 Image credit Daily Mirror Steve Bainbridge Dear Chuka Umunna - When you read a post in the Guardian on budget day in the UK, Wednesday, titled "Labour backbenchers form high-profile group to respond to budget" you have to go to the heart of the story to try to find out what is going on. Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party in September 2015 and has faced a barrage of attacks from within Labour, the Tories and the mainstream media so Mr Umunna what's with the latest piece posted as news at the Guardian? Is it news, spin, real or fantasy? According to the Guardian report an "Alliance of MPs including Chuka Umunna and Chris Leslie was formed to ‘give proper scrutiny to the government’" which could be fine if the team was formed with the approval of Mr Corbyn and his shadow cabinet; if it was not why are MPs behaving in such a derisory manner? The Guardian report continues; A team of high-profile Labour backbenchers have organised their own coordinated response to George Osborne’s budget, fearing Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow cabinet would struggle to do so. If that is true it smacks on another Et tu, Brute moment from the very people who should be supporting the party leader and his shadow cabinet; they could and should be sharing their former front bench experience not using it to undermine Jeremy. But the divisions were plain for all to see from day one of Corbyn's leadership when highly paid politicians acted like spoiled children who did not win the egg and spoon race; they ditched the leader, left him to sink or swim while sticking a few daggers in his back and high-tailed it for the backbenches. Having managed to stuff the PLP with politicians to the right of the party the Bitterites are now intent on doing the same to the NEC so that they can undermine Mr Corbyn further and tear the Labour Party apart. Their protestations that they are doing it for the right reasons have no credibility; the road to Hell is after all paved with good intentions. But we are all Labour and there should not be a right and left of this party but rather a left-wing political party working to hold the Tories to account with the final goal removing the Conservatives from office. Reports in the mainstream media that simply undermine Mr Corbyn will not unify, improve Labour's standing or attract votes; and when those reports are by way of self-serving MPs, some who did not want to stand for party leader last year but changed their minds when the first real Labour party leader in years comes along the writing is on the wall. If the Guardian post has caused anger consider worse in the Sun, Telegraph and Huffington Post helped along by a series of Labour MPs who seem unable to air their dirty laundry away from prying eyes and greedy ears who want Mr Corbyn and Labour to fail. Sadly some voters will conclude that you Mr Umunna, Dan Jarvis and others like Jess Phillips simply want a Labour party that is a poor man's version of the Conservative party; they may also conclude that is because you have it all to gain from some Tory policies and some to lose from real Labour Party politics that tries to rebalance the rich poor divide. The Guardian report adds; Allies of Corbyn played down the significance of the backbench alliance, saying the leader would continue to hold the chancellor to account for “six years of failure”. And honest ordinary people like this writer agree with that assessment. So Mr Umunna "Who are Ya" and why are you not doing your job instead of playing politics in divisive gangs? In July 2015 following the General Election the Daily Mirror report "Chuka Umunna: Labour 'behaving like a petulant child' after Election defeat" was aptly titled but isn't that what you and your 'team' are doing now? Eileen Kersey Other signatories include:
And they just keep on coming, some via comments below others from Facebook groups that support Labour and Jeremy Corbyn and his team.
The consensus for this group of people, including the author, is that we are 100% supportive of Mr Corbyn and want our Labour politicians to follow suit. Time the knives were directed across the House at the real enemy-the Tory Party. [Updates will continue plus additional names can be viewed in the comment section below-please let me know if I have any duplicate names] Apologies to those missed on Facebook as it has been tricky to catch everyone-thanks. April 28, 2016-No reply has been received from the Labour Party, Umunna and others. But it is suffice to say this letter was sent to those parties and viewed extensively online and has reached the target. If a reply is ever forthcoming I will let you know asap.
348 Comments
Richard Kilbride
18/3/2016 10:24:17 am
I agree completely with these sentiments and find it increasingly harder to contain my anger at these MPs determined to undermine the good work of Labour's leadership. In a week when polls show that Labour is moving ahead. These self serving career persists, throw out yet another anchor. Is it any wonder the membership feel they are closer to the opposite benches, than the membership they rely on to get them elected.
Piers Wildman
12/7/2016 03:03:12 pm
Put my name on.
Margaret Laytom
29/6/2017 09:21:44 pm
We pay your wages
Liz Gifford Lifetime Party Member
30/6/2017 01:22:01 pm
We all now need to unite our energy behind Jeremy and give him the benefit of advice in private. Like every human being he needs advice and suppory
liz jones
30/6/2017 08:16:41 pm
Please add my name
alison wright
18/7/2016 11:15:50 pm
I share the sentiments and conviction of this letter ..please add my name too if poss, thank you. Listen to the members! All parlimentary members must be compelled to do their jobs in supporting the leadership and the membership as well as respecting the changing socially democratic needs of the wider UK. 30/6/2017 01:30:16 am
Please add me too...the sooner these hypocritical fools get out of the way the sooner we will move Mr Corbyn into no 1O xx. Redxx
linda jones
30/6/2017 10:12:59 am
All chancres should be removed before Jeremy becomes our PM 30/6/2017 10:39:03 am
Please add my name, or let me know how to add my name
patricia irwin
18/3/2016 10:26:59 am
If we all get behind Jeremy and John we can defeat Cameron, Osbourne etc, if we squabble they are in for an easy time dismantling the country,
bertha Mundy-Castle
18/3/2016 10:27:01 am
I agree with the contents of this letter. Will this 'high profile' group please sit down, accept their defeat, put the party first and let the leader and his elected group do the job of keeping Labour together. Let's go forward to win the next election.
Maureen Hancock
18/3/2016 10:33:36 am
Excellent letter. Please add my name.
Steve shopland
18/3/2016 10:37:24 am
Listen to the member let's stop the in fighting, the Tories and press love it give no ground to the Tories of the press
Angie Hammons
18/3/2016 10:39:22 am
Please add my name - I'm unconvinced that there isn't some spin here, but as he's been named Mr umunna must be given the opportunity to account for his alleged actions
Mavis Clarke
18/3/2016 10:41:17 am
Please include my name. I am from Barnsley and Michael Dugher is my MP and Dan Jarvis is also a Barnsley MP. They should be ashamed of their tactics!!
Mick Webster
18/3/2016 10:42:16 am
Mr Corbyn is the reason for my re-joining the party after Tony Blair and his right wing policies forced me out. Don't take us back to being a pink-tinted copy of the Tories. 30/6/2017 05:49:27 pm
I join the Labour Party two weeks ago I'm a labour member if MPs don't back Jeremy Corbyn they should shouldn't should go this should be ashamed of themselves we are a party for the many not the few but I think they are Tories in disguise if they don't want to be part of the Labour Party go somewhere else I'm better off without you I did not join the Labour Party when idiots like Dan to do damage to the Labour Party they should be ashamed of themselves and the people they represent so you don't like the Labour Party Goodbye we could do without you Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister
Patricia Roberts
18/3/2016 10:45:50 am
Please add my name! I'm furious with these Labour MP's not listening to members!! If it were my MP he would not get my vote next time, or ever again! The arrogance is staggering!!!!
Joan Pritchard-Jones
18/3/2016 10:46:51 am
Please add my name. The party needs to work together and any MP who can't or doesn't want to work with the leader should step down you are doing your constituents a disservice.
Caroline Tipler
18/3/2016 10:50:16 am
Add my name please Eileen, and many thanks and gratitude for your dedication to the cause.
Sarah Gray
18/3/2016 10:52:09 am
Please add my name.
keith jackson
18/3/2016 10:54:44 am
My name too please. This egotistic self seeking troublemaker needs challenging.
Elizabeth Christian
18/3/2016 10:58:07 am
Thank you for this letter. Please add my name. Solidarity Keep the Red Flag Flying High
Peter Cope
18/3/2016 11:03:00 am
Please add my name.
Patricia Egle
20/3/2016 08:14:31 pm
Stop sneaking about and trying to undermine Jeremy Corbyn,he is the chosen leader,and we will follow his genuine Labour views,not the twisted "New Labour" policies which are closer to Tory lines.Get back in your cot and suck your dummy.
Joe Phillips
18/3/2016 11:06:36 am
The sheer stupidity of these people is breathtaking , so I suspect they'll just complain to the press that they are being bullied by those nasty members....but it's worth a try, so please add my name.
