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Open letter to Chuka Umunna and his team

18/3/2016

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PictureImage 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.

The MPs – including several who have ministerial experience, or have held senior shadow cabinet portfolios – made a series of interventions in the House of Commons, and toured the television studios after Osborne delivered his eighth budget, to put across their own version of Labour’s response.

Chuka Umunna, who briefly joined last year’s leadership race himself before pulling out and Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellor are part of a group working separately from the shadow cabinet, to beef up Labour’s economic credibility.
 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”.

However, the grouping of economic specialists thinks of itself as Labour’s “first 11”. Fellow Labour MPs have dubbed it the “G10” – a grouping that grew out of those who refused to serve in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet – and is said to meet regularly, before the weekly gathering of the parliamentary Labour party.

Other Labour MPs appear to be sceptical about the group, painting them as an exclusive “cool gang” that believe themselves the rightful rulers of the Labour party. One MP said the effort was hopeless and the former shadow cabinet ministers should realise they are making matters worse by setting themselves up to look like Blairite plotters.

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:

Abigail Dombey
Akhtar Khan
Al Ogden-Steele
Alan Ingram
Alan Knibbs
Alan Mackinnell LP member West Derby !!
Alan Marshall
Alan Taylor LP member Plymouth
Alan Ward
Alex Bollard
Alex Harrison to that
Alex Rattenbury
Alison Bowden
Alison Clarke
Alison Errington
Alison Goodchap
Alison Jacobson, Labour Party Member
alison lush - 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.
Alison Royles
allan bishop
Allan Pearson
Allan Robinson
Alun Bartlett
Alun Hope
Alwyn Davies
Amanda Barr
amanda garber
Andrea Watts
Andrew Barnes
Andrew Dickie
Andrew Duncan
Andrew McKay
Andrew Wright Full Party member
Andy Coombes Stroud CLP
Andy Fraser
Andy Jackson
Andy King
Andy Smith Currently not joining the Labour Party as a protest to my MP Peter Kyle's voting record. I will not be living in this constituency in 2020.
Andy Thomas, London SW9
Andy Waddell-Tillbrook
Angela Fisher
Angela Freeman
Angela McEvoy Voted Labour 40 years joined Party May 2015 after GE Defeat. Sefton CLP.
Angeline Hargreaves
Angie Hammons
Angie Stack
Anita Kanani
Ann Carton
Ann Lindsay
Ann Mcmullan
Ann Winter
Anna Christopher
Anna Colgan
Anna Golamy
Anna Harwich
Anna Miller
Anne Eales
Anne Elizabeth Amison
Anne Fallon
Anne Gomez
Anne Hollingshead
anne jarvis  I am a full member (returned when Corbyn was elected) I want a Labour Party with labour values NOT pink Tory values.
Anne Kippins
Anne Lovelock
Anne Taylor
Anne Ward
Anne Ward
Annette Taberner
Annie Higgs
Anth Hindmarch
Anthony Naulty Stockport CLP member
Antoinette Sym
Antony Bryant
Antony Sharp
Anya Darr full Member East Devon CLP
Arthur Kaletzky Please add me, Cambridge CLP
Arvind Jadwa - Chuka, I was a big fan of yours until you betrayed JC.
Barbara Brown
Barbara Hastings
Barbara Hughes
Barbara Kell I'm a full party member please add me and thank you for doing this.
Barry Clark
Barry Sherwin LP
Becky Chamberlain
Becky Emery
Bee Mundy-Castle
Ben Myers
Bernadette Stokoe Member, Arundel & South Downs CLP
bertha Mundy-Castle
Beverley Bryan
Beverley Coxhead
Beverley Rawsthorn
Bill Sharp
Bill Sharp, Labour Member (longtime) Vale of Clwyd
Billie Reynolds Reading West CLP
Bob Archer
Bob Russell
Bob Wiggin
Branch Secretary Ian Thomas
Brenda Brownbill Dean
brian gillies
Brian Williams
Bridgid Herridge
Bruce Gomersall
Callum Hay
Carly
Carmen Malaree - I am a member of the Labour Party. I have been for many years and I 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 attack 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. Please kindly add my name to the letter to Umunna
Carol Chapman
Carol Edwards
Carol Rowley
Carole Cilia
Caroline Tipler-Add my name please Eileen, and many thanks and gratitude for your dedication to the cause.
Carolyne Darmanin
Carter Danny
Caterina Lai
Cath Peach
Catherine Hutchinson
Catherine Plummer
Catherine Willmore
Charles Abrahams
Charles Regan
Cheryl Raynor
Chris Armand
Chris Bingham
Chris Curran  I am a member. I believe support of the leadership is extremely important in getting back into power.
Chris Dunsby
Chris HANLEY
Chris Mckenzie
Chris Price
Chris Spence
Chris Spink
Chris Walsh
Chris Westwood
Chris York NW Cambs CLP & Unite member
Chrissie Harman
Christian Baker
Christina McCabe
Christine Bergin
Christine Davies
Christine Link
Christine Mooney
Christine Peppitt
Christine Stringer
christine watson
Christopher Bainbridge
christopher emmins
Christopher Gray
Ciara Heymann
Cindy Callaghan
Claire Anderson
Claire Bingham
Clarissa Minns
Claudia Hector
Claudine Cole
Claudine Williams
Cliff Whitefoot
Clive Osborne
Cllr Ryland Doyle, Lllansamlet Ward, Swansea City Council.
Colin Blundell  South Holland CLP
Colin Frawley
Colin Nicholson
Colin Wilkes
coral Jones
Councillor Waida Forman
Councillor Waida Forman.
Craig Colwill
Cynthia Smith
Daina Gregory
Damien Willey
Dan Evans
Dan Evo
Daniel John Roberts Labour Party member
Daniel Miles
Danielle Hetherington-Parker
Darrell Pointing
Darren
Darren Blackman
Darren Wilson
Darryl W Collins Labour Councillor.
Dave Dash - 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.
Dave Godley
Dave Procter
Daveena Daley
David Belfield LP member Staffordshire Moorlands.
David Brede
David Gamble.
David Merry
David Mills Member Braintree and Witham CLP
David Moran
David Rickhuss
David Roberts
David Robinson
