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Corbyn's days (very) numbered?

Ambrosia said:
If that happens I wouldn't be surprised to see Labour split and a new political party formed.
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Yes - that's what Labour MPs who have different political beliefs then their members should do - but are they honourable enough to do it?

It will be the 'gang-of-X' all over again. I guess they will chose a different name than SDP this time around.
 
Ambrosia said:
According to Radio4 on my drive home from work this evening there are ~20 more likely to resign tomorrow.
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I'd be surprised, as I'm pretty sure there are only 27 shadow cabinet members to start with. Also, there are some life-long buddies of Corbyn in there, and two or three who have publicly said they won't quit. Maybe the radio was referring to PPS-type jobs.
 
lionking said:
.......The UKIP must be laughing their heads off.
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Interesting to watch how they have morphed. They were the nutty right wing of the Conservative party to start with, and yet now they seem to be taking the white ill-educated working class from Labour. If Labour had any strength or credibility at all, UKIP would be dead in the water. They have achieved what they set out to achieve (in fact, it was achieved pretty much without them, but that's by-the-by), so what will they be campaigning on at the next general election?
 
ceptimus said:
Yes - that's what Labour MPs who have different political beliefs then their members should do - but are they honourable enough to do it?

It will be the 'gang-of-X' all over again. I guess they will chose a different name than SDP this time around.
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There is no-one with the gravitas or intellectual clout of David Owen or Shirley Williams this time around, so I can't see it happening.
 
Three more shadow cabinet members have resigned this morning, and it's not even 8.30am yet.
 
Five have already gone today. That's 17 in all have quit the Shadow Cabinet in the last two days, if I'm counting correctly.
 
MikeG said:
Five have already gone today. That's 17 in all have quit the Shadow Cabinet in the last two days, if I'm counting correctly.
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Just how big is this shadow cabinet? I'm sure that in days of yore this would be more than all of them.
 
He's a few posts short - no shadow Scottish secretary or shadow justice secretary yet. No shadow leader of the commons and no shadow attorney general. Has he run out of MPs that backed his leadership?

So we have effectively no government as BoJo, Gove, Osborne and May jockey to become the not the next leader of the Tories (who has to push the article 50 button) but the one after the next, and no opposition. Not that Corbyn's opposition ever was very effective.

Maybe Tim Farron will lead the Lib Dems to a resurgence?*


*No, I didn't think so either :D
 
angrysoba said:
Just how big is this shadow cabinet? I'm sure that in days of yore this would be more than all of them.
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27, I think. Someone on Twitter (linked to on the BBC rolling news page) said something like "someone else you've never heard of resigns from a non-job you didn't know existed".
 
Agatha said:
.......Maybe Tim Farron will lead the Lib Dems to a resurgence?*......
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The question confronting him is does he position his party to the left of Labour hoping to pick up the Corbyn-type vote as that party either implodes or moves to the right, or does he go to the centre of British politics, to the right of Corbyn, and hope to leave Corbyn leading a rump of back-slapping comradesl?
 
Ambrosia said:
Cometh the hour cometh the man. If there are any inspiring potential Labour leaders out there, now is the time to step up.

What are the odds on a re-emergence of David Miliband?
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As has been mentioned, he isn't an MP. And I'm not at all sure if anybody would be thrilled if he was suddenly parachuted into Jo Cox's constituency purely to get into the leadership race.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
Has any political leader ever survived these numbers of resignations?
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Not as far as I'm aware.

ceptimus said:
The disloyal members of the shadow cabinet, along with other Blairite Labour MPs have been planning this coup for months.
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Evidence?
ceptimus said:
The referendum with a likely-sooner-than-expected General Election to follow has given them the impetus to act now.
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Well duh. Given the odds of a 2016 election are now quoted as 13/8 they'd be stupid to retain Corbyn.
 
Ambrosia said:
According to Radio4 on my drive home from work this evening there are ~20 more likely to resign tomorrow.
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Currently 12 ministers and 7 junior ministers have gone. Plus 2 PPSs.
Only six of his original shadow cabinet have publicly supported Corbyn.
 
Even Tom Watson is now calling for Corbyn to consider his position.
 
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