Neville Smith
18/3/2016 11:17:20 am
Support your rightfully elected party leader, resign, or hold your peace. There is no wiggle room here! Blairite "Red Tories" will eventually need to be weeded out to purge the party of the wolves in sheep's clothing who have never worked a real day's labour in their life and support business over unions every time. Go and head up a charity if you want to feel self-important.
mike fowler
18/3/2016 11:18:14 am
Chuka, you and your group are three time losers. You lost two elections and now you have lost us, the rank and file party members.
Mike Kennard
18/3/2016 11:19:10 am
Please add my name (Chatham & Aylesford CLP treasurer)
Frank Torr
18/3/2016 11:24:53 am
Your opposition to Jeremy Corbyn is beginning to look like support for Cameron. If that is intentional, go and join him; if it isn't, cut it out.
Debbie Manley
18/3/2016 11:25:35 am
Please add my name. Mr Umunna had the potential opportunity to lead the party and direct policy accordingly, but he chose to withdraw from the race. He may not agree with the direction that Mr Corbyn is taking the party, but that is entirely different to plotting and undermining the leadership which he and this group are doing.
Ken Dunlop
18/3/2016 11:28:48 am
Labour Party member, Liverpool Walton CLP.. Please add my name to this letter
Glynn Smith
18/3/2016 11:33:47 am
Please add me to the list.
Sasha Clarkson
18/3/2016 11:49:29 am
Chuka: you and your ilk were part of Labour's failure last May. Labour's timidity in the face of destructive Tory ideological was lambasted by the world's top economists.
Jan Garbutt
19/3/2016 10:08:56 pm
They are damaging our party,knuckle down and fight the Tories.
Karen Dean
18/3/2016 11:58:43 am
Please add my name. One thing possible to put is Scotland. New Labour was wiped out in Scotland due to Labour policies being to close to the Tories #i.e Tory lite. The comments seen from potential Scottish voters have been the obvious nationalist who will never forgive Labour for joining the Tories over the IndyRef. However, there have been some none nationalist who say that like change of direction in labour to the left but will not vote whilst the PLP continue to vote down the policies that effect them in Scotland, for example Trident.
Peter Morton
18/3/2016 12:02:52 pm
Please add my name.
Patrick mccreesh
18/3/2016 12:11:08 pm
Great letter please add my name longtime labour voter.
Charles Abrahams
18/3/2016 12:11:22 pm
Please add me to the list.
GAHowkins
18/3/2016 12:11:53 pm
Any members of the PLP who work from within Westminster against a democratically elected leader should be suspended. It is as simple as that.
Steve Chapman
18/3/2016 12:17:41 pm
Whose interests are you serving? Certainly it is not those of the party or of the electorate. Please add my name
Geoffrey Spittles
18/3/2016 12:21:17 pm
Go now. You are not a socialist.
Andy Thomas
18/3/2016 12:22:41 pm
I wholeheartedly agree with this, please add my signature.
Sue Coe
18/3/2016 12:23:46 pm
John McDonnells economic and financial strategy is the way to get good long term growth from which the vast majority of members of society can benefit, and will fund the growing needs of an aging society.
Bob Wiggin
18/3/2016 12:31:22 pm
I'm a Labour Party member and I'm disgusted with the actions of these "high-profile" back-benchers who are busily undermining the Party's leadership and contemptuous of the party's membership into the bargain. Please add me to the signatories of this piece.
Steven Middleton
18/3/2016 12:34:28 pm
we need a viable alterative to the Tories not more of the same
Dr Charles Smith
18/3/2016 12:40:02 pm
Please add my name to this list 18/3/2016 12:40:15 pm
stop the treachery fight the people who are stripping this country bare not the party who are fighting the cuts if loyalty is too great a step then go back to the people who put you there and ask them
Frances Lilley
18/3/2016 12:41:53 pm
Please add my name - these self styled spokespersons without mandate shunned their chances for leadership, it was Jeremy Corbyn who is wanted & needed as our democratically elected leader. I didn't vote for them even as second choice.
Mark Trotman
18/3/2016 12:42:05 pm
Anyone would think this gang of 10 are out to ensure Labour's failure in 2020 just so they can say to the left "There, we told you so!"
Juliet Hagan
18/3/2016 12:42:13 pm
Please add my name. Finally we have someone with integrity and passion in charge, and we don't need 'tory-lite' people like you getting in his way.
Claudine Williams
18/3/2016 12:58:26 pm
We need to unite with our duly unanimously elected leader of the labour party Jeremy Corbyn..
Darryl W Collins
18/3/2016 01:00:36 pm
Labour Councillor.
Helen Spedding-Lowe
18/3/2016 01:08:34 pm
Please add my name too! These Tory lights should realise that Jeremy Corbyn was elected by a landslide. They weren't!
Nick Mc Donough
18/3/2016 01:12:10 pm
I am sick to death of these wet behind the ears, spoilt ,self serving and quite frankly nasty conniving little individuals who do nothing but sulk and skulk around and deliberately try to undermine the Labour party. If these people ,(and they know who they are) do not want to contribute then I suggest they ship out!
Lucy McCormick
18/3/2016 01:19:16 pm
Please add my name. I'm a member. Jeremy Corbyn was voted in by members of this party and MPs ultimately should be representing us, not attempting to override our collective decisions.
Anya-Nicola Darr
18/3/2016 01:22:52 pm
Please add my name. Time to accept the mandate of the membership and get on wiht supporting the leadership so we can win some elections! Had enough of the few persistent naysayers who are undermining our standing n the country instead of fighting the Tories!!
Christine Stringer
18/3/2016 01:24:40 pm
Add my name too please, I am a fervent Jeremy Corby supporter and only joined the Labour party because of Jeremy. Cant wait to get him in as PM.
Julie smith
18/3/2016 01:34:37 pm
Please add me too. I too have been a Labour member/supporter longer than most, if not all, those on the list. Chukka is a disgrace to the LP as well as ignoring an overwhelming vote for Jeremy Corbyn
Patricia Sheerin
18/3/2016 01:36:47 pm
I'm a Putney CLP member. We have democratically and overwhelmingly chosen our Leader. Please respect this and refrain from doing anything to undermine him or the party.
Ruth Gordon
18/3/2016 01:37:55 pm
Accept the democratic vote. Full and active member, Tottenham.
john nelson
18/3/2016 01:39:51 pm
If you are not about democracy then leave a party that is and join someone else.
Mags Phelan Stones
18/3/2016 01:46:56 pm
Thank you for including my name. I'm a Labour member, and have voted Labour all my life, but this is the first time in years I really feel there's a leader who shares my views and values. To see his own party undermining him this way, when most of us see him as a breath of fresh air, is disheartening, to say the least...
Anne Gomez
18/3/2016 01:50:22 pm
As a full member of the Labour Party, I support our elected Leader.. Jeremy Corbyn, and I am very concerned that members of the PLP are ,in my opinion, being disloyal to the Members of the Labour Party by not adhering to the official Leader of the Labour Party
Pamela Lowrey
18/3/2016 01:56:42 pm
Please add my name. Full Labour Party member and very angry.
John Murphy
18/3/2016 01:57:02 pm
Mr. Corbyn is THE leader of the Labour Party. Instead of plotting his downfall, have a look at the resurgence of our party and take on board the fact that it is he and not you who has revitalised it. Also please remember that it was you lot and NOT Corbyn that the voting public rejected at the last election.
Yzabel Field
18/3/2016 01:58:50 pm
If it is not too late, please add my name.
Cindy Callaghan
18/3/2016 02:03:14 pm
Please add my name too! As a full member of the Labour party and a Trade Unionist I object in the strongest terms to these MPs ignoring the voice of the rank-and-file of the party. They should hang their heads in shame.
Andrew Dickie
18/3/2016 02:03:49 pm
Please add my name as a signatory, and as a Labour former Councillor of the L.B.Barnet
diane cooper
18/3/2016 02:04:19 pm
As my MP I expect that you reflect your constituents and as many of my peers are actively involved in opposing Tory cuts and austerity measures that rob from the poor to pay the rich, privatisation of the NHS, assaults on unions, pilfering public housing, assaults to welfare and the disabled, aggressive foreign policy and privatisation of our schools system I expect that you ought to unite behind the man who has pledged to oppose all of these things and has a majority backing of the membership to do so. I would ask that you cease your childish games and contribute to those aims.