David Robinson Party member from Suffolk
David Seagrave
David Taylor
David White
Dawn Sutton
Dawn Sutton (Waveney)
dean loftus
Deb Grinstead
Debbie Manley
Deborah Smith
Ded Walker I am a labour member too,
Dee Peter Wooden
deirdre baker
Deloris Walsh
Denise Ireland Member CLP Stretford and Urmston
denise trott
Derek O Hara
derek white
deval
Di Coffey founder of Momentum Falmouth
Diana Radley
diane cooper
Diane Grant
Dianne Maynard
Dilys Hadley
Donald Ross Johnson
DOROTHY Badrick - 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.
Dr Charles Smith (County Councillor) Labour member for 40+ years
Dugald Ferguson
Duke Dexter
Eddie Walton
Edward Lamb
edward plumridge
Eileen Whitehorn
Elaine Tiffin
Elaine Wilkinson
Elisabeth Hunter
Eliza Harthope  Jo Sergeant (Bristol West CLP)
Elizabeth Christian
Elizabeth Kenward
Elizabeth Pettit
Elsa Champney - If Jeremy Corbynites is ousted from within, I will leave the Labour Party which I have supported all of my life. I am sure others will too.
Elspeth Parris Full Labour member, Brecon and Radnor constituency.
Emily Morton
emma bonnermorgan
Emma Lorraine Coulling
Ernestine Montgomerie
Evan Dovey
Fatima Zoya Madar
Fauziah Petra Court
Felicity Eunice Myfanwy Ferriter husband Michael also full LP member.
Felix Castrillon
Fiona Jones
Fiona Robb South London
Floyd Langridge
Fran Yeldham
Frances Lilley
Frances Patterson
Francesca Lambert
Francesca Lambert and me, I'm a Labour member
Frank Almiles Mole
Frank Torr
Freda Bunce
GAHowkins
Gamze Kocabali
Garry Cave
Garry Christian
Gary Martin Dobbs
Gary Rowlands
Gary Rowlands Me please labour party member.
Gaynor Forman
Geoff Spittles
Geoffrey Spittles
George Welsh
Georgie Harrison
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Geraldine Moore
Geraldine Rose
Gerry McGarvey
Gill Davies
Gill Day
Gill Eddy
Gill Kennard
Gill Knowles
Gillian Burnell
Gillian Connell
Gillian Kalter
Gillian Kathleen Kennard
Gillian Mansfield
Gillian Rowe
Gina Creighton
glenn evans (labour party member)
Glenn Martin
Glyn Williams
Glynn Smith - I suspect there are double agents in the mix.
Gordon Hunter
Graham Askew
Graham Billing
Graham Korn
Greg Higman
Gwen Kneale
Gwynne Reddick
Harriet Bradley
Harvey Lloyd
Hazel Winter
Heather Maryson
Helen Annand
Helen Basu Chaudhuri  I am an LP member.
Helen Cairney
Helen Gutteridge
Helen Owens 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
Helen Spedding-Lowe
Helen Tarratt
Helen Walter
Hereward Corbett
Hereward Corbett Secretary, West Cotswolds Branch Labour Party
Howard Pickup
Hugh Gilchrist
hugh wilde
Irene Martin Full member in Scotland
Isabel McNab
Isobel Waby
Jack Critchlow
Jacki Leighton
Jacky Clark
Jacqueline Teresa Cairns
Jacqueline Emslie
Jacqui Blackburn
Jake Binnington
James Clark Labour member, Sheffield Central
James Myers
James Spooner
Jan & Chris Mears
Jan Cole
Jane Clarke
Jane Cotton
Jane James
Jane Lawson (Greenwich CLP) You need to learn a number of things: Loyalty to a leader with a huge mandate. Your political position is to the right of Harold Macmillan, Ted Heath and even John Major great swathes of the electorate want a Labour Party somewhat to the left of them, not another version of the Tories.
Jane Lennie 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.
Jane Merlin
Jane Stoggles
Jane Tims
Jane Warren
Jane Warren - 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. Originally from Scotland please be aware that Jeremy Corbyn will be the best leader to persuade the Scots to go back to Labour. They want an alternative to the Tories.
Jane Winson
Janet Auvache
Janet Godfrey
Janet Marks
Janet McCulloch Labour Party member, Galloway
Janet Moss
Janice Finn Labour Party Member. Wythenshawe and Sale East CLP.
Janice wheeler
Jaqui Barnes-Monaghan
Jason Fawley
Jayne Linney
Jean Clarke
Jean Hamilton
JEAN HAMILTON  If they do this to a good and honest man if says more
Jean Huntley Please add my name. I am now proud to call myself a Labour Party member after having left under Tony Blair. Jeremy Corbin achieved a landslide victory against all the odds. Chuka, how can you be in the Labour Party with so little understanding of democracy?
Jean Jones
Jean Sudhurst Add me please an LP member
Jean Thirtle I'm a full member - add me please
Jean Thirtle Member North Norfolk CLP
Jeanette Buzza Busuttil
Jeanne Le Rendu
Jeff Bowler
Jeff Thomas
Jennifer Borel
Jennifer Green
Jennifer Thompson Houghton & Sunderland South CLP
Jenny Feneley
Jeremy Corbyn
Jerry Dominguez-Gomez - 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.
Jez Denton
Jill Jackson
Jill Lea
Jill Murphy
Jill Narin
Jill Narin Plymouth labour member who is also not impressed with Ben Bradshaw .. only labour MP in Devon
Jilly Teresa Chapman
Jim Butler-Daulby
Jim McAdams
Jo Colby
Jo Court
Jo Czernuszka
jo dereza
Jo Hand
Jo Marley
Jo Moreland Wood
jo Moreland wood
jo pratt
Jo Simone
Joan Pritchard-Jones
Joan Rudderham
Joanna Robertson
Joanna Rowland-Stuart
Joanna Rowland-Stuart Full Member, Brighton Kemptown CLP
Joanne Dobbs
Jody Salisbury
Joe Marley
Joe Phillips
john a thatcher  As a full member of the Labour party I fully support this letter.
John Abercrombie
John B Willliams
John Beeching
John Campbell
John Challen Colchester CLP member, and GMB member.
John coleman
John Gillespie - Socialist from birth 53 years ago; party member since September 2015. Get behind the democratically elected leader or get out of the party. Appalling acts of cruelty are being perpetrated by the Tories and you are allowing this to happen.
John Malone
John Murphy
John Nelson
john nelson
John Pearmain
John Ravenscroft
John Sweeney UCATT
John Taylor
John Thatcher
John Wathen
Josef Kane
Judith Klaus
Judith Longman
Julia Blalock
Julie Dean
Julie Koretz
Julie Scarlett
Julie Shackson
Julie smith
Julie Speed
Juliet Hagan
June Helm
June Knight
June Tobin
Justin Knight
Karen Armour
Karen Brett
John Hemp

