Labor rebels against Corbyn

Grande débandade chez les travaillistes après le Brexit

Supposedly this is because of his far too lazy support of the Remain position in the runup to the Brexit vote, which he has admitted, but the truth is the office holders and officials of the Labor Party loathe him, anyway, viewing him as too left-wing to lead Labor to anything but electoral ruin.

25 members of his shadow cabinet have quit

Him MPs are demanding he resign but he won't do it.

A defiant Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not step down as Leader of the Labour Party despite pressures from within the parliamentary wing of his party and protest resignations from his shadow cabinet. 

He said that he is willing to stand in a leadership contest again, and will only step down if he loses the confidence of the party members who elected him.

Mr. Corbyn faces a crucial meeting of Labour’s parliamentary party members on Monday where a no confidence motion will be debated. 

Twenty-five members of his shadow cabinet have resigned in protest against his leadership, and even his deputy leader, Tom Watson, appears to be sympathetic to their case. 

He reportedly told Mr. Corbyn that he had lost the confidence of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

The unions have announced their support for Mr. Corbyn, as have a large section of ordinary party members. 

Momentum, the grassroots campaign network have been active on Facebook and social media gathering support for him, and is organizing a public meeting in his support even as the crucial parliamentary party meeting gets underway.

His supporters argue that Mr. Corbyn took an honest and nuanced campaign position, arguing for the U.K. to stay in the European Union, but to also seek to reform EU in the direction of greater democracy, transparency and accountability.

In a recent BBC interview, Mr. Corbyn’s ally Diane Abbott accused his critics of using the referendum result to trigger a coup that was long in the making, right from when Mr. Corbyn was elected with an overwhelming popular mandate in September last year. 

At that time their opposition to the newly-elected leader could not find focus or support, and indeed subsequently many of his critics joined the shadow cabinet on his explicit invitation.