Helen Owens
18/3/2016 02:08:08 pm
Please could you add my name. I'm a member of the LP. Based in SW Cornwall. We are desperately trying to lift the profile of the LP here. The behaviour of this group of MPs is making it increasingly difficult to do that
Joanna Rowland-Stuart
18/3/2016 02:13:45 pm
Please add my name
Prue Lilley
18/3/2016 02:16:06 pm
I support Jeremy Corbyn 100%. Chuka, you and your motley crew disgust me. The arrogance from all of you is beyond belief.
edward plumridge
18/3/2016 02:16:20 pm
Go and work in the city if all you are interested in is money -
Elizabeth Kenward
18/3/2016 02:23:45 pm
Please add my name To the disloyal band of backbenchers ;
Pauline Lowery
18/3/2016 02:24:55 pm
Yes, let's get them to understand the feeling outside of Westminster
Glenn Martin
18/3/2016 02:34:43 pm
Please add me to the list of signatures.
Jerry Dominguez-Gomez
18/3/2016 02:35:28 pm
If they actually tried to work with Jeremy, rather than undermine him at every opportunity, they would find that he is more inclusive than they could every be and open to reasoned discussion from whatever side of the party. In the mean time all these dissenters are doing is making it easy for the Tories to get away, quite literally, with murder. Shame on them all and if they are purged from the Party they only have themselves to blame.
Cllr Ryland Doyle
18/3/2016 02:59:50 pm
Please add my name to letter
Frances Patterson
18/3/2016 03:05:41 pm
Labour party member and Corbyn supporter. Please add my name.
hugh wilde
18/3/2016 03:09:08 pm
I wish those people would have the bottle to leave our party and set up their own torystyle party independently of Jeremy Corbyn`s Labour party. We don`t need you. You are trouble.
Patricia Melia
18/3/2016 03:23:15 pm
LP Member.would you add my name.Please
Isobel Waby
18/3/2016 03:34:33 pm
time right wing of labour stopped behaving like malajusted kids and accept the democratic decision of the members of the labour party, either accept or stand down... we will not stand by and watch you and your so called chums destroy our party...
Freda Bunce
18/3/2016 03:40:15 pm
I am a full Labour member please will you add my name.
Annette Taberner
18/3/2016 03:44:13 pm
excellent - thanks for writing.
Andy Waddell-Tillbrook
18/3/2016 03:56:43 pm
Please add my name.
coral Jones
18/3/2016 04:11:43 pm
Please add my name, member of Hackney South CLP
Terence Pearson
18/3/2016 04:25:21 pm
I have just watched Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on YouTube (Birbeck University one week ago) I suggest you watch it, then humbly ask Mr McDonnell how you can help.
Liam J Liburd
18/3/2016 04:31:31 pm
Please add my name.
David Belfield
18/3/2016 04:36:53 pm
LP member Staffordshire Moorlands.
Paul Metsers
18/3/2016 04:40:15 pm
Please add my name...with the tories in disarray and more unpopular than ever, this is a gift to the Labour party to really get strong and unite behind JC to topple the tories...they can do it if they unite...not with silly little splinter groups and in fighting!!
catherine powell
30/6/2017 01:29:34 pm
your ego has no place in a socialist party..Unity is the only way forward
Kathy archbold
18/3/2016 04:49:22 pm
Jeremy Corbyns response to the budget was the best I've ever seen from anyone. Please work in unity with your party, not against it. Many people are desperate for Labour to get in, and people still attacking him as 'unelectable' is really damaging our chances. Please, please get over it! He has gained the most support Labour has had in years, so just what is it you're still not getting?
Gillian Rowe
18/3/2016 04:51:08 pm
Please add my name, thanks, and tell those back stabbing anti democratic self seeking party destroying berks to go resign
Helen Annand
18/3/2016 04:58:33 pm
Please add my name. I'm a Member of the party & it is time to accept the mandate of the membership and get on with supporting the leadership so we can win some elections! Had enough of the few persistent naysayers who are undermining our standing n the country instead of fighting the Tories!!
Simon Banfield
18/3/2016 04:58:58 pm
Sling it Chukka. Respect the will of the party membership, this is not your personal career vehicle.
Dave Dash
18/3/2016 05:03:10 pm
Members like me who have been a member for 35 years would appreciate it if you would support Jeremy Corbyn our Leader which we chose, and John McDonnell. We do not appreciate you undermining, backstabbing and disrespected them. If you want to attack anyone, please use all your energy to take on this evil government. In my view, the worst on record even worse than Thatcher.
Steve Cheney
18/3/2016 05:03:14 pm
I'm a Labour member in Chris Leslie's constituency. The idea that he'd bring economic credibility to Labour is pretty hilarious to me, having read his puerile tabloid response to my email about QE.
Jane Warren
18/3/2016 05:06:40 pm
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. I am by no means a £3 Jeremy Corbyn voter. I have been a Labour Party member for many decades.
Elaine Wilkinson
18/3/2016 05:07:26 pm
please add my name... we need to fight the terrible deeds of the selfservatives , not each other !!! JC is the best thing that has happened to politics for a long time
Cath Peach
18/3/2016 05:12:11 pm
please add my name
John Gillespie
18/3/2016 05:14:03 pm
Socialist from birth 53 years ago. Party member since September 2015.
Nigel Bowden
18/3/2016 05:17:48 pm
Burnley CLP.
Christian Baker
18/3/2016 05:22:35 pm
Thank you for adding my name, I am totally behind you as a Labour party member.
Alison Bowden
18/3/2016 05:25:11 pm
Burnley CLP
Jean Thirtle
18/3/2016 05:26:54 pm
Member North Norfolk CLP
DOROTHY Badrick
18/3/2016 05:29:42 pm
I am planning on joining the Labour Party only BECAUSE of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell. I expect all Labour MPs to support the leader, not out of selfishness and greed to wreck the only chance this country has at the next election to save its soul. If you do not agree with the democratically elected Leader the resign, leave, join the tories or the lib dems. Just get out.
Gwen Kneale
18/3/2016 05:36:27 pm
Please add my name. I voted for Jeremy Corbyn would vote for him again in any leadership contest and am heartily tired of the petulant whining coming from the Right wing..We have the best chance for years to beat the Tories and are in grave danger due to this ridiculous infighting
Janice Finn
18/3/2016 05:36:47 pm
Labour Party Member. Wythenshawe and Sale East CLP.
Karen capovila
18/3/2016 05:37:56 pm
Barrow CLP
martine butler
18/3/2016 05:41:26 pm
Please add my name
Jennifer Thompson Houghton & Sunderland South CLP
18/3/2016 05:43:46 pm
Please add my name.
Mike Magee
18/3/2016 05:45:11 pm
It is up to these candidates CLPs to discipline them, preferably by deselecting them and picking someone loyal to the leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Rodney Nicholls Bradford Easr CLP
18/3/2016 05:46:11 pm
Hereward Corbett
18/3/2016 05:51:16 pm
Secretary, West Cotswolds Branch Labour Party
Paula Eaton (Pesic)
18/3/2016 05:51:30 pm
Congleton CLP
Maria Carroll
18/3/2016 05:51:33 pm
I hope we see an end to the plotting and the media attacks on the Labour Leadership. As a labour member in Carmarthenshire, I am constantly being told by voters that they will not support labour because labour MPs appear to be disloyal.
Anna Christopher
18/3/2016 05:53:59 pm
I support Jeremy Corbyn all the way and request that Chuka leaves the party if he cannot support the leader.
Justin Knight
18/3/2016 05:56:30 pm
I fully support Jeremy Corbyn. I am a member of The Labour Party (Torbay).
Jane Lawson (Greenwich CLP)
18/3/2016 06:06:25 pm
You need to learn a number of things:
Pete Price
18/3/2016 06:08:18 pm
Please add my name
Linda Reynolds
18/3/2016 06:10:59 pm
I am a member of the Labour Party for Gillingham Kent. I re- joined the party after Mr Corbyn became leader. This is who WE WANT as leader. We voted for him and we support him. This is how democracy works. I urge you to remember the roots of our great party and support this great man, otherwise you will be left out in the cold. Please be part of our movement.
Michael Weipert
18/3/2016 06:12:14 pm
I thought I would ask some questions If they are so good at this why did they mess up the last election? Why were Milibands and Balls responses ito previous budget statements so inept? Why did they not provide an effective opposition, which suddenly they seem keen to say they can now do? Why have they not supported their leader in vocalising their anger at the PIP cuts etc.? I could go on but what is the point Chuka can sit in his gentleman club and plot such is the way of the petulant and disloyal.
Kenneth Jones
18/3/2016 06:12:23 pm
Labour Party Member voted Labour all my life many decades, I want a Labour Party in power. You are doing a disservice to the members and the leader, disloyalty is not a quality that can be admired. I fully support the Leader Mr Corbyn and wish you to do the same Chuka.
