Whilst as a Conservative it may be easy to watch on as the Labour Party implodes, there are bigger issues at stake.
Any Government needs to have an effective opposition to ensure a robust democratic process and is ‘kept on its toes’.
As the split between Labour Parliamentarians and membership continues it cannot be an effective party let alone an opposition.
The extraordinary circumstances where a leader continues with 46 resignations let alone losing a confidence vote 172 to 40 votes. It is worth remembering that the Shadow Cabinet with junior posts totals 90 positions.
With the Daily Mirror calling for Corbyn to go the message could not be clearer.
Corbyn’s policy stances on weakening our defences, raising taxes on jobs and earnings, racking up more debt and welfare or driving up the cost of living by printing money is precisely the old and failed politics of the past.
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Some of what the Labour leader has said;
Scrap Britain’s nuclear deterrent. ‘I am against the replacement of Trident and the nuclear missile system that goes with it’.
Withdraw from NATO. ‘I’d rather we weren’t in it’.
Abolish the Armed Forces. ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every politician around the world instead of taking pride in the size of their armed forces…abolished their army and took pride in the fact the fact they don’t have an army…surely that is the way we should be going forward’.
Last Labour Government spending: ‘we made a huge mistake in allowing the Tories to get away with the idea that the last Labour government spent too much. We didn’t, we actually spent too little’.