Karen capovila Barrow CLP
Karen Dean
Karen Heaton
Karen Johnson
Karen Linley
Karyn Irwin
Kate Logan
kate thomson
Kath Barber
Kath Craigs Labour member in Normanton, Wakefield
Kathleen Crotty Manchester Central
Kathryn Gordon
Kathryn James
Kathy archbold - 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?
Katrina Stelzner
Katy Rosewell
Kay Ecclestone
Kay Lawrence
Kay Lawrence, Torfaen member
Keith Davies
Keith Jackson
keith jackson
Keith Jackson Full member too A196794
Keith Seddon
Ken Dunlop Labour Party member, Liverpool Walton CLP
Kenneth Jones - 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
Kevin Hewick
Kevin Hull
Kevin Morrison vice chair Poulton and district CLP
Kevin Piper Aylesbury CLP
Kim Skerten
Kirsty McNaught
Lance Jackson
Laura Clarke
lawry Roberts
Lee Berry
Lee R Nixon
Len Stevens
Leo Phillips
Leon Berger
Les Lazell
les lazell
Lesley Bury
Lesley Hollinshead Member of the Labour Party.Bolsover CLP
Leslie Anthony Stuart-Thompson
Leslie Bridges
Liam J Liburd Broomhill, Sheffield Central CLP
Linda Ann Stoker Labour Party member South Norfolk
Linda Ann Tinsley
Linda Barratt
Linda Bond
Linda Hansard
Linda Heap
Linda Lomax
Linda Middleditch
Linda Reynolds 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.
Lindsay Frank Probert Labour Party member USDAW union member
Lindsey Lacey
Lindsey lewis
Lindsey Todd
Liz Clover
Liz Kenward
Lorraine Murphy
Lorrayne Hill
Lou
Lucy Henery
Lucy McCormick
Lyn Boyd
Lyn Kendall
Lynda Haydney
Lynda James
Lynne Dye
Maggie Kelly Labour Party member .. York Central
Mags Kelly
Mags Phelan Stones
Malcolm Barnes and his son aged 15 Uther Naysmith both Labour Party members
Malcolm Evison - I first joined the Labour Party in 1960 and, intermittently renewed membership 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. I am currently a member of Harrogate & Knaresborough District Labour Party. It is wonderful to have such a principled, democratically elected, leader. as Jeremy Corbyn, and to have abandoned the neo-liberal policies of New Labour.
Mandy Buchanan I am a full member of Gateshead CLP
Marco Bossano
Marcus Pearse Yorks Labour supporter
Margaret Atherton
Margaret Holmes
Margaret Parker
Maria Carroll - 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.
Maria Cavaliere Labour Party Member, Luton
Maria Livings
Maria-Alexandra Koekenhoff
Marie Archer
Marie Archer I am a full member South Cambs.
Marisa John
Mark Bradshaw Weston-super-Mare CLP
Mark Dickson Add my name, I am a member
Mark Hicks
Mark Pickering
Mark Still
Mark Still Me please I am an LP member
Mark Trotman
Marla Stanley
marshall strong
martine butler
Martyn Hart
Mary Baker party member Preseli Pembrokeshire
Mary Denise Graham
Mary Sliwa
Mary wardle
Mary Wheeler
Maryanne Christie
Mat McCall, perspective local council candidate, Grange, Gloucester.
Matt Beavis I'm a Labour Party member in Nottingham
Matt Dixon
Matty Brown
Maureen Hancock
Maurice Craig
Mavis Clarke
Max Wootton
Mazdak Sorosh
Megan Bianca Ana McGrattan
Melanie Gibson
Melanie Hargreaves
Melanie Louise Pither
Michael
Michael Baines
Michael Bentley
Michael Birchmore
Michael Campbell
Michael Clarke
michael flanagan
michael paling
Michael Weipert - 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.
Michael Yore
Michele Angela Hughes
Michelle Conway
Mick Ekers
Mick Webster
Mike Bird
Mike Clark
mike fowler
Mike Fowler.
Mike Kennard (Chatham & Aylesford CLP treasurer)
Mike Kettlety SW Wilts CLP TU Liason Member
Mike Levers
Mike Magee Rodney Nicholls Bradford Easr CLP
Mike McGrath
MIKE RAZZELL
Mike Razzell
Mike Veitch
Mina Rodgers
Moira Caffell
Mollie Collins
Morag Davies
Mr D Gordon
MR DAVID J ROBERTSON
Ms. Amina Mangera
Mustofa Gulam
Nadia Ermilova
Nafeica Wafaquani
Nathan
Neil Parry
Neil Vaughan
Neville Smith - 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.
Nic Outterside
Nick Gillott
Nick Lonsdale
Nick Mc Donough
Nick McDonough
Nicola Radford
Nigel Bowden Burnley CLP.
NIGEL CUTTS
Nigel Harrop
Nigel James Chester Labour
Nina Greenwood
Olga Dunning
Oonagh Amb
Owen Jones
Owen T Jones Journalist
Paige Rawsthorn
Pam Bromley
Pam Kettlety
Pam Lowrey
Pam Thompson
Pamela Lowrey
Patchouli Julie
Patricia Betty -  Brilliant piece Tells it just like it is. Those MPs are tearing the Party apart. They should all be made to resign
Patricia Brindley
Patricia Currie
Patricia Griffiths
patricia irwin
Patricia Melia
Patricia Roberts - 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!!!!
Patricia Sheerin I'm a Putney CLP member
Patricia Sheerin-Richman
Patrick Kearns
Patrick mccreesh
Patrick Pennington
Paul Aitkenhead
Paul Bower
Paul C. Allington
Paul Cronk
Paul Ewart - 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.
Paul Harris
Paul James
Paul Jennings LP member North Thanet CLP
paul mccue
Paul McLean
paul mcnulty
Paul Metsers
Paul Roberts
Paul Robeson Fletcher
Paul robinson
Paul Steadman
Paula Eaton (Pesic) Congleton CLP
Pauline King
Pauline Lowery
Penny Tunbridge Labour Party member, Maldon CLP.
Pete Jones-Price
Pete Price -Ashfield Labour Party member
Pete Price Ashfield LP M
Peter Benson
Peter Berry
Peter Brierley
Peter Buckley
Peter Callaghan
Peter Cope
peter green
Peter Harris
Peter Hitchen
Peter irons
Peter Kay - Rugby LP member
Peter Morton
Peter Morton I'm in Rochester & Strood CLP
Phil Lee
Phil Riley
Phil Smith
Phil Spurr
Phil Turner I'm a full member too, please add my name
Philip Castle
Phillip O'Brien
Prue Lilley
Prue Plumridge
Rachael Ingham
Rachel Lever - 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.
Rachel Littlewood
Radmila Vujnovic
Ramone Ellis
Raphael Salkie
raven byrne
Ray Hall
Rebecca Wallace
Renate St Clair Tracy
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Rich King
Richard Christie - 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
Richard gibbs
Richard Kilbride
Richard Williamson
RICHIE GREGORY
Rick Osman
Rik Stack Labour member Wakefield CLP.
River Topaz
Robert Bushell
Robert Carr
Robert Eyton
Robert Kent
Rod Sunley
Roger Howard
Roger Moore
Roger Moore LP member Camborne
Ron Dean
Ron Roberts
Rona Topaz
Rory Fitzgerald, Walthamstow
Rosemary Ainsworth
Rosemary Kate Hughes
Ross Johnson
Roy Smith
Roy Williams I'm a full member, btw
Ruth Gaunt
Ruth Gordon, Tottenham.
Ruth Knight
Ryan Worth
S.Akhtar
Sabine Ebert-Forbes
Sally Osborn
Sally Smith
Sam West
Samantha Iles
Sandra Legate
Sandra McLaren
Sandra Paynter
Sara Wilford
Sarah Gray - Jeremy Corbyn was voted in with a huge majority. Momentum is gathering. We do not need to be battling with ourselves, we need to use our combined energy to defeat this horrific government.
Sarah Hannaford
Sarah Hatch and Daniel Edwards
Sarah Hay
Sarah Robinson
sarah robinson
Sasha Clarkson
Sharon Harris
Sharon Preece
Sharon Walsh
Sharron Giles Cooke
Sheena Farenden
Sheila Mary Roberts
Sheila Scoular
Sheila Sheppard Labour Party member, Milton Keynes North.
Sian Wilson
Sid Cassidy, Unite, ex District Councillor, Rugby Benn Ward, Labour.
Simon Abbott
Simon Banfield
Simon Childs
Simon Reid
Simon Strang
Simon Wormald
Simone Fairclough W6 resident
simone longley
Sophia Hamilton
Stacey Cowling
Steffi Thompson
Stephen Kelly
Stephen Myatt
Stephen Reid
Stephen Vickers
Stevan Chambers
Steve Bagnall
Steve Chapman
Steve Cheney
Steve Lawler
Steve Miller
Steve Palmer
Steve Peck
Steve Rudd
Steve Shopland
Steve shopland
steven heyward
Steven Middleton
Stewart Hyde
Stewart Whitehead
Stuart Dillon
Sue Brock
Sue Coe
Sue Davies
Sue Dean
Sue Liversidge
Sue Murphy
Sue Taylor
Sue webster
Sumita Sem
Susan Allen
Susan Elizabeth Hyett
Susan Hall
Susan Pearce
susan pearce
Suzanne Janes Labour Party member in Corby and Easy Northants
Suzanne Keeler-MacDonald
Suzanne Rees
Ted Duggan
terence armitage
Terence Pearson
Teresa Beddis
Terri Bennett
Terry Casey
Terry Kinnard
Terry Mandrell
Terry Osaurusies XI
Theresa Jackson
Think again, you idiots!
Thomas Hulls
Tim Knight Morley and Outwood CLP
Tim Needham
Tim White
Timothy Longson
Tino Palmer LP, Hemsworth
Tom Webster
tony fisher
Tony Foster
Tony Fox (Blackpool South)
Tony Glover
Tony Shephard
Tracey Roderick
Tracy Allgrove
Tracy Nelms
Trevor Cotton
Trevor McPherson
val brookes
Val Clingo
Val Hanson
Valerie Marriott
Vicky Ryder
victoria quigley
Viv taylor
Vivian Scarlett
Waida Forman
Warren Tommey
Wayne Pickrell
Wayne Pickrell Forgot, I am a Labour party member
Wend Martin
Wendy Louie Easter
Wendy Patterson
wendy smith
William Byrne
Yvonne Douglas
Yvonne Mills
Yvonne Parmenter
Yvonne Rose
Yzabel Field
Stewart Dunbar Woodhouse and Hyde Park Branch Leeds Central CLP
Trevor G Kersey Hull member
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.