Keren Gilfoyle-McGroarty
18/3/2016 06:16:35 pm
Please add my name and my partner's - Daithi McGroarty - to the open letter. Thanks
Helen Tarratt
18/3/2016 06:23:55 pm
I only joined because of Jeremy Corbyn so shut up and get behind your leader or go join the tories
glenn evans (labour party member)
18/3/2016 06:26:23 pm
If there is one single thing holding back the labour party and its chances of ousting the tories, its those trying to undermine the leadership. .please add me
Mike Levers
18/3/2016 06:27:23 pm
Please please get behind our Leader , Jeremy Corbyn , the person that WE the members voted for
Margaret Holmes
18/3/2016 06:27:54 pm
I rejoined the Labour Party last year so I could vote for Jeremy Corbyn, having left in disgust at the party becoming dominated by Blairites like you!
Deborah Smith
18/3/2016 06:29:12 pm
More undermining. We have a fantastic shadow Treasury team led by John McDonnell, if you have anything to contribute to the budget debate work with them instead of setting yourself up in an entitled and petulant school clique.
Arvind Jadwa
18/3/2016 06:29:28 pm
Chuka, I was a big fan of yours until you betrayed JC.
Jane James
18/3/2016 06:30:09 pm
Please add my name. The fight is with the tories and their swingeing attacks on the vulnerable, weak, disadvantaged and disabled. Any distraction is a criminal waste. Labour need to be united against false austerity and privatisation, not fighting each other. Stop undermining the elected leader and do your job! 18/3/2016 06:34:39 pm
Please add me. South Holland CLP
Elspeth Parris
18/3/2016 06:34:48 pm
Please add my name. Full Labour member, Brecon and Radnor constituency.
Kevin Morrison
18/3/2016 06:37:59 pm
Add me vice chair Poulton and district CLP
Alison Clarke
18/3/2016 06:41:18 pm
Jeremy Corbyn & john McDonnall have been doing a great job challenging Osbornes budget. Umunna and the rest of these backbenchers need to get behind the leadership of the Labour Party or get out. This is an opportunity for the Labour Party to unite & fight the real enemy the tories.
Dugald Ferguson
18/3/2016 06:42:58 pm
I am a member of the Labour Party who rejoined minutes after Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership. I support him 100%. Please add my name to this letter.
Philip Castle
18/3/2016 06:45:56 pm
Please add me to.
Billie Reynolds
18/3/2016 06:47:41 pm
Reading West CLP 18/3/2016 06:48:13 pm
I am disappointed that some in the PLP choose to disregard what over 60% of the membership tell them, and as a result wish my name to be added to the list of signatories.
Bernadette Stokoe
18/3/2016 06:49:59 pm
Member, Arundel & South Downs CLP
alison lush
18/3/2016 06:52:40 pm
Please add my name. I have supported the Labour party all my life, although I gave up for a while as it didn't seem to stand for anything. Now we have a Leader and Shadow Chancellor who mean what they say and are this country's best hope of redressing inequality. I am disgusted by the actions of the disloyal group who think they have a right to challenge and disrupt a leadership that has massive popular support and is turning the tide of apathy.
Kathryn Gordon
18/3/2016 06:54:38 pm
please add my name
Christine Mooney
18/3/2016 07:04:39 pm
Add my name please. I've always voted Labour, but after the last election failure, I was going to go Green. That was until Jeremy Corbyn put himself forward. We need a real opposition to the Tories and he can provide it.
kate thomson
18/3/2016 07:05:43 pm
It's time dissenters were told to get behind their leader or stop the sniping. Constructive criticism is fine but JC gets nasty gossip thrown at him . Please grow up and help this party win and put JC in no 10 to get these monsters out. Before we have no country left to govern
Matt Beavis
18/3/2016 07:08:17 pm
I'm a Labour Party member in Nottingham. Please add my name to the list. Thank you!
Rachel Lever
18/3/2016 07:09:46 pm
I'm a member of the GC of Hastings and Rye Labour Party. I think Jeremy Corbyn has done a magnificent job and really risen to his position. He has been the best Labour Opposition leader I can remember going back to 1980. He has had to stand his ground not only against the benches he faces, but the backstabbing ones behind him. Now, having spent the past half year telling him he's doing everything wrong, your group has finally cottoned on to the fantastic job Jeremy is doing and the fact that the vast majority of the party is behind him, and you think you can switch to "shadowing" him instead, in the hope of muscling in on some of his support. You are SO transparent it's hardly believable.
Catherine Hutchinson
18/3/2016 07:11:24 pm
Please add my name to this list. I am a full member of the Winchester and Candlers Ford Labour Party. I am disgusted by the behaviour of the "Bitterites": self-serving, publicity-seeking and petulant.
Sid Cassidy
18/3/2016 07:12:49 pm
Get behind Our Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party.
Janet McCulloch
18/3/2016 07:15:12 pm
Labour Party member, Galloway
Paul Robeson Fletcher
18/3/2016 07:24:05 pm
You are entitled to hold different opinions on policies with the Labour Party- but stop overtly/implicitly and publically conspiring against our democratically elected leader. It is undermining and disrespectful of the majority of Labour membership and activists who are inspired by JC principles and leadership.
Paul Ewart
18/3/2016 07:50:02 pm
A message to the Price Waterhouse Cooper funded MP for Streatham Chuka Umunna and his Second XI: Please respect the democratic mandate of Labour members and support the leader. You had your chance but when confronted with the opportunity to back up your words with actions, lacked the courage or conviction to do so.
Maryanne Christie
18/3/2016 07:55:16 pm
I re-joined the Labour Party the day Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader along with thousands of others. If all you Tory lites don't like having a real Socialist as your leader, then I strongly advise you to leave.
Patricia Betty
18/3/2016 08:00:12 pm
Brilliant piece Tells it just like it is. Those MPs are tearing the Party apart. They should all be made to resign
Christopher Gray
18/3/2016 08:01:02 pm
Labour Party members joined because of the return to real values represented by Jeremy Corbyn. We're behind him, why aren't you?
Richard Christie
18/3/2016 08:08:30 pm
I think Ummuna and his cohorts have conveniently forgotten something very important: namely that the Tory-lite wing of the Labour Party which they represent LOST THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS! They are not and never have been socialists. It is time for them to go. Corbyn is the future. Blair is the past
Andy Coombes
18/3/2016 08:16:39 pm
Andy Coombes; Stroud CLP
Elizabeth Pettit
18/3/2016 08:25:29 pm
Stop doing the Tories work for them and unite behind our leader. 18/3/2016 08:29:19 pm
very disappointed in you Mr Umunna,
Maria Lucia Cavaliere
18/3/2016 08:33:03 pm
We, members of the labour party, have had enough of you, Chucka, and your friends. We made a clear choice and we chose Corbyn. If it bothers you, Dan Jarvis, Jesse Phillips, you should leave the party and join either the LibDems or the Tories. Let Jeremy get on with his job and all of you, please,.give it a rest.
Lisbeth Bourne
19/3/2016 12:01:43 am
Please add my name Bury CLP
Graham Askew
18/3/2016 08:43:13 pm
add me please as a Corbyn supporter
Simon Reid
18/3/2016 08:44:57 pm
Please add my name to the above open letter
Max Wootton
18/3/2016 08:45:24 pm
18/3/2016 08:49:16 pm
Man Up Chukka ,We Get Rid Of You ,JEREMY CORBYN Won the Vote Accept It or Get Lost
Simon Wormald
18/3/2016 08:51:22 pm
Please add my name to the letter. I feel it's very important that the Labour party devotes its full energy to removing this extreme right wing government. Either put up or shut up we have elected out leaders.
Rachel Littlewood
18/3/2016 08:52:27 pm
Please add my name. I am a full LP member. Newark
Gill Eddy
18/3/2016 08:53:20 pm
Could you please add my name?
Mary wardle
18/3/2016 08:53:21 pm
Please add my name
David Roberts
18/3/2016 08:55:04 pm
Please add my name
Malcolm Evison
18/3/2016 08:55:09 pm
I first joined the Labour Party in 1960 and, intermittently renewed mebership as I moved to different parts of the country, and have served on GMC in two different constituencies, and did much canvassing and door knocking for the party in my younger (and healthier) days.
James Myers
18/3/2016 08:55:39 pm
Please add my name as signature
Mark Bradshaw
18/3/2016 08:55:58 pm
Weston-super-Mare CLP
Jennifer Green
18/3/2016 08:57:52 pm
Please add my name. I am a member of the Labour party and I'm routing for Jeremy Corbyn to remain as party leader.
