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Gracesgran Mon 28-Sept-15 23:31:25

Mmm. I think if this is to be a party where all views are welcome for debate this would be the wrong thing to do. I do just wish they would debate rather than taking their bats home though.

rosequartz Mon 28-Sept-15 23:24:13

confused surely Corbyn himself was in the position you describe before he was elected leader, the maverick on the back benches?
Could he be trusted by Blair, Brown, Miliband?
What are Party Whips for?
What would politics be like without a few rebels?
Or do MPs always have to toe the party line on everything?
Who would fund this?

janeainsworth Mon 28-Sept-15 23:19:09

confused you suggested in your OP they should put themselves up for reselection.

durhamjen Mon 28-Sept-15 23:16:35

They do not have to deselect them, just let them know if they want them to support Corbyn more. I know my MP has not been back in the constituency yet to find out what we want - although she has said that she will support him, even though she wanted Burnham to win.
At the moment there is so much backbiting it allows the papers to attack all the time.

janeainsworth Mon 28-Sept-15 23:08:00

Many MPs enjoy personal popularity in their own constituencies and people vote for them even if they don't wholeheartedly support that party's policies.
If local Labour parties deselect well-liked moderate MPs and replace them with hardline left wingers they could find they have shot themselves in the foot.

durhamjen Mon 28-Sept-15 22:47:40

I know some of them were talking about the Corbynista having a purge, so Corbyn said no he wouldn't. Do they not owe him some loyalty for that?
They should at least go back to their constituencies and find out what they want. So much has changed since the election.
They should be fighting Tories, not Corbyn.

Gracesgran Mon 28-Sept-15 22:33:09

I don't think so at this point Jen. They were properly elected and they do represent the whole of their constituency. I think there is a CLP review procedure of some sort - every 18 months or something like that - not really sure.

durhamjen Mon 28-Sept-15 22:19:45

Anyone else think that Labour MPs who do not support Corbyn ought to go back to their constituencies and put themselves up for reselection?
When they were elected, it was when Miliband was expected to be PM.
Corbyn was just a backbencher, who did what he did over the last 32 years with the support of the majority of his constituents.

Corbyn needs to know he can trust people.