Have a new leader before Chilcot is the one Labour proposal now.
Jeremy Corbyn - Not Not Labour Party(?), not a Communist (BBC)
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That's like Hodgson calling for Pardew's dismissal.
I heard an interview from her, she was backing Corbyn the other day saying that she hadn't looked at the evidence. The interviewer said "perhaps you should ask him how he voted", she replied "perhaps I will".Pat Glass as resigned already.
Now she's resigned...
Union leaders now meeting, apparently.
Momentum seems to be doing just that. Had to postpone meeting due to overwhelming demand.
Someone give David Milliband a call please.
Doing just what?
I think the unions are going to drop their support for Corbyn soon. Then we can hopefully all get on with what we should be doing as a party.
Gaining momentum.
He's done if that happens.
Corbyn should offer to step down after Chilcot is released. Would be interesting to gauge some of the responses in the PLP.
You'd hope. I have zero faith in McCluskey to put the future of the party above his own re-election hopes, though.
Blair clone . No thanks.
In a nation of quitters, he's the only one who won't quit.
Yeah, I signed up. Feels like the old Militant Tendency, but more articulate.
If he stands down now then there is still a chance of getting a candidate to run that the membership (and maybe even Corbyn himself) will support. The unions will go along with that. Not that I have any idea who that candidate may be.
The alternative is as I said Corbyn vs the "Unity" candidate, which will be so polarising and will tear the party apart. We don't know what will happen with the infrastructure of the party if there is a split and who will keep what but I'd imagine that the establishment will be able to play it better than Corbyn.
I won't forgive what has happened over the past few days but frankly it's clear to me now that they've won the battle and we have to accept that and adapt.
That won't be the reason, not buying into silly speculation like that. She was already struggling to cope with the pressure, said yesterday that she wouldn't be running in the GE and that she's been receiving death threats because of the EU referendum. Add all this craziness to that and I wouldn't blame her for wanting to pack it all in.
I just think the gravity of the situation has forced her hand. I feel for her.
Didn't they just come out in support of him a few days ago?
Ed Miliband has called for him to quit.
The Blairite conspiracy has already been debunked.
He has to go.
The Blairite conspiracy has already been debunked.
He has to go.
Renationalisation of railway franchises as they come up for renewal.
Removal of benefit cap and an end to the bedroom tax.
The construction of more council houses.
Supported Merkel's approach to the migrant crisis. More recently, called for the UK to host child refugees.
Unmanaged immigration.
Increases to the minimum wage in excess of current proposals.
Those are several which immediately spring to mind. At least i think those have been stated as policies, and not merely the view of Corbyn himself.
I wouldn't bet on it. Corbyn is their candidate, they'll be happy to give him a new mandate (and he will win, undoubtedly).
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Before the no confidence motion, before it was clear that Corbyn can't actually fill a shadow cabinet let alone front bench, before council leaders came out saying he should resign, before previous leaders called on him to resign, and before it became clear that Corbyn is quite willing to take the party down with him.
And given that Tom Watson and Angela Eagle actually have closer ties to the unions than Corbyn does, it's hard to believe they're actually keen for him to stay on.
But as I mentioned earlier, some of them have elections coming up themselves.
Considering that Gisela Stuart is likely to play some part in future EU negotiations (and came out of the EURef campaign fairly well i thought), it will be interesting to see if any of eventual candidates seek her support.
Oh my. As much as I'd love him to stay as leader, that would be sublime.
I don't think Gisela Stuart is Tory-lite enough. Yes she was pro-Iraq and against an investigation into it but her voting record on welfare in recent years does include her trying to do something to help so they'll be concerned about that.
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I think Owen Jones mentioned something similar recently and I guess it could work although isn't there the chance it will just be Corbyn 2.0, in that the center and the right of the party will go along with whoever the candidate is for a period of time but at the first sign of ''failure'' they will just repeat the same acts we are seeing now. Ok maybe not to the same extremes but they will certainly try to undermine the candidate again and again and again.
As for the potential spilt I agree with you , if Corbyn stay it's almost inevitable. And as you've said the chances are the establishment will be able to play it better than Corbyn(Even as someone who voted for Corbyn and will do again in the leadership race should it happen, he's really shite at ''playing the game''). But at the same time the Labour Party is now so wide in it's political spectrum that's this was almost bound to happen at some stage. The only reason I can think of as to why The Labour Party has such a wide spectrum is because of our voting system, really there's no reason why people like Hilary Benn and Corbyn should ever be in the same political party.
Still this may all be pointless if the Unions stop backing.
Sorry if this is a naive question but: why are some MPs (seemingly) afraid of what the Chilcot Report might contain?
Some of them will have been part of the government at the time. Those who held positions at the Treasury, the MoD and FCO, could well be linked with (although not accused directly) serious errors or wrongdoing.
Many of them also voted against the inquiry so will be accused of attempting a cover up if it comes out with anything particularly damning.
Cheers, both. 
"It is reported by Robert Peston from ITV News that 13,000 people have joined Labour in a week and 60 per cent of them giving the reason for signing up as "supporting Corbyn"."
I think he enjoys a good support from grassroot populace, youth and Unions. Labour should avoid a situation where their leadership is out of sync with the supporters too. But imo he should go. With failure to deliver on Remain, a new leadership will benefit the party overall more. It should be voluntary and not a coup.
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The other 40% 'get rid of Corbyn'?
Unless it has changed since I joined, the online application includes a section asking why you want to join. So presumably the 40% is a mix of anti-Corbyn and people who put something unrelated or nothing at all. Nothing at all. Nothing at all.
The other 40% just realised it was cheaper than joining the Tories... something
Why exactly do you want him to stay? Labour are pretty much a non-entity with him at the helm.