What can they do, they're snookered?

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They can move on this as the members don’t want that and want to be a leftist party but the voters want a niore EU sceptic party and one that has immigration curbs, they’re screwed and I can’t see a solution long term bar a split.

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Major donors can do one.

They’ve been a huge part of the problem, and one of the reasons that right wing Labour got to flourish. Corbyn’s popularity means party is in the black and making money on membership fees alone. We’ll be out in force in Copeland.

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In obscurity nationwide but with integrity.

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Thing about Labour is that everything that will be said between now and a general election has already been said time and again.

The Labour right think the party is unelectable under Corybn and therefore they need to replace him.

The pessimistic Labour left think the party might well be unelectable but that its more important to be principled and besides which the media is biased against Corbyn anyway (not that that isn’t necessarily true) and that therefore they should stick with him.

The optimistic Labour left think that the media bias against Corbyn coupled with the party backers and donors being primarily on the Labour right has underrepresented Corbyn’s chances of winning a general election and that therefore they should stick with him.

You could look up the comments on any Guardian article since Corbyn was elected and its essentially these three groups repeating their positions. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens when a general election rolls around.

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Now I can fully understand being principled and holding a set of values dear that won’t change as a reflection of history and what is still considered sound political policy, what I can’t understand why a split hasn’t been suggested and then ever stranger a coalition on certain important things like health care, peoples rights and the workers rightss.

It happens elsewhere and the modern way are many political parties in the mix, our voting system and party system is geared to strong Government and a broad church of voters opinion within a party, I believe we want more than that nowadays so I can only hope and wish for PP and more political parties in coalition to dilute extremism from both left and right.

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It could be argued that once they split they’ll lose the one thing keeping them together and wouldn’t even form a coalition if they had the chance to. The Labour party is only really held together by its hatred of the Tories.