350 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.

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Piers Wildman
12/7/2016 03:03:12 pm

Put my name on.

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Margaret Laytom
29/6/2017 09:21:44 pm

We pay your wages
Do your job and get behind the electorate or go and join the tories
I am twice your age and waited a lifetime for a real labour leader
Now we have one

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.

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Red ....Harkinson... link
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

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linda jones
30/6/2017 10:12:59 am

All chancres should be removed before Jeremy becomes our PM

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Janice Johnson link
30/6/2017 10:39:03 am

Please add my name, or let me know how to add my name


Many thanks

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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,

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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.

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Maureen Hancock
18/3/2016 10:33:36 am

Excellent letter. Please add my name.

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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

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Maureen Saunders link
30/6/2017 01:58:37 am

I agree

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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

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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!!

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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.

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Kenny morrison link
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

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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!!!!

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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.

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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.

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Sarah Gray
18/3/2016 10:52:09 am

Please add my name.
Jeremy Corbyn was voted in with a huge majority. Momentum is gathering. We do not need to be battling with ourselves , we need to use our combined energy to defeat this horrific government.

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June Helm link
18/3/2016 10:52:57 am

Excellent letter. Will you please include my name. Thank you

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keith jackson
18/3/2016 10:54:44 am

My name too please. This egotistic self seeking troublemaker needs challenging.

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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

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Peter Cope
18/3/2016 11:03:00 am

Please add my name.

And Chuka, you had a chance to stand for election as leader but you bailed out. So, as in any fair election you need to put up and shut up now.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
Pick up your toys, put them back in your prams and close the door quietly on your way out.

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Mike Kennard
18/3/2016 11:19:10 am

Please add my name (Chatham & Aylesford CLP treasurer)

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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.

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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.

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Ken Dunlop
18/3/2016 11:28:48 am

Labour Party member, Liverpool Walton CLP.. Please add my name to this letter

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Glynn Smith
18/3/2016 11:33:47 am

Please add me to the list.
I suspect there are double agents in the mix.
'When I was a lad' the Tories seemed further left than the Labour party that certain backbenchers envisage. That's no use whatsoever to the electorate.
Jeremy Corbyn's vision of the Labour party gets my full support.

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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.

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell now have an Economic advisory panel comprising a selection of those outstanding and respected economists. The idea that a selection of malcontent back-bench MPs can match this expertise is laughable - and delusional on your part. Your faction lost the leadership election for good reasons. If cannot get behind the party's elected leader, then it's time for you to join another party, or resign your seats!

Please add my name to this letter.

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Jan Garbutt
19/3/2016 10:08:56 pm

They are damaging our party,knuckle down and fight the Tories.

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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.

Corbyn has been warned about results in May, however, Scotland was always going to be a struggle. The latest polls have suggested that it is Kezia Dugdale who is failing Labour in Scotland not Corbyn. The scottish voters dont like the fact Corbyn is hamstringed by the New Labour MPs and Kezia with her campaigning about the Indyref and lying that she did not join the tories has obviously had a detrimental effect. Furthermore, she was deputy to Jim Murphy a man so ridiculed in Scotland for taking for granted voters and the assumption that Labour will always be strong in Scotland.


