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Thread #157929   Message #3734400
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
31-Aug-15 - 08:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: electing a new labour leader
Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
The biggest problem for Jeremy Corbyn, if he wins the leadership, isnt so much going to be the attacks he'll get from the Tories and the right-wing papers, it's going to be the hostility of Labour MPs and so forth.

There's a story about a new MP making his first visit to the chamber after being elected. He talks about the excitement he feels about facing "the enemy" opposite. A Veteran MP shakes his head ."They aren't the enemy. They are your adversaries. Your enemy here are the bastard behind you and all round you."

That's more true for Corbyn than for anyone. He's got plenty of friends out in the party, but in the House of Commons there are pretty few.kkk