Jeremy Corbyn is ‘incompetent’ and is failing the people says Shadow Defence

Internal back-stabbing as part of a bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn with Hilary Benn will destroy Labour across the United Kingdom, the party’s leader has warned plotting MPs.

Labour grandee Alan Johnson took a swipe at the Labour leadership and said: “I find this decision as hard as anyone to make”.

He said Labour needed to fight online bullying and harassment, after some MPs complained about the way they were treated in the run-up to a House of Commons vote on whether to bomb terrorist group ISIL in Syria.

“To use an issue of such importance to try to divide the Labour Party is reprehensible”, said Mr Watson, adding that anyone intimidating MPs or their staff “should be removed from the party”.

In the poll triggered by the death of former minister Michael Meacher, Mr McMahon polled 17,209 votes, with Ukip’s John Bickley trailing in second on 6,487, a majority of 10,722.

“We had a brilliant candidate, locally born, stood up for local people, in Jim McMahon”. But I think he should calm down a bit.’ Asked if he was going to follow Mr Watson’s suggestion, Mr Livingstone replied: ‘Absolutely, because I have been often quite angry at some of the criticism that Jeremy’s had’.

“If this was a referendum on Jeremy Corbyn, then he has won”, declared Mr Watson. The votes on going to war should not be whipped.

“I hope our MPs look at this result”.

Former shadow environment minister Angela Smith, who lost her frontbench post when Mr Corbyn was made leader, tweeted: “Am confident #shadowcabinetpurge story is inaccurate; Rosie Winterton is a respected ChIef Whip who offers wise counsel to her leader”. He said: “I am not a member of Momentum”.

It’s also quite alarming that some of the MPs of the Labour Party were undecided on their vote as they entered the debate.

Yvette Cooper, Work and Pensions Secretary in the same Labour government said: “I do not think that we can leave it to other countries to take the strain”. They are not a party within a party. There’s an important issue here – any country which fails to co-ordinate with the Syrian army and the Syrian government is not fighting Daesh, they are just pretending to do so to look good in front of their parliaments and people. “They are a bit of an irrelevance in the debate”, he said.

Although Ms Benn, a Labour councillor, didn’t get that, at least Mr Kerevan went someway towards an atonement saying that Mr Benn had made “a great speech” and adding: “Bet on Benn as a replacement for Corbyn”. It also condemned abusive behaviour.

Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson has dismissed left-wing pressure group Momentum as a “rabble” which does not have the clout within the party which some of its members like to claim. “They need to accept that and move on”. “It is simply unacceptable that people conduct themselves in that way”.

The disclosure comes after Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP Neil Coyle revealed he had been given police protection after receiving a death threat on Twitter when he voted for military action. And this is exemplified by the weight of voting from the Labour Party last night.

British Typhoon fighters have been deployed for the first time in the mission to defeat Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

“And that is why I ask my colleagues to vote for this motion tonight”. And it’s that unexamined hierarchy of sympathy and humanity – that profound, unthinking double standard about which lives matter and which do not – that surely acts as the most effective recruiting sergeant for every kind of anti-western fundamentalism, in the west and far beyond.