Jeremy Corbyn wins support for Labour leadership from Daily Record

(JNS.org) The U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle newspaper has sounded the alarm over the impending election of Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn as the next head of the Labour Party and British opposition leader, asking Corbyn to prove he is not “an enemy of Britain’s Jewish community”.

A spokesperson for acting leader Harriet Harman confirmed that the party had called in lawyers to ensure that the process would not be open to challenge, but denied that there were any plans to halt or suspend the process.

The number of people qualified to vote in the election has gone up to 610,000 – more than treble the 200,000 membership of the party at the time of the General Election.

And while Labour focuses on whether it wants Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn or Liz Kendall at the helm, the new majority Tory government at Westminster has been able, as Kezia Dugdale frankly admitted, to “run amok” with its welfare cuts and other controversial measures.

Writing in the Independent, Mr Corbyn said: “I will absolutely use our supporters to push our agenda up to the parliamentary party and get them to follow that”.

Mr Burnham has tried to win over Mr Corbyn’s supporters by insisting they share “common ground” and suggested that the Islington North MP did not want to take the party all the way to No 10.

When they are in trouble the Labour establishment try to claim they are the natural inheritors of the party’s history.

“I’ve taken what I believed to be a principled stand on issues and if people have some passionate disagreement the party is big enough to cope with that”, he said.

Burnham said: “I was the representative that day from a very out-of-touch government who had not been listening for years”. “That’s slightly odd”.

Party member Jo Smith said: “All four candidates have a vision of a kinder society, which we desperately need, but Jeremy Corbyn’s strong anti- austerity message is resonating particularly”.

Harder to overcome will be the effect of boundary changes, expected to work to Labour’s disadvantage, meaning the party might have to gain 106 seats to win power.

If Mr Corbyn was a horse he would be seen as nothing short of a nailed on cert.

In an interview with the Evening Standard, leadership candidate Ms Kendall praised the pair for forming a new pressure group which has been dubbed “The Resistance”. “If I’m invited I would certainly go along”.

Of the three other candidates, Ms Cooper had the best chance of winning the 2020 general election, it concluded, but might have to accept defeat first. “The new person will be elected, but this debate is going to go on for a long time”.

Photographs have emerged that appear to show Mr Corbyn with Mr Abou Jahjah, who is reported to have told a Flemish magazine in 2004 that he considered “every dead American, British and Dutch soldier a victory”.

That they shared a platform was “beyond any doubt and is documented and resulted in my ban to enter the UK”.