Please tell me would the likes of Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham honestly turnaround the fortunes in Scotland, when their campaigns were based on many of the things the majority of voters in Scotland hated about New Labour, Blair and "Red Tories"

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Peter Morton
18/3/2016 12:02:52 pm

Please add my name.
I'm in Rochester & Strood CLP

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Patrick mccreesh
18/3/2016 12:11:08 pm

Great letter please add my name longtime labour voter.
Chuka start supporting yr leader and in turn the labour party as a whole and show a united party ready to take on the torys if you can't do that then leave instead of trying to undermine JC at every opportunity along with yr cronies.

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Charles Abrahams
18/3/2016 12:11:22 pm

Please add me to the list.

I am totally disgusted by the wreckless self serving action of these people who claim to represent the Labour Party when in fact they only represent themselves. Make no doubt their treachery will be remembered.

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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.

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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

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Geoffrey Spittles
18/3/2016 12:21:17 pm

Go now. You are not a socialist.

I am a Labour Party member (Hastings and Rye), but I do not associate myself with you

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Andy Thomas
18/3/2016 12:22:41 pm

I wholeheartedly agree with this, please add my signature.

Andy Thomas, London SW9

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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.
You should be supporting the shadow cabinet and leadership, not undermining it.
I am a member of the Labour Party and was one of the many, old and new who voted for Jeremy Corbyn to be leader, democratic socialists, not Tory-lite.

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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.

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Steven Middleton
18/3/2016 12:34:28 pm

we need a viable alterative to the Tories not more of the same

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Dr Charles Smith
18/3/2016 12:40:02 pm

Please add my name to this list
Dr Charles Smith
(County Councillor)
Labour member for 40+ years
Fed up of these arrogant, self serving, treacherous Blairite stool-pigeons.

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derek white link
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

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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.

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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!"

Please add my name.

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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.

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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..
Chukka you will NEVER BE ELECTED LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY..

let us just get that one straight!!

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Darryl W Collins
18/3/2016 01:00:36 pm

Labour Councillor.
Please add my name to this letter, I like you am keen to understand or hear a reason for their treachery!

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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!!

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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.

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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

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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.

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Ruth Gordon
18/3/2016 01:37:55 pm

Accept the democratic vote. Full and active member, Tottenham.

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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.

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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...

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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

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Pamela Lowrey
18/3/2016 01:56:42 pm

Please add my name. Full Labour Party member and very angry.

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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.
If you dislike Socialists that much join the Tories; I fear the Liberals will be too left wing for you!

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Yzabel Field
18/3/2016 01:58:50 pm

If it is not too late, please add my name.

Jeremy, John and their Ministers know what they are doing and are doing a good job. Please will the Bitterites support them and oppose and defeat the government when appropriate. I have been a Labour Party member since 1974. I was a conference delegate in 1998 when we all applauded Mo Mowlem, to the embarrassment of Tony Blair!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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Joanna Rowland-Stuart
18/3/2016 02:13:45 pm

Please add my name

How dare this cabal undermine our democratically elected leader?

Full Member, Brighton Kemptown CLP

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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.

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edward plumridge
18/3/2016 02:16:20 pm

Go and work in the city if all you are interested in is money -

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Elizabeth Kenward
18/3/2016 02:23:45 pm

Please add my name To the disloyal band of backbenchers ;
Please stop behaving in such a self serving manner.Jeremy Corbyn is the democratically elected leader of the Labour party and you should have the decency to do the job you have been elected to do .We all need to work together to get rid of this evil goverment.

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Pauline Lowery
18/3/2016 02:24:55 pm

Yes, let's get them to understand the feeling outside of Westminster

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Glenn Martin
18/3/2016 02:34:43 pm

Please add me to the list of signatures.
Many thanks in solidarity we stand.

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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.

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Cllr Ryland Doyle
18/3/2016 02:59:50 pm

Please add my name to letter

Ryland Doyle
Councillor, Lllansamlet Ward, Swansea City Council.

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Frances Patterson
18/3/2016 03:05:41 pm

Labour party member and Corbyn supporter. Please add my name.

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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.

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Patricia Melia
18/3/2016 03:23:15 pm

LP Member.would you add my name.Please

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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...

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Freda Bunce
18/3/2016 03:40:15 pm

I am a full Labour member please will you add my name.

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Annette Taberner
18/3/2016 03:44:13 pm

excellent - thanks for writing.

I expect these MPs want us out campaigning in local elections and the EU referendum but it's a big disincentive if your efforts are undermined by selfish self publicists sniping from the sidelines.

Add my name please

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Andy Waddell-Tillbrook
18/3/2016 03:56:43 pm

Please add my name.

I notice Chuka Umunna abstained on the disability benefit (ESA), therefore supporting the Conservatives. Perhaps he would be happier joining a party that apparently fits his right wing beliefs more closely than the Labour Party does.

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coral Jones
18/3/2016 04:11:43 pm

Please add my name, member of Hackney South CLP

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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.

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Liam J Liburd
18/3/2016 04:31:31 pm

Please add my name.

Liam J Liburd
Broomhill, Sheffield Central CLP

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David Belfield
18/3/2016 04:36:53 pm

LP member Staffordshire Moorlands.

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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!!

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catherine powell
30/6/2017 01:29:34 pm

your ego has no place in a socialist party..Unity is the only way forward

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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?

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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

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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!!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
Originally from Scotland please be aware that Jeremy Corbyn will be the best leader to persuade the Scots to go back to Labour. They want an alternative to the Tories.

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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

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Cath Peach
18/3/2016 05:12:11 pm

please add my name

Cath Peach LP member

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John Gillespie
18/3/2016 05:14:03 pm

Socialist from birth 53 years ago. Party member since September 2015.

Get behind the democratically elected leader or get out of the party.

Appalling acts of cruelty are being perpetrated by the Tories and you are allowing this to happen.

STOP NOW!

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Nigel Bowden
18/3/2016 05:17:48 pm

Burnley CLP.

Enough is enough. Join the fight or cross the floor.

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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.

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Alison Bowden
18/3/2016 05:25:11 pm

Burnley CLP

Support the leadership or go form your own party. Perhaps the Liberal Democrats need a hand?

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Jean Thirtle
18/3/2016 05:26:54 pm

Member North Norfolk CLP

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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.

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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

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Janice Finn
18/3/2016 05:36:47 pm

Labour Party Member. Wythenshawe and Sale East CLP.

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Karen capovila
18/3/2016 05:37:56 pm

Barrow CLP
Please add my name to this list, these MPs are a disgrace, trying to form a parallel government opposition within the Labour Party. If they had effectively opposed this govt over the last 10 years Corbyn would still be on the back benches

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martine butler
18/3/2016 05:41:26 pm

Please add my name

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Jennifer Thompson Houghton & Sunderland South CLP
18/3/2016 05:43:46 pm

Please add my name.