John Ingamells
18/3/2016 09:00:52 pm
Stop this incessant divisive and mischievous conspiring and start putting the same amount of effort and commitment into opposing this vindictive and ideological Tory government. You have been at it from the day the new leadership took its position after massive support, at the behest at your mentors Blair and Mandelson. We do not want a lighter shade of Tory in the form of Blairism we want real Labour socialist opposition to this government. Do your job along with your fellow conspirators. You know your actions are worse than anything any Corbyn supporters have done. We and importantly, the people of this country need organised opposition to this extreme Tory ideology Tony Blair and his policies and record had already become a liability not an asset. Get behind the party and leadership.
Patricia Allen
18/3/2016 09:08:08 pm
The Tories are fighting among themselves, and instead of taking this opportunity to flatten them , you are backstabbing your elected leader! Get real or get out . Add my name please
Rose Seabury
18/3/2016 09:10:54 pm
Please add my name (Labour Party Member)
Carole McCulloch
18/3/2016 09:11:15 pm
Please put my name on the list
Stephen Barksby
18/3/2016 09:11:42 pm
PLeas add my name as a signature to this letter,Thanks
Sharon Hingley
18/3/2016 09:14:16 pm
Please add my name - Member
Christine Cullen
18/3/2016 09:15:42 pm
LP member
Susan Gould
18/3/2016 09:17:44 pm
When are you going to come to terms with the fact that Labour lost the last election because they were no different than the Tories. If you can't get to grips then cross the floor to join the side you should be on.
Simon Tucker
18/3/2016 09:25:59 pm
Please add my name. These Blairites just don't get it: Labour has moved significantly into a new political paradigm, quietly reflecting the concerns and needs of ordinary people and acting on them, instead of the Blairite / Tory mantra of lots of rhetoric along the same lines but doing nothing in reality except making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
robert fillies
18/3/2016 09:38:52 pm
Add my name please, i may not agree with Mr Corbyn on some things, however i do agree with much that he says. I thought his official response to the budget was excellent, and delivered with passion. He did win the leadership election convincingly and although i did not select him as my first choice, i accept the majority decision that was made and we must support him.
Labour Councillor Glyn Jenkins
18/3/2016 09:40:38 pm
A huge majority of Labour Party members voted Jeremy Corbyn leader of the party and thousands joined because they saw for the first time in a long time, a leader who was real Labour, and that they liked. I all of the party get solidly behind its current leader we will win the next election because by the time this Tory government has damaged the lives of ordinary people even more over the next four years in the way it has so far those ordinary folk will be ready for the radically refreshing change that Jeremy Corbyn can and will bring.
Eileen
18/3/2016 09:42:21 pm
Thanks all - Everyone above this comment has hopefully been added to the letter above-many thanks for your support and I know at least WE all wish Jeremy Corbyn success,
Diane Grant
18/3/2016 09:47:06 pm
I want a Labour Party where principles are not forgotten in a self-serving rush to be elected
Branch Secretary Ian Thomas
18/3/2016 09:47:20 pm
We the members who elected our Leader with an overwhelming mandate are sick to death of the machinations of you and your cronies. You are acting undemocratically, destroying the Labour Party and insulting the membership. The time has come (indeed, it came a long time ago) to shut up - or shove off!
Penny Tunbridge
18/3/2016 09:51:21 pm
Labour Party member, Maldon CLP.
Christine Bergin
18/3/2016 09:51:26 pm
Add my name please.
John Challen
18/3/2016 09:53:15 pm
Colchester CLP member, and GMB member.
Beverley Coxhead
18/3/2016 09:57:59 pm
Please add my name to the open letter
Jo Hand
18/3/2016 10:08:29 pm
Add my name please
Fauziah Petra Court
18/3/2016 10:10:05 pm
Mr Umunna, as a Labour MP you are a disgrace, wind your neck in and work for the people,or join the tories as I'm sure the would have you...........not!
Fauziah Petra Court
18/3/2016 10:20:22 pm
Oops Please add my name too x
Emily Morton
18/3/2016 10:16:32 pm
I would like my name added. I am a Labour and Co Operative member. I have always voted and supported Labour, except twice: once I refused to vote (2002), the other I voted Green Party (2015) Both times i l didn't trust the party. Finally, we have a party I trust. I feel safe with not just with my life and our economy. Labour does as we know, have the best record with the economy. Borrowing the least amount of debt, but paying back the more also. Now we have a leader with true British values: Community, Support, Morals, Integrity, Honesty, Trustworthy, Compassion, Empathy, Faith, Strength, Hope, Inspiration and enterprising society.
Pam Thompson
18/3/2016 10:16:33 pm
I joined the Labour Party because of Jeremy Corbyn
Nadia Ermilova
18/3/2016 10:18:20 pm
Include my name as well. I am a member too (Streatham).
Vicky Ryder
18/3/2016 10:20:57 pm
Umunna etc all should be disciplined. They are so arrogant. Please add my name.
Jim McAdams
18/3/2016 10:26:20 pm
Please add my name to the list. The Tory Wall is crumbling as I write and yet this man still attacks his ownleader. He should be expelled from the Party for bringing it in to disrepute.His politics are not ours and he is a "Fifth Columnist" for the Tories.
Samantha Iles
18/3/2016 10:35:00 pm
Please add my name.
Daina Gregory
18/3/2016 10:35:18 pm
Please add my name to the list - support the Leader of the Labour Party - Jeremy Corbyn - in order to defeat the Tories
Colin Nicholson
18/3/2016 10:36:08 pm
LP member please add me
Jill Narin
18/3/2016 10:40:48 pm
Jill Narin Plymouth Moor View CLP.
Stephen Myatt
18/3/2016 10:42:07 pm
Please add my name - Labour Party member.
Oonagh Amb
18/3/2016 10:42:13 pm
Catherine Willmore
18/3/2016 10:44:09 pm
Chuka, if this is true, it's with sadness I have to agree. We need your socialist values back in the Labour Party.
Carolyne Darmanin
18/3/2016 10:44:44 pm
Stop being a traitor to the leader
simone longley
18/3/2016 10:54:36 pm
Jeremy is the people's choice. That is what a government should be. Voted in by the people and for the people.
Kay Ecclestone
18/3/2016 10:54:40 pm
I joined Labour because of JC never having been involved in politics before. We all want Labour to win in 2020; please stop reducing the chances of this happening by your behaviour.
Phillip O'Brien
18/3/2016 10:55:42 pm
Paul James
18/3/2016 11:01:31 pm
Add me too, please!
Geraldine Fitzgerald
18/3/2016 11:04:11 pm
Please add my name to this letter.
Amanda Barr
18/3/2016 11:04:45 pm
Please add my name to this.. With this message .. I will never vote labour again if you tear down this party from within. What utter fools you must be to not realise you are committing political suicide. It's not your opposing views that are the problem .. they can be debated and a compromise found, but it is your backstabbing , personal attacks and vicious undermining of leftist values without a shrewd of decent policy being offered in its place. It insults not just Jeremy Corbyn and allies but the thousands of labour members who voted for him. Please rethink your very poor attitude and rejoin the fold to push forward a better politics.
Colin Wilkes
18/3/2016 11:04:57 pm
These people are acting as individuals who think they have all the answers.
Christopher Gregg
18/3/2016 11:09:30 pm
Count me in please.
David Merry
18/3/2016 11:11:19 pm
Rod Sunley
18/3/2016 11:13:13 pm
Kim Skerten
18/3/2016 11:16:58 pm
Please add my name to the list
Ann Carton
18/3/2016 11:18:58 pm
Please add my name. I'm a LP member.
Linda Heap
18/3/2016 11:20:52 pm
Please add my name. This "wing" of the party will choke on its own sense of self-importance at some point. Sooner rather than later would be good
Lynne Hutchinson
18/3/2016 11:21:24 pm
Jeremy Corbyn was elected with a huge mandate. We, as a party, need to unite behind him. He s a decent man with good and honest intentions. I don't see how you can feel the need to discredit him!
Roy Smith
18/3/2016 11:35:09 pm
Please add my name to the letter. Ogmore labour
Alan Marshall
18/3/2016 11:37:38 pm
misguided politicking from New Labourites. If you gain control again you can kiss goodbye hundreds of thousands of supporters who signed on for Corbyn. New Labour has had its day step out of the way. Get your act together, be a real team.
Harvey Lloyd
18/3/2016 11:44:44 pm
sign my name i am a full paid up member 18/3/2016 11:52:16 pm
Please add my name to the list. I became a LP member because of Jeremy Corbyn and I really feel it's time for Labour MPs to stop undermining him from within. The polls show JC is steadily gaining the confidence of the public (their constituents) after winning a landslide amongst the members. Do they believe in democracy or not?
