The British Labour Party is tearing itself apart when it should be fighting the Tories and showing a dignified and united front.

As all of us know united we stand divided we fall.

You can lay the blame wherever you want in this ridiculous spat but the behaviour of the Parliamentary Labour Party ahead of Corbyn's election as party leader on September 12, 2015, hinted at what was to come sooner or later.

So as the country reeled from the implications of a possible exit from the European Union some in Labour decided now was the time to launch a leadership challenge.

There are many petitions around online since war broke out in the Labour Party but here is one from Patricia on Twitter asking the now-called 'Chicken Coup' plotters to basically show some balls and either launch a leadership challenge or get back to work.

#putuporshutup

The petition reads:
Labour leadership challenger & election now please. No more stalling.

To: The Labour PLP coup plotters.Please put forward your contender for the leadership NOW so a democratic vote can be held.

Enough stalling, bring forward a challenger along with policy NOW so you can get back to doing the job we tax payers pay you for., WHICH IS TO OPPOSE AND ATTACK the Tory Party.

If you cannot bring forward a challenger to Mr Corbyn and give us, the people, a democratic vote then either resign or back down.

Thank you.

You can sign the petition by following this link

Op-ed: WE the supporters, voters and members of the Labour Party are the PARTY. WE all need each other and right now with local elections weeks away it needs all willing and able hands on board.

But WE also need the best people for the job elected to the party's NEC, national executive committee.

Divisions between the left and the right of the party mean that some who want to be elected to the NEC openly oppose Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Thanks to Kev Minnette, a prospective Labour councillor, for sharing the following:

Dear Comrades

For what is probably the first time the right wing slate for the NEC put together by Progress and Labour First is getting far more CLP nominations than the Centre-left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) slate (excepting Ann Black).

Progress is a very well-funded organisation with millionaire benefactors and probably has paid employees phoning round CLP’s to get backing for its slate.

The CLGA of which CLPD is one of the main organisations, relies entirely on unpaid volunteer party members like yourselves.

Therefore, we ask you urgently to do your very best to get CLP’s to nominate for the CLGA slate of Ann Black; Ken Livingstone; Christine Shawcroft; Claudia Webbe; Darren Williams; Peter Willsman.

This is a vital task as control of the NEC will decide the future direction of the Labour Party.

Yours in socialism
Matt Stiles
Asst Sec CLPD

PS Comrades are also encouraged to press for good Annual Conference delegates from their CLP’s and where possible to stand themselves.

Friends and comrades, it seems there is another enemy to fight if we are truly going to take back the party for the people. The enemy is the NEC.

I have sent a letter to Iain McNicol leader.

Stating my concerns I am posting the letter on here, in the hope that you will all be aware that with the NEC election coming up you can encourage your own CLP [Constituency Labour Party] to put forward a candidate that is Pro Jeremy.

To Iain McNicol

As a member of the Labour Party and having voted Labour since the age of 18, a full 36 years in total, even through the debacle of the Blair years, I sat back and watched a party that my grandparents and parents fought for, be taken apart by a man and his cabinet and made into a pale blue tory party.

The party started to dismantle the unions; it turned its back on the working class and the poor.

I like many others thought the Labour Party was finished.

I watched as the media and his own party members demolished a good man in Ed Miliband.

Then Jeremy Corbyn came on the scene; a man of honesty, ideals and principals; unbelievable in a politician I know.

A true man of the people.

He is prepared to take on the government and win; which he is doing every week; despite the hurdles his own cabinet is putting in his way.

I feel hopeful for the first time in years.

Although the media in all forms are trying their hardest to discredit him, his shoulders are wide and his resolve is strong.

I expected opposition from The Progress part of the party and Labour First as these MP’s are careerist and want a job for life without having to work too hard on behalf of the people who voted them in with the added bonus of totally discounting the opinions of their constituents, {ergo the vote on Syria}.

They then had the audacity of calling foul when those said constituents tackled them about it; bleating to the press that they are being bullied.

At the same time, they thought it was reasonable to attack members who support Mr Corbyn, calling them Marxist, communist and other derogatory names. They chose to resign over the sacking of a man {Dugher} who had shown incredible disloyalty to his Leader and to the members.

They all think it’s reasonable to run to the press every chance they have and bleat how unfair life is to them. (They should try living in the real world and see how unfair life really can be).

Do these people not understand loyalty?

Behaving in this shabby way is not only disloyal to the leader but also to the MEMBERS.

Are we not the people that voted Jeremy Corbyn in on the biggest mandate in history and is it not a fact that more people have joined the party since he was elected on his policies?

I know in time The Progress Party will realise that it was their policies that lost us the last two elections and that the Blair ideology doesn’t sit well with the VOTERS.

The reason I am writing to you is the disloyalty the NEC and Labour First are showing to Mr Corbyn but more importantly it is the disloyalty to the members {the VOTERS}.

Having secret meetings behind the leaders' back, attacking his policies and trying to find ways and means to bring about his down fall. Only electing members who support the Progress party or are part of Labour First; having vetted where their loyalties lay first.

I was under the impression that the NEC was neutral to party politics; it would seem I was wrong.

As a powerful group within the Labour party I would have expected you to have openness and clarity and not operate under a cloak of secrecy. This is surely something that needs to be addressed at conference and the rules made fairer and more reflective of the opinions of the members.

After all isn’t that what DEMOCRACY is all about?

We have party within a party - a Progress Party. A group that calls themselves Labour First - whose aim is to cause the downfall of Mr Corbyn. And a very powerful group The NEC - whose members seem to be made up of the above two groups - who have secret meetings with the intention of blocking policies and to deliberately block any move that Mr Corbyn makes that they don’t want to go along with.

In anyone’s book that is not DEMOCRATIC.

What you all have forgotten is that the Labour Party is growing fast and becoming stronger every day, not because of Mr Corbyn but because of his policies.

• The ones that reflect the needs of the people, all people, the poor, the vulnerable and the working poor.
• The policies that will bring back into public ownership the assets this government has sold to their friends at prices way below their worth.
• The policies that will make sure our firemen, policemen and soldiers have the right equipment that will help to keep them safe, while working for their country.
• Policies that will put the NHS back on its feet and not in the hands of corporations that just bleed it dry.

When Mr Corbyn retires the movement will still be strong and will move forwards with true SOCIALIST policies.

If you do remove Mr Corbyn I and thousands of others will leave the Labour Party.

What all of you who still resist the move to the left and insist on following Blair’s ideology don’t realise is you risk losing the jobs you are all desperately clinging to.

We the members want change.

What I suggest we all do is come together and be a Party that can put this country back on its feet again, become a nation with a second to none manufacturing base, an NHS that will once again be envied by the world, where the poor, vulnerable and disabled are not considered criminals.

Together we can be Great again but if you all carry on as you are we will lose the election in 2020.

And we will be looking at the parties within a party for the loss.

We need to stop the in-fighting, debate the policies behind closed doors and at hustings and CLP meetings but not in the media.

Let’s all move forward as ONE.

Yours Sincerely. Karen Meanwell and Joanne Sinton