{"id":19958,"date":"2016-06-30T20:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19958"},"modified":"2016-07-01T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:46:34","slug":"jeremy-corbyn-will-soon-be-gone-and-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19958","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Corbyn will soon be gone &#8211; and then &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been the most tumultuous week in British politics in my lifetime. On a large turnout but by a small margin, the electorate voted for Britain to leave the European Union. I still can&#8217;t quite believe that this will happen but I have no idea how it will not.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile political careers are falling like dead bodies. David Cameron expected to remain Prime Minister and has had to announce his resignation. Boris Johnson expected to become Prime Minister and will not even be a candidate for the Conservative Party leadership; and then there is Jeremy Corbyn &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have never been a Corbyn supporter. As a Labour Party member, he was the bottom of the four candidates when I voted in the leadership election last summer. I expected him to be a disaster and so it has proved. He is not primarily to blame for the terrible Brexit decision (that would be Cameron) , but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicshome.com\/news\/uk\/political-parties\/labour-party\/news\/76762\/labour-grandee-alan-johnson-lays-jeremy-corbyns\">the verdict by Alan Johnson<\/a> &#8211; my former boss at the CWU &#8211; is just the latest, if perhaps the most serious, of the many, many justifiable charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Seven months ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18687\">a blog posting<\/a>\u00a0about Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s leadership of the Labour Party entitled <em>&#8220;The growing despair of a Labour loyalist&#8221;. <\/em>It\u00a0attracted a number of comments and, in\u00a0response to one, I in turn\u00a0commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Corbyn was elected on the first ballot in a large turn out in a democratic party election. Labour MPs cannot \u2013 and dare not \u2013 ignore this mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever i think about Corbyn\u2019s politics and policies, I think that he is an honourable man and that sooner or later he will realise that he is not the person to lead the Labour Party to victory and do the honourable thing.<\/p>\n<p>When Corbyn was first elected, I thought that this process would take two or even three years before sanity prevailed. But, every week now, I fear that there is no way we can wait that long or that events will take that long.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This week, over 60 Labour MPs have resigned from the Front Bench, but still Corbyn remains leader. The Parliamentary Labour Party carried a vote of no confidence in him by 172 votes to 40, but Corbyn is still there. Now Angela Eagle is on the verge of mounting a leadership challenge &#8211; and still he is there.<\/p>\n<p>But I remain confident that my assessment of seven months ago holds true. He will step down &#8211; and soon. Then the real work of rebuilding the credibility of the Labour Party begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been the most tumultuous week in British politics in my lifetime. On a large turnout but by a small margin, the electorate voted for Britain to leave the European Union. I still can&#8217;t quite believe that this will happen but I have no idea how it will not. 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