UK Labour MPs who backed Syria strikes face online trolling

Old Southwark and Bermondsey MP Neil Coyle, who voted in favour of bombing, has revealed that he feared for his pregnant wife’s safety after his home address was posted online by anti-war activists.

However Mr Wrack – a long-time ally of Mr Corbyn whose union recently re-affiliated to Labour – said MPs could not expect to be selected at the age of 25 and then remain “for the next 40 years without having to have some dialogue and debate with the people who put them there”.

He concluded that “Labour under Jeremy Corbyn is a vehicle in the process of crashing” … right into an increased percentage majority in Oldham, apparently! This was defeated by 390 votes to 211, a majority of 179. If you joined the Labour Party and use that sort of language on either side of the argument, you shouldn’t be in the party.

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

Earlier, Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), said Mr Corbyn’s election “reflected as mood among a large number of people in the Labour movement” that “wanted to see a change in direction of politics”.

Nothing could be further from the spirit of the International Brigades than Cameron’s bombing campaign in Syria. The motion carried yesterday makes no mention of this goal.

It came as some respite for the leadership at the end of a tumultuous week in which deep divisions within the party were blown wide open in the Commons debate on air strikes on Syria.

Germany’s parliament is due to vote today on whether to provide military support in the fight against IS.

It says that we are free.

Mr Benn’s words are worth repeating: “He is not a terrorist sympathiser”. As an assistant whip for the government, his job is to ensure Conservative MPs vote with the party.

So is Corbyn’s leadership imperilled? The speech alone was delivered in a prime ministerial way.

Cameron had no intention of doing any such thing and flatly rejected a retraction.

So is every Labour supporter outside Westminster, Jim.

“They need to be disciplined, and either apologise or recant”.

In a survey of the party membership, 75 percent registered their opposition to the bombing of Syria.

“He warned that Isis was already posing a threat to the UK”. Now, he wants talks and a political settlement of the conflict.

Syria’s minister of information Omran al-Zoubi told the BBC that political transition would not happen without Assad.

At the same time he issued a warning to Mr Corbyn’s critics in the Labour ranks that some of them had gone “too far” in their public denunciations of the leader. And this is exemplified by the weight of voting from the Labour Party last night. The International Brigades were criminalised by the British government, which rehabilitated the 1870 Foreign Enlistment Act, and when they arrived they found themselves fighting a losing ground war, mile-by-mile across Spain.

Mr Salmond said: “His father, whose speech I heard in the Iraq debate all these years ago, and I was sitting in virtually the same place, would be birling in his grave hearing a speech in favour of a Tory Prime Minister wanting to take the country to war”.

The Labour MP for Grimsby, 36, and her fellow MP Stella Creasy 38, were sent the images with the chilling message: ‘Remember this image when u vote’.

An anonymous caller is said to have threatened a Doncaster MP’s staff member with abuse over the phone in the run up to the House of Commons vote on airstrikes in Syria.

Some MPs have claimed they were effectively being bullied to vote against the strikes, with threats of de-selection levelled at them.