Iraq did, of course, account for several of the 500 times when Jeremy Corbyn voted against the last Labour Government. Have subsequent events proved him wrong? Or have they proved him right?
The same question needs to be asked in relation to each and every one of those votes. As does another: who was voting with the Conservative Whip? Was it Jeremy Corbyn? Or was it his detractors?
Labour MPs will be perfectly within their rights to vote against the Whip under Corbyn, as under anyone else.
That would at least entail voting at all, which would be something of a novelty for most of them, including all three of the other Leadership candidates, whatever their names might be.
£67,060, plus very generous expenses, in order to abstain. Nice "work" if you can get it.
For whenever Corbyn broke the Whip, he was answerable to the Constituency Labour Party that was responsible for whether or not to reselect him, and to the constituents who were responsible for whether or not to re-elect him.
The same would be true, on both counts, of anyone who felt moved the break the Labour Whip under his Leadership.
Still, at least the potato-like MPs are merely useless. The Labour Party's staff are an awful lot worse than that.
With decidedly thin CVs, and with absolutely no prospect of continued employment under Corbyn, many of whose key allies have old scores to settle with several of them and would love nothing better than to see them begging on the streets, they are now engaged in open and public ballot-rigging.
In some cases, full Labour Party members of several decades' standing have had their votes, which had already been cast, cancelled by the hired help. So much for having handed over the running of the thing to the ERS. Guess for whom the cancelled votes had been cast.
Tony Blair was surrounded by old Communist Party hands, plus a generous helping of old Trotskyists.
His Chief Whip at the time of the vote to invade Iraq was married to an erstwhile Communist Party candidate for a Labour seat, who was subsequently a Special Adviser with great sway over the National Health Service under the veteran Trotskyist Alan Milburn and under the veteran Stalinist, in the precise sense of the word, John Reid.
By such as those was staged the Gramscian, Eurocommunist, post-Fordist takeover of the Labour Party, which had already been guaranteed a famous victory whenever the General Election had arrived, immediately after the death of John Smith.
In any case, why does no one ever ask about dodgy pasts and dodgy links on the Right?
David Cameron visited the old South Africa as an all-expenses-paid guest of the apartheid regime, and he lowered the flag over the Palace of Westminster when the torturing, mass-murdering, Islamist-sponsoring King of Saudi Arabia died, before jetting off to pay court to the new one.
There is any amount of this kind of thing.
£67,060, plus very generous expenses, in order to abstain. Nice "work" if you can get it.
For whenever Corbyn broke the Whip, he was answerable to the Constituency Labour Party that was responsible for whether or not to reselect him, and to the constituents who were responsible for whether or not to re-elect him.
The same would be true, on both counts, of anyone who felt moved the break the Labour Whip under his Leadership.
Still, at least the potato-like MPs are merely useless. The Labour Party's staff are an awful lot worse than that.
With decidedly thin CVs, and with absolutely no prospect of continued employment under Corbyn, many of whose key allies have old scores to settle with several of them and would love nothing better than to see them begging on the streets, they are now engaged in open and public ballot-rigging.
In some cases, full Labour Party members of several decades' standing have had their votes, which had already been cast, cancelled by the hired help. So much for having handed over the running of the thing to the ERS. Guess for whom the cancelled votes had been cast.
Tony Blair was surrounded by old Communist Party hands, plus a generous helping of old Trotskyists.
His Chief Whip at the time of the vote to invade Iraq was married to an erstwhile Communist Party candidate for a Labour seat, who was subsequently a Special Adviser with great sway over the National Health Service under the veteran Trotskyist Alan Milburn and under the veteran Stalinist, in the precise sense of the word, John Reid.
By such as those was staged the Gramscian, Eurocommunist, post-Fordist takeover of the Labour Party, which had already been guaranteed a famous victory whenever the General Election had arrived, immediately after the death of John Smith.
In any case, why does no one ever ask about dodgy pasts and dodgy links on the Right?
David Cameron visited the old South Africa as an all-expenses-paid guest of the apartheid regime, and he lowered the flag over the Palace of Westminster when the torturing, mass-murdering, Islamist-sponsoring King of Saudi Arabia died, before jetting off to pay court to the new one.
There is any amount of this kind of thing.
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