Ricardo Sajor
18/3/2016 11:53:50 pm
Please add my name as well
Andrew Beszant
18/3/2016 11:54:31 pm
Having just moved to Streatham and being a life long supporter of Labour who has recently rejoined the Lp because of JC I am disgusted by your undermining of his leadership
Josef Kane
19/3/2016 12:00:50 am
I'm disgusted by the actions of someone who did not have the courage to stand for election into the leadership post. You do not belong in the Labour party, you are there to just do harm, people like you are what made Labour unelectable.
Mike Veitch
19/3/2016 12:09:49 am
Please include my name on this list. I am a party member. 19/3/2016 12:34:48 am
Dear Chuka Umunna.
Margaret Parker
19/3/2016 12:47:24 am
LP member. Please add my name to this excellent letter.
raven byrne
19/3/2016 01:24:53 am
used to like you Chukka,now i really don't.Keep ruining your career with your spoilt brat rubbish
Jane Merlin
19/3/2016 01:28:26 am
Member of Labour Party, South East Cornwall. The PLP needs to get behind the leader the grass root members voted for and the socialist policies he is bringing Labour back to. Please use all that anger and energy in directing the fight against the Tory party, not fellow Labour members and MP's. Thank you.
John Wathen
19/3/2016 02:17:15 am
I am a member of Maldon CLP. I believe that Jeremy Corbyn is the members choice as Leader and the PLP should support him fully.
Sheena Farenden
19/3/2016 02:44:54 am
Please add my name. If they don't like the leader we voted for leave
denise trott
19/3/2016 03:09:18 am
Please add me .I fully support Jeremy Corbyn and am a full member of the labour party
Chris Dunsby
19/3/2016 04:36:19 am
Never been a labour supporter but then i started to get an interest in politics in the Blair years. At least let labour be somewhat left. It's what the party was formed for in the first place after all, not to be right-wing lite.
Steve Bagnall
19/3/2016 05:58:50 am
I have faith in Corbyn, he stands for True Labour values NOT Blue Labour values. I joined the Party again, recently because of the continued stances taken by the party.
Linda Middleditch
19/3/2016 06:31:52 am
Please add my name. I am disgusted by those in the party who simply don't get it
Anna Golamy
19/3/2016 07:31:55 am
Please add me. We have a real chance of taking down the tories if the whole of the plp started working together, and the kids within it grow up.
June Tobin
19/3/2016 08:32:08 am
I am a life long labour member. I voted for Jeremy, he has my full support. Stop undermining him and get behind him. Us Ordinary people who you work for have given Jeremy a 100% mandate. Work with him and support him and us or leave the party that you are damaging with your actions. The last increase in members leading up to Septembers election of Jeremy was because of Jeremy and what he stands for. At last we have a leader that we can vote for, believe in and trust. Understand that or you and the likes of you within the party will cost us the next election!
Diana Radley
19/3/2016 08:43:44 am
I am a labour member and I voted for Jeremy, he has my full support. Stop undermining him, get behind him or **** off and join another party. What part of the huge democratic mandate that Jeremy has from ordinary members do you not understand?
Lyn Kendall
19/3/2016 08:47:30 am
Support your leader, or leave....easy as !!
Suzanne Rees
19/3/2016 08:48:26 am
Please add my name to this, I have joined as a full member because of JC, if he is ousted I will be leaving for sure, as will others in droves no doubt!
Julie Scarlett
19/3/2016 08:51:37 am
Please add my name. Stop feeding the biased media more ammunition. Stop being so self serving, you are a public servant. Labour party members and voters want a united party and you have a duty to deliver a united front even if you disagree behind closed doors.
Terry Mandrell
19/3/2016 08:55:28 am
Please add my name to the list above. I re-joined the LP after an absence of 20 + years because Jeremy seemed to offer a real alternative to the austerity policies of the Tories and the Blairites.
Lyn Boyd
19/3/2016 09:03:27 am
My grandmother, mother, aunts, sisters, cousins and myself have all been members of the Labour Party. My great uncles supported Ellen Wilkison MP during the Jarrow Hunger march. I have been for many years and also do not recall Jeremy Corbyn attacking the policies of Mr Blair when Blair was in power. He did cast his vote against his policies but I never heard anything derisory about the then Prime Minister coming from Jeremy Corbyn. The attacks on Jeremy have been brutal and it's about time that some MPs within the party get the message that Jeremy Corbyn is what the members of the party want as leader. It would appear that the purpose of these constant attacks is to undermine the Labour Party in opposition and to divert attention away from the swift distribution of wealth by this Tory Government to the rich at the expense of the poor. Please kindly add my name to the letter to Ummuna
Patricia Currie
19/3/2016 09:08:10 am
Proud member of the Labour Party.. So proud of out leader JC and his ally JMc..onwards and upwards with you guys at the helm.
Tracey Roderick
19/3/2016 09:10:51 am
Please add me. And to all those labour MPs that are backstabbing JC you are helping the Tories stay in power, get behind the elected leader and get elected.
Christine Davies
19/3/2016 09:13:46 am
Get behind our leader or get out if the party. We don't want your brand of politics,anymore...two failures is enough.
Phil Lee
19/3/2016 09:34:37 am
Get behind the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED leader or resign your seat. Widdling and stamping in it just because the right wing takeover of the Labour party ultimately failed is unbecoming, and only goes to show exactly what level of respect you have for democracy - which people may remember if and when you finally manage to find a position in a party more suited to your beliefs, and which requires you to stand for any kind of election to office.
Sarah Hatch and Daniel Edwards
19/3/2016 09:41:46 am
We would both like our name added to this list please.
Darren Wilson
19/3/2016 09:48:03 am
Please add my name "Darren Wilson CLP member"
Damien Willey
19/3/2016 10:03:45 am
Kindly add my name please, I just joined the Labour Party yesterday and its because of Corbyn I have joined a political party for the first time in my life. I shan't remain a member if the petulant Blairite remnant get their way and thats a promise!
Lindsey Todd
19/3/2016 10:03:56 am
Fully paid up member of Labour Party. Agree totally with this. If you don't Chua and cohorts maybe it's time you joined your like minded friends on the other benches. Get behind our leader and support him, not with a knife in your hand but with your heart and soul as we try to oust the vermin that are the Conservatives. Who day by day try to crush our country under their Elitist feet.
Kirsty McNaught
19/3/2016 10:08:44 am
Labour Member, Blackpool South.
anne jarvis
19/3/2016 10:27:23 am
Please add my name. I am a full member (returned when Corbyn was elected) I want a Labour Party with labour values NOT pink Tory values.
Chris Curran
19/3/2016 10:49:15 am
Please add my name. I am a member. I believe support of the leadership is extremely important in getting back into power.
Katrina Stelzner
19/3/2016 11:13:25 am
Please add my name to this letter. I am a Labour Party member.
Tim Knight
19/3/2016 11:19:52 am
Morley and Outwood CLP 19/3/2016 11:30:55 am
As a full member of the Labour party,I fully support this letter.
Darren Blackman
19/3/2016 11:35:57 am
Did I not add my surname, not sure if I didn't please re-add my name. Same quote, Tories in red ties, watered down Tories.
Jody Salisbury
19/3/2016 11:48:32 am
Excellent letter, please add my name. They say happiness is the best revenge. Well, success is the best revenge here. The success of Corbyn's government.
Jane Lennie
19/3/2016 11:52:19 am
The high profile these backbenchers have should be used to support the Labour Party, not rip it apart. The Tories success depends on 'divide and rule', don't make their job easier.
Carly Wray
19/3/2016 11:59:27 am
Please add me to the list (I'm a Labour party member)
Jean Huntley
19/3/2016 12:09:15 pm
Please add my name. I am now proud to call myself a Labour Party member after having left under Tony Blair.
peter green
19/3/2016 12:38:50 pm
I am a member of the Labour Party (rejoined to support Jeremy Corbyn's leadership bid) Please add my name to the list. Very disappointed that many labour MP'S are still hell bent on wrecking Jeremy Corbyn's chances of success as labour leader. He was elected by a massive mandate to lead and has even more support now from the members. 19/3/2016 12:49:25 pm
I cannot believe in the politics of any man who did not vote against the welfare.
John B Willliams
19/3/2016 12:53:56 pm
It appears that the ones not supporting the Labour Leader are tory stooges.. Leave now and allow the Labour party to be what it should be and not a vehicle for career politicians.
