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In reply to the discussion: Oh My! Boris Johnson rules himself out of Tory leadership race after Gove ditches him [View all]OnDoutside
(19,952 posts)Stalin's grandson. It's $5 to join the Labour Party. Quite a number of PLP members are only too cognisant of the disloyalty shown by Corbyn to successive party leaders and his pursuit of his own agenda at all times.
There are times when membership of the PLP means grinning and bearing it in the face of angry voters, cranky union bosses and vile Tory press scum (i.e. most media) but party solidarity may demand it. Successive MPs have had to make that choice and they regard Corbyn as a poor leader because he has always indulged his ''integrity'' to distance himself from the others. If politics was easy, they'd all be at it. And no. it is not mere pragmatism, that oft derided word but taking the longer view and saving the interests of those of the populace who voted for your party and not just the Dave and Deirdre Sparts of the hard left.
And no matter what the stated policies of Corbyn and his inner circle, they are hard left and not representative of those who are in their positions because of the ultimate validation, the voters, not the members of the PLP.