Thread by @fascinatorfun

“Party democracy is the enemy of conscience and judgment. To borrow a phrase, the party has become the enemy of the people.
Who does your MP represent? Who are they frightened of? You and your neighbours?”

Biting of our political classes by ⁦@NickCohen4⁩ but so true.

“We have had to wait until 2019 for our anti-democratic counter-revolution. Only now will we have a PM chosen by members who are overwhelmingly white, southern, old and wealthy, as everyone says, but also extraordinarily conceited, a point I could do with hearing more often. “

“In 2016, Labour MPs, who represented millions of Labour voters, told Jeremy Corbyn to go by 172 votes to 40. Labour members overruled them. “

Now Corbyn and his clique dip and weave to avoid and dilute Party membership.

How ironical is that?

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“In retrospect, it appears sinister: the more so as Corbyn and his aide Seumas Milne are now inciting party members to frighten MPs into silence.”

This is so true.

“If Panorama had aired whistleblowers from a corporation, describing how they had been undermined, bullied and forced out of their jobs, had breakdowns and contemplated suicide, for the “crime” of investigating institutional racism,...

the chief executive would have been forced for the sake of appearances to promise to mend his ways.

Corbyn unleashed his “outriders” instead: supposed journalists who owe their loyalty to the Labour party press office rather than their readers and editors.”

I do not want to hear from members blaming the 4 Ms, Milne, McCluskey, Murphy and Murray.

Corbyn IS the Labour Party Leader even if those who call for other heads are too weak or too dishonest or tricky to look that fact in the eye.

The buck IS his. He chose to give them power