Karen Heaton
19/3/2016 01:26:51 pm
Adding my name as a person who rejoined the Labour Party when Jeremy Corbyn won the party leadership. I voted for him and believe in him. It's about time that the 'Blue Labour' lot made their exit - Chuka & Co. are not wanted, or needed, in the Labour Party.
June Knight
19/3/2016 01:51:32 pm
Please add my name. Jeremy Corbyn is doing terrifically against all adversity. He has been trying to bring morality, decency, proper intelligence and integrity back into British politics, government and his own party. Yet he gets opposition from both from the Conservative Benches mocking and refusing him to speak for more than a few seconds, and his own party who are not interested in anything except their own careers, opportunity and power nest at the cost of the British People and Country. This country is being sold for a song and all its carefully constructed internal structure disintegrated. This structure to provide stability, fairness and justice was not just here since Labour came in after the war, but right the way back to Magna Carter and King Alfred Common Law and system of hundreds and tithes, to protect the country, administer justice and help bring in revenue for the crown and raise an army if the country was under threat from opposition within or without. It is downright treason and young bucks selling off the house, home and everyone within.
Rik Stack
19/3/2016 02:35:41 pm
Labour member Wakefield CLP.
Mandy Buchanan
19/3/2016 02:39:30 pm
Chuka umunna had to withdraw from the leadership contest because he had not been entirely straightforward in his behaviour. How he and the others believe that they can influence those of us who want decent politics is beyond my comprehension
Michael Polling
19/3/2016 03:12:11 pm
Please add my name. Like thousands of others, I voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader, and I'm disgusted with the anti-democratic behaviour of those within the party who oppose him. If you don't like the way we vote, leave!
Julie Dean
19/3/2016 03:47:33 pm
I trust Jeremy Corbyn and wish him to have the full support of the labour party. I am a paid up member, I voted for him.
Sharon Walsh
19/3/2016 03:49:58 pm
I am a socialist and was a member of the Labour Party until Clause 4 was removed when I resigned my membership. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonell and the MPs who unite behind them are the best thing that has happened to the Labour Party for the last forty years. The clue here is in the title, the "Labour" Party. Here to protect and promote the interests of the ordinary people, representing those who are suffering as a result of 37 years of constant government on behalf of the privileged. The Labour Party came into its own after a catastrophic split in the Liberal Party in the early 1920s. Don't let the Labour Party cease to exist because of a catastrophic split of its own almost a hundred years later. Get behind the party leadership, work to serve your constituents and pull together to start the thankless task of trying to undo all the damage that has been done in the last 40 years. Or go your own way, but not as members of the Labour Party.
Jan & Chris Mears
19/3/2016 03:50:16 pm
It is about time all M.P's realised that we the electorate are 100% behind Jeremy Corbyn.
paul mccue
19/3/2016 04:06:14 pm
please add my name - Labour member and otherwise fan of Mr Umunna (so do the right think Chucka)
Maggie Kelly
19/3/2016 04:07:49 pm
Criticism is healthy and democratic ... Constant bleating and bitching to the media is sabotage and has no place in the Labour Party
Lou Hart
19/3/2016 04:32:39 pm
I can only think this G10 arrogant 11 are set on maintaining power fro the Tories. Please add my name
Greg Higman
19/3/2016 04:52:19 pm
The Bairites in Labour need to get over the fact their three candidates didn't get voted in to the leadership. If they don't like who the party membership democratically chose they can surely find the door, or do they need some help?
Sheila Sheppard
19/3/2016 05:10:45 pm
Labour Party member, Milton Keynes North.
les lazell
19/3/2016 05:25:05 pm
The failure to win 2 winnable elections is ye fault of the Blairites. The attitude of ye general public is the legacy of the blair years and the failure to be anything other than a slightly pinker version of the tories. Remember thatchers words "my finest achievement is Tony Blair and new labour). Not only the party but also large parts of the population are far more left wing than the plp. The tories only managed 24% of the vote. Why are you destroying the labour party for a sniff of this minority.
Tim Needham
19/3/2016 07:25:12 pm
If the right are serious about winning in 2020 they should listen to what the public and what labour party members want. Dignity in politics is not achieved through personal narcissism and pursuing a vain self important agenda. MPs are elected to represent their constituencies and we expect open debate and discussion over political issues not personally motivated bullying and manipulation to achieve a minority self centred objective. If you have something to say, say it upfront in an open room , have that debate and move on.
Kath Barber
19/3/2016 07:53:35 pm
Please either refrain immediately and Co operate with the direction determined by the party, the members. Or please leave. You are damaging the Labour Party.
Steve Peck
19/3/2016 07:57:50 pm
Please add me.
Donald Ross Johnson
19/3/2016 07:59:25 pm
I am only a Labour Party member old enough to be Umuna's dad, so of course I don't count at all. But if he was intelligent enough to understand I would have to tell him that parties which fail to follow their properly elected leader inevitably - and rightly - end up in the gutter. Which is where he belongs.
Paul Roberts
19/3/2016 08:28:02 pm
This spoilt lot need to remember that the Party is member run, democratic and inclusive...it is not run by a few self-appointed grandees and holders of the higher moral ground(as they see themselves).
Denise Ireland
19/3/2016 09:38:24 pm
I agree
Angela Trafford
30/6/2017 10:13:35 am
L P member please add my name.
Linda Ann Stoker
19/3/2016 10:06:28 pm
Labour Party member South Norfolk
Angela McEvoy
20/3/2016 12:07:14 am
Voted Labour 40 years joined Party May 2015 after GE Defeat. Sefton CLP.
Madeleine Brierley
20/3/2016 12:23:05 am
Please add my name. I think Chuka is barking up the wrong tree. Jeremy's response to the budget was superb and recognised as such by us all and media.
Paul Cronk
20/3/2016 12:32:39 am
Jeremy Corbyn was Elected as Labour Leader by a Landslide Vote. If you do not like it, it is not Jeremy who should go, it is you!!
jo dereza
20/3/2016 01:37:04 am
Disgusted by the craven undermining of the parties elected leader. These people need to get behind Corbyn, support him and the real opposition that Labour is providing for the first time since I've been able to vote.
Peter Brierley
20/3/2016 09:16:02 am
Remember that you lost two general elections. The only way to win is to work as a united party. Get behind Jeremy Corbin and you've a chance. Carry on as you are and you'll be in the political wilderness forever.
Stuart Dillon
20/3/2016 10:15:07 am
After years of apathy with politics, I came in because of Corbyn. He won by popular vote and these actions undermine the party. We should be capitalising on the dissent in the Tories, it's what got Labour in last time. Instead, this?
Lynn Dye
20/3/2016 02:12:28 pm
Please add my name. I am a Labour member who joined to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. These MP's who do not support their leader and scheme behind his back undermine the party and betray their members who want the Conservatives out. Remember who the true enemy is, or get out and join them!
Eileen
20/3/2016 02:34:21 pm
OK GUYS*************************This is the new mark - all earlier names should have been added and some comments deleted to thin down this lovely long thread :)
steven wilkinson, Cornwall CLP
20/3/2016 03:36:21 pm
Chucca, time to stop doing the Tories dirty work for free and get behind your leader in the name of party unity. A time will come to elect a new leader, but that time is not now.
Elinor Scott
20/3/2016 06:26:24 pm
Joined the labour party when Jeremy Corbyn was elected.
Jann Oliver
20/3/2016 07:51:17 pm
Please add my name to the list and my son, Sam McKeown. Both members of the Bromley and Chiselhurst CLP.
ian davies
20/3/2016 09:56:50 pm
HelenHamilton
22/3/2016 01:57:03 am
As a labour party member I find your behavior reprehensible. You lacked the courage to stand as the leader of the party and now bully from the back benches. It is the collective actions of you and your colleagues that allows the media question Labours ability to govern the country not the current Leaders ability or integrity.
GEORGE LAMB
22/3/2016 02:00:51 pm
Back him or leave..
Manda Scott
22/3/2016 02:16:50 pm
Please add my name. It's time these idiots got with the program or got out. We have a leader. Support him.
Lisa Rossetti
23/3/2016 09:33:31 am
Please add my name to this letter.