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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.

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Rodney Nicholls Bradford Easr CLP
18/3/2016 05:46:11 pm

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Hereward Corbett
18/3/2016 05:51:16 pm

Secretary, West Cotswolds Branch Labour Party

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Paula Eaton (Pesic)
18/3/2016 05:51:30 pm

Congleton CLP
If you can not listen to the democratic wishes of your party members, what sort of a leader would you be? I would say you are exposed. #democracydenier

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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.

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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.

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Justin Knight
18/3/2016 05:56:30 pm

I fully support Jeremy Corbyn. I am a member of The Labour Party (Torbay).

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Jane Lawson (Greenwich CLP)
18/3/2016 06:06:25 pm

You need to learn a number of things:

Loyalty to a leader with a huge mandate

Your political position is to the right of Harold Macmillan, Ted Heath and even John Major great swathes of the electorate want a Labiur Party somewhat to the left of them, not another version of the Tories.

Democratic Socialists work for the good of all, not personal aggrandisement.

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Pete Price
18/3/2016 06:08:18 pm

Please add my name
It not all about following the leader
Its about respecting the membership choice

Pete Price Ashfield LP M

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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Arvind Jadwa
18/3/2016 06:29:28 pm

Chuka, I was a big fan of yours until you betrayed JC.

Admin, please add my name. Thank you

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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!

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Colin Blundell link
18/3/2016 06:34:39 pm

Please add me. South Holland CLP
I joined Labour for Jeremy.
Chuka and his mates should support him too.

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Elspeth Parris
18/3/2016 06:34:48 pm

Please add my name. Full Labour member, Brecon and Radnor constituency.

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Kevin Morrison
18/3/2016 06:37:59 pm

Add me vice chair Poulton and district CLP

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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.

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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.

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Philip Castle
18/3/2016 06:45:56 pm

Please add me to.

Get over to the other side of the despatch box where you belong. They do a nice line in treachery and deceit over there, you'll fit right in

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Billie Reynolds
18/3/2016 06:47:41 pm

Reading West CLP

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Gerry McGarvey link
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.

We, the undersigned, would appreciate if you might begin to respect our voices.

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Bernadette Stokoe
18/3/2016 06:49:59 pm

Member, Arundel & South Downs CLP

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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.
Think again, you idiots!

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Kathryn Gordon
18/3/2016 06:54:38 pm

please add my name

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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.

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Sid Cassidy
18/3/2016 07:12:49 pm

Get behind Our Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party.
The Blairrites may have won 3 elections but you failed to win the last 2 elections. Time for a change.

Sid Cassidy, Unite, ex District Councillor, Rugby Benn Ward, Labour.

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Janet McCulloch
18/3/2016 07:15:12 pm

Labour Party member, Galloway

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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?

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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

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Andy Coombes
18/3/2016 08:16:39 pm

Andy Coombes; Stroud CLP

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Elizabeth Pettit
18/3/2016 08:25:29 pm

Stop doing the Tories work for them and unite behind our leader.

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christine watson link
18/3/2016 08:29:19 pm

very disappointed in you Mr Umunna,
I have always been a labour voter, now am a green candidate until the party comes out against Fracking and Trident ie follows Jeremy's example who is supported by hundreds of thousands of Labour voters if not millions in this country. It is time for the likes of you to go, the writing is on the wall, open your eyes.

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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.

Maria Cavaliere
Labour Party Member
Luton

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Lisbeth Bourne
19/3/2016 12:01:43 am

Please add my name Bury CLP

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Graham Askew
18/3/2016 08:43:13 pm

add me please as a Corbyn supporter

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Simon Reid
18/3/2016 08:44:57 pm

Please add my name to the above open letter

Many thanks

Simon Reid

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Max Wootton
18/3/2016 08:45:24 pm

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brian gillies link
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

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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.

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Rachel Littlewood
18/3/2016 08:52:27 pm

Please add my name. I am a full LP member. Newark

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Gill Eddy
18/3/2016 08:53:20 pm

Could you please add my name?

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Mary wardle
18/3/2016 08:53:21 pm

Please add my name

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David Roberts
18/3/2016 08:55:04 pm

Please add my name

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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.

I am currently a member of Harrogate & Knaresborough District Labour Party. It is wonderful to have such a principled, democratically elected, leader. as Jeremy Corbyn, and to have abondoned the neo-liberal policies of New Labour.

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Anth Hindmarch link
18/3/2016 08:55:28 pm

Support the leader or resign.

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James Myers
18/3/2016 08:55:39 pm

Please add my name as signature

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Mark Bradshaw
18/3/2016 08:55:58 pm

Weston-super-Mare CLP

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David Mills link
18/3/2016 08:57:36 pm

Member Braintree and Witham CLP.
Please add my name.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Rose Seabury
18/3/2016 09:10:54 pm

Please add my name (Labour Party Member)

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Carole McCulloch
18/3/2016 09:11:15 pm

Please put my name on the list

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Stephen Barksby
18/3/2016 09:11:42 pm

PLeas add my name as a signature to this letter,Thanks

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Sharon Hingley
18/3/2016 09:14:16 pm

Please add my name - Member

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Christine Cullen
18/3/2016 09:15:42 pm

LP member

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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.

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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.

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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.
Robert Fillies member Dover CLP.

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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.

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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,

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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

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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!

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Penny Tunbridge
18/3/2016 09:51:21 pm

Labour Party member, Maldon CLP.

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Christine Bergin
18/3/2016 09:51:26 pm

Add my name please.
You people need to act on the Honorable part of being an MP and stop all this disloyalty. The Party members have made their choice. If you dont like it feel free to join another party.

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John Challen
18/3/2016 09:53:15 pm

Colchester CLP member, and GMB member.
We don't need a 'Shadow Shadow Cabinet'. We need unity behind the democratically elected leader.

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Beverley Coxhead
18/3/2016 09:57:59 pm

Please add my name to the open letter

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Jo Hand
18/3/2016 10:08:29 pm

Add my name please

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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!

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Fauziah Petra Court
18/3/2016 10:20:22 pm

Oops Please add my name too x

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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.

Why are you wasting your skills, knowledge, resources and time on attacking our leader rather than strengthening the attack and opposition against the Conservatives? Why are you letting the people of the UK down so badly like that? I understand if you don't agree with Jeremy, that is your opinion. We however, democratically overwhelmingly voted for him. So please respect that, like we have to respect the Conservatives being in office with under 24% majority. Jeremy had 3 X that majority, he had more than Tony Blaire. Please respect that. And do the job we pay you to do. Otherwise, you're not doing your job as you're not representing us, and you could end up being voted out of your own constituency.

