Obviously, no one who voted for war last night will ever lead the Labour Party.
In the country at large, for the most part in this Parliament, and certainly in the next, that party is now defined by its rejection of what has become the Conservatives' definitive support of any and all military intervention that might ever be suggested.
From 2020 onwards, General Elections will be a straight choice between the Welfare Party and the Warfare Party, since there is only enough money for one of those things.
Constituency organisations of whatever party are entirely within their rights to deselect their MPs as parliamentary candidates, and Labour's federal structure gives a role to unions and others in that private process.
But it is altogether improper for anyone outside a party's structures to seek to interfere in these matters, or for anyone at all to seek to conduct them in public.
There is no way that Tom Watson is going to be deselected. How, then, simply on the strength of this vote, can anyone else be?
It was quite clear on The Daily Politics that the campaign to deselect Stella Creasy was being organised by her TUSC opponent at the last two General Elections, with Momentum actively in support of the Labour incumbent.
Just as I have never believed that Progress was imposing parliamentary candidates on witless yokels and plebs, so I do not believe that Momentum is engaged in cajoling guileless Constituency Labour Parties into replacing their MPs with local Far Left activists who are somehow strangers to the CLP stalwarts.
Moreover, anyone who is indeed so engaged had better be very careful about their choice of target.
First as a Councillor and now as an MP, Stella Creasy has spent many years successfully campaigning against the payday loan sharks of East End. It is the highest of compliments to say that she is as hard as nails.
But it is altogether improper for anyone outside a party's structures to seek to interfere in these matters, or for anyone at all to seek to conduct them in public.
There is no way that Tom Watson is going to be deselected. How, then, simply on the strength of this vote, can anyone else be?
It was quite clear on The Daily Politics that the campaign to deselect Stella Creasy was being organised by her TUSC opponent at the last two General Elections, with Momentum actively in support of the Labour incumbent.
Just as I have never believed that Progress was imposing parliamentary candidates on witless yokels and plebs, so I do not believe that Momentum is engaged in cajoling guileless Constituency Labour Parties into replacing their MPs with local Far Left activists who are somehow strangers to the CLP stalwarts.
Moreover, anyone who is indeed so engaged had better be very careful about their choice of target.
First as a Councillor and now as an MP, Stella Creasy has spent many years successfully campaigning against the payday loan sharks of East End. It is the highest of compliments to say that she is as hard as nails.
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