Dave Bolton
23/3/2016 05:12:34 pm
Well done with letter, expressed my sentiments to the letter. I have been a member since 1984, a Councillor in both Town & Unitary for 20 years. I am totally committed to the Labour Party. Under Blair after 18 years, we won 3 Elections. He was a man of the time. I cried with joy when he won in 97' I believed he would change Britain forever with his massive majorities, I believed he would destroy the Tories and change the Establishment forever. What did he do he carried on with watered down Tory policies. Yes we have the Minimum Wage which is now the normal wage for millions. Yes we have the Academies which is by the end of this parliament, will mean the Privatisation of Education. Yes we have the University places for all, with the debt of £50,000 for all who go. This is the legacy of Blair, not one ounce of Socialism in his genes. nor in those backstabbing our Leader. We have our Party back, after May fight them and go for the Cull.
Margaret Knell
25/3/2016 08:46:16 pm
Add me please. I joined after the General Election defeat in exasperation at the inept campaign devised for Ed Miliband. He was so badly advised by his team. When Jeremy Corbyn stepped forward I was delighted - a credible, inspiring Labour leader. My local party has quadrupled its membership, and is active in a strong Tory area. We don't deserve to be undermined by disaffected right-wingers.
Angela McEvoy
12/7/2016 03:57:37 pm
You and second X 11 sabotaged Corbyn's Leadership from Day 1. You took away your experience and the support a new leader would expect from shadow cabinet. Then complained about chaos in main stream media undermining Corbyn at every stage. Dan Jarvis talked about a coup after EU referendum last March. It was common knowledge in the Westminster bubble. You and your 10 mates have enormously damaged the Labour Party. Childish Petulance has no place in British Politics. The electorate voted you to oppose Tories not your own leader. Your stage managed coup has delighted right wing media and in a time of crisis in the country, rather than opposing Tories you have demeaned your DEMOCRATICALLY elected leader, The Labour Party and most of all yourself as a trusted member of parliament. If Corbyn is not on ballot, do you really think a new leader would be regarded as legitimate!
june hawker
27/7/2016 11:39:48 pm
I really thought I would never get to the bottom of the page
Glynis Knight
29/6/2017 09:43:35 pm
Labour Party member L.B Brent..
nick
29/6/2017 09:46:17 pm
Add my name.
Les Chalk
30/6/2017 10:41:50 am
We now have approximately 1 million members most who have joined to back Jeremy, You Bliarites either get behind Corbyn, or defect to your true Party, The Conservatives and then try to get re elected under the Tory colours you treasonous B********s
Lorna Park
30/6/2017 11:07:21 am
Hear hear. Please add my name. I am a labour party member.
Jason Parry
30/6/2017 11:23:21 am
I Jason Parry wholeheartedly add my name to this list. The Labour party has never been in better hands and im disgusted some within the party dont have the stones to get behind jeremy and stand for something more than their own bank accounts and city deals.
Dilys Hadley
30/6/2017 11:34:05 am
Please add my name to this letter. I was never more disgusted than yesterday. Umunna may as well have joined the Tories in laughing and cheering the pay cap on our public servants. THIS was the real callenge, and more energy supporting that would have been appreciated. Umunna and his friends have NO credibility, are NOT cool, and are working to bring down our party, while its membership has worked under Corbyn to do the opposite - and worked incredibly hard! If it were not for Jeremy's insistence that we keep giving people another chance and work for unity, the majority of the membership would have seen this band of nasty, Torylite plotters out of a job some time ago! Many of their constituents would gladly see the back of them too - they were rescued this time by the snap nature of May's election. There are masses of talented and able people who would step in and support the Party with energy and loyalty, and are waiting for the chance to do just that. These plotters need to get their noses down and do some REAL work on behalf of their Party and the electorate which needs the valuable work of our strong opposition waiting in the wings for government, not daft demonstrations of divisive petulence, or they need not be surprised to find their days are numbered.
Lesley Marshall
30/6/2017 11:34:35 am
please add my name. Ceredigion LP
Mark Feathers
30/6/2017 11:35:46 am
Please add my name to the list. I'm a Labour party member.
Terry McInnes
30/6/2017 12:12:32 pm
Can you add my name please.
Michelle Griffiths
30/6/2017 12:18:36 pm
Time to move on now Mr Blair has gone and the Labour party is once again a left wing party. I'd like to say it was a pleasure but it wasn't, more embarrassing really!! I've heard the Tories are going to be looking for more MP's maybe apply there it seems to be more suited to someone as unloyal as you!
Annie Weatherly-Barton
30/6/2017 01:04:59 pm
Well done all concerned. So sick of all this stuff. I reminded Mr Umunna yesterday that he is now saying something completely different from what he said last year as reported in The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/chuka-umunna-single-market-free-movement-brexit_uk_57e3e201e4b0db20a6e8b057 'Chuka Umunna: We Should Be Prepared To Sacrifice Single Market Membership To Axe Freedom Of Movement."
Annie Weatherly-Barton
30/6/2017 01:06:30 pm
Oh and please add my name to list. Community Supporter & Children's Spirituality Practitioner.
Iris Chrettle
30/6/2017 01:37:10 pm
Labour Party member for 70years I am now 89 Corbyn the best since ClemAtlee
Dave thawley
30/6/2017 01:54:35 pm
please add my name. we need members of the labour party who support the party not try and destroy it. 30/6/2017 03:32:42 pm
I totally agree with the signed letter, it is about time the party united behind Jeremy Corby and work as a team to get the Tories out. Please feel free to add my name. Labour member and staunch supporter of JC.
Connie Aldaya
30/6/2017 05:06:57 pm
I am in my eighties and always voted Labour, but, only joined the Party 2years ago because we have a Leader who really cares for everyone. I fully back Jeremy and John and trust them to do their best for the Country and its people. I am furious that the right in the Party are still determined to get Jeremy and John out and know that there are plans afoot to thwart any changes they want to make to be more inclusive of the membership as at the moment a few Non Jeremy supporters are making major decisions and do not want things to change. So I believe the right are planning to make sure they stay in control at the Party Conference in September, so be prepared and make sure they do not get their way
Marc Beswick
30/6/2017 05:14:50 pm
Please add my name to the list
Jan Hughes
30/6/2017 06:25:11 pm
Please add my name, I joined when JC became leader,and what a leader he is. 30/6/2017 07:22:16 pm
I am a Labour Party member from Cynon Valley Constituency. Please add my name.
Mary Baker
30/6/2017 08:00:14 pm
Please add my name I am so angry with this petulant group. They are trying to betray us and take away our hope
Krystina Stephenson
30/6/2017 08:30:52 pm
Please add my name. This petulently childish group has had its say and had it's day. Enough is enough.
Rob Jones
1/7/2017 01:36:58 am
Add My Name to the list.
Susan Turner
1/7/2017 07:41:18 am
Are you living in a bubble and unaware that the huge surge in popularity of the Labour Party is due to Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership of the oarty? The only reason I (and thousands of other people) have joined the Labour Party is because of him. If your antics to try to force him from office succeed, I will leave and, I suspect, so will thousands of other people. Stop being so arrogant, be loyal to and support your elected leader. None of us support you but we do him!
Julio morales
1/7/2017 10:44:33 am
I became a labour supporter because J.Corbyn was for the workers and the most poor in this society. Its time for those that are againts the present leader start supporting him and the labours programme. The alternative is for them to resigned and go for election as indepedant and the labour party to put forward a candidate that support this new labour party.
Saviour Busuttil
2/7/2017 12:45:16 pm
Add my name please, I would like to add that if you Chuka and rest of the backstabbers are not happy with the leader and the way the Labour party is moving I would suggest you step down from your seats and allow a TRUE labour to take over, we need MP's that are 100% behind our leader and not backstabbers.
Darren Rees
3/7/2017 06:43:43 pm
All the back stabbing and sneaking around in the shadows will not change a thing. JC is the leader of the Labour party,understand it and follow him or.... go join the Tories!. You are heading that direction with the plans you and your co-conspirators ate concocting.
Gavin Stuart Williams
31/1/2018 03:08:12 pm
Please add my name
Janis Garbutt
1/2/2018 12:27:44 am
Please add my name.my first vote was Wilson and I have never left Labour.This bullying is absolutely disgusting and I can only conclude the PLP involved would rather see a Tory government stay in power.They are disrespecting the wider membership and democracy.If they can't spend their time fighting the Tories they should stand aside.
Ann Bishop
6/5/2018 05:11:00 pm
There us one thing for sure Labour is at risk from traitors like this abominable Tory supporter within it Do you not realise that the membership is where it is now BECAUSE of JC NOT because of Blairites like you !! You should be sacked not just for this but looking back on your career you should have been removed a long time ago . JC is putting the fear of God in to those who own all the wealth in this country because he is clean and is there for the ordinary people who want him on their side
Jill Phillips
6/5/2018 11:05:46 pm
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