Labour frontbencher Wayne David MP has this morning resigned from Labour’s frontbench and called on Jeremy Corbyn to step down as Labour Leader.
Mr David has written to Jeremy Corbyn explaining why he feels that he can no longer continue on Labour’s frontbench and why Jeremy Corbyn ought to step down from the leadership of the Labour Party.
In his letter, Mr David says that Mr Corbyn’s “lack of enthusiasm” for Labour’s Referendum campaign and his response to the Referendum result has highlighted Mr Corbyn’s inability to be an effective Leader.
The Caerphilly MP, who was a critic of Mr Corbyn before the leader’s election last year, resigned from Labour’s frontbench and called on him to “do the right thing in the interest of the Party and the country”.
Mr David was the Shadow Minister of State for Justice, with responsibility for constitutional matters, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, with responsibility for electoral matters, and Shadow Minister of State for Scotland.
https://caerphilly.observer/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Wayne_Davids_Resignation_Letter.pdf
Mr David is the latest name to resign from Mr Corbyn’s team and follows 11 others. The flurry of resignations come after the sacking of Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn over the weekend.
Mr Benn had reportedly been trying to encourage other frontbenchers to resign if Mr Corbyn ignored a motion of no confidence brought against him by Labour MPs Dame Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey.
This was inevitable as WD made it clear from the start he didn’t vote for Corbyn. Looks like Jeremy is on his way out and Hillary will be the next labour leader. Out with the old red guard and in with another Blairite.
I have a feeling that if he wants to stand once more Corbyn will win a leadership election. it is pretty apparent that Labour has split into two separate parties, the Parliamentary wing which has London Metropolitan view and the grass roots which have remained a closer affinity to traditional Labour Party values.
Many Labour MPs would not accept that Corbyn had been overwhelmingly elected to be in charge of them and have reacted in a similar way to the British people voting to leave the EU. This indicates that for many Labour MPs democracy is something that only counts if things go their way.
The Labour Party is split between the metropolitan Blairites and creaky old commie revolutionaries waving the red flag. Neither are an use to the White, heterosexual, able bodied, working class British man. A choice between a declining Roman elite with their snouts in the trough and the Judean peoples front.
Long live the people’s front of Judea.
I think, you under estimate the resiliance of JC supporters.
It seems he is determined to only listen to the hundreds of thousands of grass root members of Labour who he is intent on ensuring will have their say – Respect for the man
Otherwise I agree with you.
I do have a grudging respect for the man. I disagree with everything he says but I know he at least believes it. I realised he didn’t play a large role in the remain campaign on purpose because he didn’t want to stay in Europe so stepped back and played a cleverer game.
I will add the caveat that I’m still undecided whether he is focused or arrogant , the jury is still out on that one.
Two major errors of judgement by the leaders of the biggest parties in Britain. Cameron should have stood back at a dignified distance from the campaign. He is obviously pro EU but should have said “I am Prime Minister of Great Britain & Northern Ireland and promise to implement the will of the people after this referendum.” If he had said that he would still have a job.
Corbyn is obviously not a supporter of the EU and should have told the parliamentary party that in unequivocal terms. He would then have been on the wining side and in a strong position to deal with his enemies in the Labour party that cannot bring themselves to accept that he was elected.
I wonder who it is that advises these politicians? If they want to give me a call I will be willing to give them sound advice, for a modest consideration of course!
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”
I think they both had other factors to consider when showing their hands and chose not to be courageous.
Yes, sums it up about right.
Large Role or not in JC`s constituency they voted by almost 60/40 to REMAIN
Whilst in Caerphilly and other areas of Wales where other Labour MPs canvessed long and hard on a REMAIN ticket, the result was almost completely opposite or even more decively for LEAVE,
I don’t understand your point. Are you suggesting that he is bound to the will of his constituents in opposition to the country?
I am saying that even by default, by JC playing a soft role in the campaign, his own Labour constituency voted by a huge majority to leave, a vote against the labour party position, yet, in Caerphilly WD played a high profile and active role in the Remain campaign yet his constituency vote by a large majority to LEAVE,AGAINST Labours policy. so my point is, I suppose, WHO IS REALLY IN TOUCH WITH LABOUR MEMBERS.
The smilling assassins in the labour party came out of their bunkers last weekend, and it appears their moves were clearly designed to rid the party of Corbyn, Angela whatshername has shown her colours by setting up a facebook domain Angels 4 leader, FOUR days before Benn was sacked before he could resign, and, a large international Publc Relations firm working out of London were also advising on Corbyns removal. it appears that the labour party are far better at these things than the Tories, Long Knives and all that, even the beheading of Boris by Gove.
I pass no judgement on the need or not to remove Corbyn. but those involved show exrtaordinery Machiavellian principles, The sly ones. The cunning. The manipulative ambitious and the unscrupulous.
Right. I think I understand where you are coming from now. The drama that is the current Labour Party will play out in Machiavellian tones that is for sure and we haven’t seen the half of it yet. The majority of its MPs are Blarite vs Corbyn and the majority of its members who uber left wing reds (even to their own and our detriment) and it’s socially conservative but working class voters as the referendum has shown them to be don’t sit well among each other.
A house divided etc.
But to be honest I couldn’t care less what happens to the Labour Party in so far that it stays disheveled and out of power.
Likewise I would also say the same about the Torys. As Peter Hitchens has said on numerous occasions, “Both parties are essentially dead parties that lean on the hatred of each other and their own rigamortis to remain standing, should one collapse the other will also fall and from them real parties may emerge.” (Paraphrasing from memory)
I hope JC stays at the head of the Labour Party and it remains unelectable as both the Corbynite and Blairite factions are destructive by nature and would do their utmost to reverse any gains we have made by leaving the EU such as migration. But then again so would Teresa May and a few other Tories.
What is happening to the Labour party and Wayne Davids role within it?
Website registration data appears to show that the domain “angela4leader.org” was set up two days before she resigned
It also came before Hilary Benn was sacked by Jeremy Corbyn early
Sunday morning – the spark that set off a major rebellion in the Labour
shadow cabinet.Angela Eagle is expected to announce a run for the leadership of the Labour Party in the coming days.
The website was registered at 6pm on Saturday 25 June, according to its publicly available “whois” information – while Mr Benn was sacked hours later.
it was was not registered by Angela Eagle herself, but Joe McCrea, a PR
executive who served as a special adviser in Downing Street during Tony
Blair’s tenure.
A spokesperson for Angela Eagle admitted to Buzzfeed that she knows Mr McCrea personally, but said she had not unauthorised the purchase and had been unaware of its existence. Angela Eagle did not cite Mr Corbyn’s move to sack Mr Benn as a reason for her resignation from the shadow cabinet on Monday morning.However, the discovery may damage her credibility among supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, and may convince critics that some Labour figures if not necessarily Angela Eagle herself had prior knowledge of the shadow cabinet moves on Corbyn. You coudl`nt make this lot up.
That’s just politics and contingency plans. I don’t see any news there, a number of players may well have done the same should they have thought of it.