Should Corbyn keep fighting for Labour leadership? He still thinks so…

Most senior from Lord Kinnock, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown to Ed Miliband have asked Corbyn to step down.

“Jeremy Corbyn is made of stronger stuff, he is a man of steel and he has made it clear that he will not stand down”.

Since the leadership row, which has seen dozens of resignations from the shadow cabinet, Labour members on both sides of the debate have suffered abuse – including Mr Blenkinsop, who reported a Twitter troll to police last week.

“Tower Hamlets Labour Party has yet to discuss the current national situation and when we do it will be in the same respectful and comradely way we debate all such matters”.

“But you are talking millions rather than hundreds of thousands”. The answer surely is that it must exist for both. He has repeatedly denied his party has “an anti-Semitism problem”, despite a string of suspensions of party members in recent months over anti-Jewish and anti-Israel comments.

Tory MP Nusrat Ghani (L) questions Labour head Jeremy Corbyn (R) during a parliamentary hearing on Labour’s antisemitism report. I’m not sure who the mediators will be – it’s an unenviable job.

Gloria De Piero was able to articulate this with eloquence on Facebook last week.

“I’ve been clear that Brexit means Brexit”, she said.

It’s all well and good clinging to these noble socialist ideals of the party being a voice of the people and every member standing on a level footing, but if they can’t even function as an opposition in parliament, what’s the point?

“There are many people, MPs, party members up and down the country asking me to resolve this impasse, and I will if something isn’t done soon”, she said. From my experience, this simply isn’t true.

Mr Corbyn said too much investment was focused on London and claimed former Tory leadership contender Stephen Crabb had “seen the light” in proposing a £100bn infrastructure fund.

“It is the last throw of the dice”, the deputy leader told MPs. They’ve lost shadow cabinet positions and potentially face backlash from their supporters at home in their constituencies. “We’re not bloody easy, we’re not listening, especially since he’s weird”.

Smith and Eagle have never tended to appear desperately prime ministerial, nor is there any evidence that they can match Corbyn’s ability to generate leftist ferment. This can break down mob mentalities and help to heal relationships.

A spokesman said: “We have no major financial backers and have not received any loans or donations above the £7,500 reporting threshold since we began operating in autumn 2015”.

In January, the NEC stepped in to take control over the selection of local election candidates after receiving “allegations surrounding the process of selecting candidates”, a move Ms Shah welcomed. After all, how we treat each other is a model for how we might treat the public once we get to government.