Labour Party has landed itself in a leadership crisis at the wrong time. This was the opportunity for them to take advantage of the disarray in the Tory Party and fill in the vacuum created by the Brexit fiasco, rather than shooting themselves in the foot.
Sudden resignations by the shadow cabinet members and the vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbin’s leadership by the Labour parliamentary members could have been resolved in a much better and sensible way rather than confrontation and levying accusations. It is not easy to hound out a democratically elected leader by undemocratic means. Its effects are counter-productive and cause disunity and divisions unnecessarily in the Party and the membership. This could have been avoided but fear of losing their seats the Labour members of parliament resorted to pressurising the leader to resign rather than follow the laid constitutional procedures in replacing a leader.
Now to resolve is issue in a fair way is to have another election of the leader as laid down in the Constitution based on one man/woman vote. All organisations should follow the rules laid down in such situations. Whoever wins, everyone should accept the result with good grace and put an end to the bickering and levelling of aspersions. At the end of the day the majority’s will should prevail. That is democracy and the acceptable way. Or is there another way?
Baldev Sharma
Harrow
