Seems Labour is going to the dogs
Chuka Umunna has a nerve asking Jeremy Corbyn to “call off the dogs”. In the past two years, Chuka and his cohorts have done little but snipe and undermine the democratically elected Labour leadership.
He shows contempt for the Labour members. As John McDonnell pointed out, calling them dogs is hardly a mark of respect.
For the first time in its history, Labour is a mass-membership democratic party with policies that seek to benefit the majority, rather than the wealthy few.
Perhaps Chuka could tell us what exactly he finds wrong with that? John Bainbridge, Penrith, Cumbria
Chuka Umunna has been censured by John McDonnell for a “grotesque slur” on Labour members.
Yet Mr McDonnell says nothing about Boris Johnson’s remarks likening the PM’s handling of Brexit to a suicide bomber. This is the problem with Labour – we are far too busy attacking our own.
We have the most divided Tory Party in a generation, but Labour is in meltdown, mired in the antiSemitism fiasco and with moderate MPs possibly facing
deselection. I despair. Keith Bowman Chesterfield, Derbys Someone needs to ask Chuka Umunna why he wants to carry on representing the Labour Party. He expresses dissatisfaction with the party leader, the Shadow Cabinet, their policies and their refusal to support another Brexit referendum, and now he is up in arms about constituency selection and deselection policy.
It’s time Umunna realised while he whinges about Jeremy Corbyn, there are millions of people suffering at the hands of this heartless Tory government. Len Goodwin Doncaster
Chuka Umunna asks Corbyn to call off the dogs, but they are not Corbyn’s to call off, they are Jon Lansman’s of campaign group Momentum.
Corbyn is a prisoner of Momentum since they raised party membership and contributions to the party coffers.
They want a new leftwing Labour Party and are hijacking the loyal, traditional Labour vote to achieve it.
But Labour will never win without the middle-ground vote. Dennis Archer Barnsley
Chuka Umunna has got a cheek telling Jeremy Corbyn to “call off the dogs” because MPs are getting votes of no confidence. It has nothing to do with Corbyn, it’s because the local CLPs believe these MPs do not represent them, which is what they were
chosen to do. A Kendall Halewood, Merseyside Labour’s Frank Field, Tony Blair and now Chuka Umunna purport to be dyed-inthe-wool Labour politicians, but any supporter worth their salt would be backing the leadership to the hilt during this important political phase. Instead, they’re helping the party implode. Neil Atherton St Helens, Merseyside It feels like we’re back in the 1980s. The nasty party in power, a woman PM, a left-wing Labour leader vilified by the right-wing press and his own right-wing MPs, and the spectre of another SDP-style breakaway party ruining Labour’s chances of winning an election. History is repeating itself. C White, Bristol