO..

Well i guess the devil is in the details of what he actually said?

Sorry if im being pedanic about this but this annoys me. We are on the verge of being sucked into a conflict that is as complex as it is pointless at the expense of potentially tens of thousands of lives and yet anyone whose comments on the issue display any sence of nuance is demonized as a supporter of Putin.