Jeremy Corbyn reshuffles his Cabinet and champions democracy
Jeremy Corbyn is in the mire. Can he survive the storm raging inside the Labour Party and remain as its leader? The grassroots Labour Party like Corbyn – they voted him in. The new Labour Party want him out. The mutineers who have resigned from Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet want him out, seizing on the EU Referendum result to get shot of Corbyn. Helpfully, Jeremy has issued a statement:
Our country faces a huge challenge following Thursday’s vote to leave the European Union. And the British people have a right to know how their elected leaders are going to respond.
David Cameron resigned. Well, it was his referendum.
We need to come together to heal the divisions exposed by the vote.
Which is why he, er, sacked Hilary Benn as his shadow foreign secretary.
We have to respect the decision that has been made, hold the government to democratic account over its response, and ensure that working people don’t pay the price of exit.
Many of those “Working people” voted for Brexit. What does he man by working people? Does he discount the students and the pensioners – they who will pay in to the big pot and they worked all their lives to live on a pension, respectively?
Neither wing of the Tory government has an exit plan.
They do. This morning Chancellor George Osborne’s made a statement on the impact of the vote leave EU referendum. He said:
It is inevitable, after Thursday’s vote, that Britain’s economy is going to have to adjust to the new situation we find ourselves in.
In the analysis that the Treasury and other independent organisations produced, three particular challenges were identified – and I want to say how we meet all three.
First, there is the volatility we have seen and are likely to continue to see in financial markets.
Those markets may not have been expecting the referendum result – but the Treasury, the Bank of England, and the Financial Conduct Authority have spent the last few months putting in place robust contingency plans for the immediate financial aftermath in the event of this result. We and the PRA have worked systematically with each major financial institution in recent weeks to make sure they were ready to deal with the consequences of a vote to leave.
Back to Corbyn:
One clear message from last Thursday’s vote is that millions of people feel shut out of a political and economic system that has let them down and scarred our country with grotesque levels of inequality.
Yep. They voted to reject The European Union.
I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics. I regret there have been resignations today from my shadow cabinet. But I am not going to betray the trust of those who voted for me – or the millions of supporters across the country who need Labour to represent them.
Democracy will out.
Those who want to change Labour’s leadership will have to stand in a democratic election, in which I will be a candidate.
And he’ll win again. Our bet is he wins by an even larger majority.
Over the next 24 hours I will reshape my shadow cabinet and announce a new leadership team to take forward Labour’s campaign for a fairer Britain – and to get the best deal with Europe for our people.
Now hands up who wants to join Corbyn on the losers’ table?
Posted: 27th, June 2016 | In: Politicians Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