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Pam Thompson
18/3/2016 10:16:33 pm

I joined the Labour Party because of Jeremy Corbyn
If disloyal labour party members overthrow him I shall leave the labour party. The only reason I decided to join labour for the first time in my 61 years is because of Jeremy Corbyn.

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Nadia Ermilova
18/3/2016 10:18:20 pm

Include my name as well. I am a member too (Streatham).

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Vicky Ryder
18/3/2016 10:20:57 pm

Umunna etc all should be disciplined. They are so arrogant. Please add my name.

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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.

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Samantha Iles
18/3/2016 10:35:00 pm

Please add my name.

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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

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Colin Nicholson
18/3/2016 10:36:08 pm

LP member please add me

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Jill Narin
18/3/2016 10:40:48 pm

Jill Narin Plymouth Moor View CLP.
The PLP should be backing Jeremy and remind themselves he won by a huge mandate! I'd also request that Ben Bradshaw be more respectful towards Jeremy

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Stephen Myatt
18/3/2016 10:42:07 pm

Please add my name - Labour Party member.

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Oonagh Amb
18/3/2016 10:42:13 pm


It is shocking to think that the Likes of that man Chuka Umunna, has the audacity to degrade a man that has more dignity than he, or any of those who are outwardly attacking Mr Corbyn. He ( Umunna ) should well remember that he was part of Labours disastrous loss in 2015 G Election. If he, or those others do not want to work along side Mr Corbyn to help get us ( Labour ) back in power, then I'd say to them GO, there is an exit, take it.

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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.

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Carolyne Darmanin
18/3/2016 10:44:44 pm

Stop being a traitor to the leader

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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.

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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.

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Phillip O'Brien
18/3/2016 10:55:42 pm

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Paul James
18/3/2016 11:01:31 pm

Add me too, please!

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Geraldine Fitzgerald
18/3/2016 11:04:11 pm

Please add my name to this letter.
Jeremy Corbyn is the man voted by the people to be the party leader.
Blair-lite politics have no relevance any more.

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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.

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Colin Wilkes
18/3/2016 11:04:57 pm

These people are acting as individuals who think they have all the answers.
They dont. Jeremy Corbyn is the party Leader and as such they should not be placing themselves and or others in positions to compromise his position as leader.
The labour party is based upon collective action by all the members and not a cabal of those who see themselves as being beyond party Discipline.

Please add my name to the list opposing the Umunna/ Leslie cabal.

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Christopher Gregg
18/3/2016 11:09:30 pm

Count me in please.

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David Merry
18/3/2016 11:11:19 pm

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Rod Sunley
18/3/2016 11:13:13 pm

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Kim Skerten
18/3/2016 11:16:58 pm

Please add my name to the list

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Ann Carton
18/3/2016 11:18:58 pm

Please add my name. I'm a LP member.
I sense Blair's influence behind all this vying for position. No Red Tories thanks. If you're not happy, join the opposition then everyone knows where they stand.

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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

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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!

This is the Labour Party, not the Chuka Umunna Party! You didn't want the leadership once the press were interested in your personal life. What did you expect?! So, grow up! Get on with your job instead of playing school playground 'secret club' games and help unite the party against the Tories, not each other! If you really can't get behind the Labour leader, go play your games in another party.....you may find the Tories more to your liking?! You could join in their nice filibustering games when you don't like something, just up your street!

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Roy Smith
18/3/2016 11:35:09 pm

Please add my name to the letter. Ogmore labour

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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.

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Harvey Lloyd
18/3/2016 11:44:44 pm

sign my name i am a full paid up member

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Ian Watson link
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?

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Ricardo Sajor
18/3/2016 11:53:50 pm

Please add my name as well

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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
You should leave the party if you won't support it's elected leader

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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.

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Mike Veitch
19/3/2016 12:09:49 am

Please include my name on this list. I am a party member.

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Steve Rudd link
19/3/2016 12:34:48 am

Dear Chuka Umunna.

Jeremy Corbyn was overwhelmingly elected as the leader of the Labour Party. Stop "chukk-ing" your toys out of the pram, accept the fact that he is leader, and suck it up, buttercup. Or fuck off, and when you get there, fuck off some more and join the Tories, since you already seem to be doing their work for them. Seriously, have a word with yourself.

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Margaret Parker
19/3/2016 12:47:24 am

LP member. Please add my name to this excellent letter.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Sheena Farenden
19/3/2016 02:44:54 am

Please add my name. If they don't like the leader we voted for leave

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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

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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.
Even if you don't like Cornyn at least he is better than a case of 'do what the Tories do, just not quite as bad' which won't win Tory voters and alienates left-leaning voters. Sadly so many blairites are blind to their own failings.

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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.
There are no knee jerk, sound bite quotes, which often are misquoted by the Tory owned media.
Corbyn is a rare thing in modern politics, he thinks.
Then, having considered his options, responds.
Thinking, at times appears thingies be beyond the capabilities of thing I me so he blue labour back bench, backstabbing, self serving wanna be loses.

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Jayne Linney link
19/3/2016 06:01:33 am

Hi Eileen agree totally, please add me xx

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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

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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.

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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!

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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?

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Lyn Kendall
19/3/2016 08:47:30 am

Support your leader, or leave....easy as !!

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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!
Support the elected leader , stop being so self serving!!

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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.

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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.
Many of the CLPs which have right wing Labour MPS in the West Midlands rarely meet and have withered away under the Blairites. Inner party democracy- forget it. We need to re-build the party from the bottom up.

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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
I hear parish councils are often short of applicants.

Please add my name to the letter

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Sarah Hatch and Daniel Edwards
19/3/2016 09:41:46 am

We would both like our name added to this list please.

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Darren Wilson
19/3/2016 09:48:03 am

Please add my name "Darren Wilson CLP member"

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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!

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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.

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Kirsty McNaught
19/3/2016 10:08:44 am

Labour Member, Blackpool South.

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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.

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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.

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Katrina Stelzner
19/3/2016 11:13:25 am

Please add my name to this letter. I am a Labour Party member.

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Tim Knight
19/3/2016 11:19:52 am

Morley and Outwood CLP

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john a thatcher link
19/3/2016 11:30:55 am

As a full member of the Labour party,I fully support this letter.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Carly Wray
19/3/2016 11:59:27 am

Please add me to the list (I'm a Labour party member)

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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.
Jeremy Corbin achieved a landslide victory against all the odds. Chuka, how can you be in the Labour Party with so little understanding of democracy?

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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.

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Alan Ingram link
19/3/2016 12:49:25 pm

I cannot believe in the politics of any man who did not vote against the welfare.

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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.

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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.

