Still Right

The Labour Left's only serious candidate for Deputy Leader would be Chris Williamson, and he remains suspended accordingly, although he also remains a tireless campaigner.

But in any case, if the Labour Party is to be led from the Left, as so many of us in the wider Labour Movement earnestly desire, and as the Labour Party membership is certain to ensure for many years to come, then the Deputy Leadership needs to be held by the traditional Right, redefined in historically accurate terms as the only right wing of the Labour Party.

Tom Watson was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party at the same time and by the same people as elected Jeremy Corbyn to the Leadership. If the Left, as such, had a Deputy Leadership candidate, then it was Angela Eagle. 

In choosing instead the traditional Right made flesh, then those who at the same time gave a landslide victory to Corbyn knew exactly what they were doing. They were right then, and they are still right now. Corbyn, Watson, and their respective supporters all need to bear this in mind, and act accordingly.