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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.

We need someone with morality and fight. Back Jeremy or shut up and join some other party.

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Rik Stack
19/3/2016 02:35:41 pm

Labour member Wakefield CLP.

The words
Peace Unity and Honour
are important especially in the face of despotic government administration.

Please consider these words Chukka Umuna, in your further actions.

We can be a 'broad church' whilst acknowledging diversity and to destroy the church rather nurturing that diversity will simply and stupidly result in a destroyed church?!?

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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
Please feel free to add my name to this list
I am a full member of Gateshead CLP

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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!

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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.
Chukka Umuna has been behaving disgracefully and I want him to stop, him and his cronies.

Julie Dean

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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
Labour Party member .. York Central

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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

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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?

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Sheila Sheppard
19/3/2016 05:10:45 pm

Labour Party member, Milton Keynes North.
Jeremy Corbyn was voted in with a huge majority, which is still growing. Momentum is gathering. Now is the time to put aside differences, and all work together to defeat this horrific government. Please just go and ask Jeremy Corbyn & John McDonnell what you can do to help!

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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.

The labour party will not allow you and the other right wingers to wreak continuing damage to our party which I joined in 1965. Please support the democratically elected leader. Or at least please just keep quiet. It's over. Get that we'll paid job from your mates and key the grown ups get on with running the party and winning the election

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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.

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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.

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Steve Peck
19/3/2016 07:57:50 pm

Please add me.
Following Mr Corbyns election, I am rejoining the LP from the Greens.
Neo-liberalism and its adherence to free market economics has failed economically and culturally. It is time for an aspirational, intelligent rebooted socialism for the 21st century.

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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.

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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).

Lifetime Labour supporter, long time member and Trade Unionist.

Please add my name to this letter.

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Denise Ireland
19/3/2016 09:38:24 pm

I agree

Please add my name to this open letter

Denise Ireland
Member CLP Stretford and Urmston

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Angela Trafford
30/6/2017 10:13:35 am

L P member please add my name.

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Linda Ann Stoker
19/3/2016 10:06:28 pm

Labour Party member South Norfolk

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Angela McEvoy
20/3/2016 12:07:14 am

Voted Labour 40 years joined Party May 2015 after GE Defeat. Sefton CLP.

Please add my name to list.

Chukka you and the gang will never again be trusted within the membership. It's so sad because there is so much talent in your gang. You need us more than we need you. Decision time for you my friend.

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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.

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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!!

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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!

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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 :)

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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.

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Elinor Scott
20/3/2016 06:26:24 pm

Joined the labour party when Jeremy Corbyn was elected.

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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.

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ian davies
20/3/2016 09:56:50 pm

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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.

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GEORGE LAMB
22/3/2016 02:00:51 pm

Back him or leave..

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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.

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Lisa Rossetti
23/3/2016 09:33:31 am

Please add my name to this letter.
When people are starving and literally cutting their throats in JobCentres, out of desperation, it is not just astonishing strategic stupidity, but morally reprehensible and indefensible to be focusing on political factions and divisive tactics. Get behind your democratically elected leader.

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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.

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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.

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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!
You and your gang of bullies will be responsible for a split and you will go down in history as the man who destroyed Labour Party. You disgust me.

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june hawker
27/7/2016 11:39:48 pm

I really thought I would never get to the bottom of the page
I do hope JC looks at all the support he is given
For a labour leader who is constantly being berated by the press and media and his so called party
BUT as he's so lovely he'll welcome everyone back to his party I hope they remember his love and kindness when their support for him is needed

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Glynis Knight
29/6/2017 09:43:35 pm

Labour Party member L.B Brent..
Lets have Party Loyalty now...unite behind the Leader

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nick
29/6/2017 09:46:17 pm

Add my name.

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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

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Lorna Park
30/6/2017 11:07:21 am

Hear hear. Please add my name. I am a labour party member.

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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.

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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.

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Lesley Marshall
30/6/2017 11:34:35 am

please add my name. Ceredigion LP

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Mark Feathers
30/6/2017 11:35:46 am

Please add my name to the list. I'm a Labour party member.

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Terry McInnes
30/6/2017 12:12:32 pm

Can you add my name please.

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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!

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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."

I'm still waiting for a reply to his "change of mind!" As some folk have said to him online (Twitter) Is this just another 'vanity' outing for my Umunna.

Just when Mr Corbyn has had the most fantastic mandate, these people have to spoil it AGAIN!

BBC is reporting that Mr Corbyn has "sacked" 3 front benchers which is of course untrue. These people knew when they refused the whip their positions were gone. So now we have fake news again. Are these people really willing to sabotage Labour's hope of getting power? Gross dereliction of duty to the party & the country. Maybe had they been more openly supportive we may have won this election

Some new members on Twitter talking about leaving Labour Party because of the allegedly 3 sackings. I spent hours yesterday explaining the rules. Of course it was said, Mr Corbyn didn't follow 3 line whip. I replied: "That's why he was forever on the back benches!" We have to get the information out there to all our members explaining why this has happened. I ticked off Laura Kuenssberg for her "half truths". If anyone can I think it would be really important to support Jon Snow as Tories are making waves about getting him sacked, because he has been only journalist to really support Labour.

I've had enough of all of these miscreants. They either put up or shut up. That may sound harsh but they wouldn't get away with this in the real work place.

Thanks for what you are doing. Brilliant.

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Annie Weatherly-Barton
30/6/2017 01:06:30 pm

Oh and please add my name to list. Community Supporter & Children's Spirituality Practitioner.

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Iris Chrettle
30/6/2017 01:37:10 pm

Labour Party member for 70years I am now 89 Corbyn the best since ClemAtlee

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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.

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Thomas Ratcliffe link
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.

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ian mcbrias - labour party member link
30/6/2017 04:28:24 pm

I agree totally, add my name please

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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

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Marc Beswick
30/6/2017 05:14:50 pm

Please add my name to the list

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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.

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Patricia Elliott link
30/6/2017 07:22:16 pm

I am a Labour Party member from Cynon Valley Constituency. Please add my name.

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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

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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.

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Rob Jones
1/7/2017 01:36:58 am

Add My Name to the list.
Undermine U bend U turn May.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Gavin Stuart Williams
31/1/2018 03:08:12 pm

Please add my name

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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.

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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

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Jill Phillips
6/5/2018 11:05:46 pm

Fantasy Power Solicitant, Wrecker.

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bob archer
9/9/2018 12:10:49 pm

I rejoined because of Jeremy. His honesty and integrity shines out, unlike the lying tories who care for nothing but themselves. If umunaa doesnt like it then he should resign and cross the floor to where he belongs.

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Andy link
17/2/2019 05:16:40 am

JC is the leader. If that not good enough for you then leave the team.

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