Monday 9 December 2019

Leading Questions

If Jeremy Corbyn were not Prime Minister this time next week, then he would not resign as Leader of the Labour Party.

Rather, he would submit to another Leadership Election with himself as a candidate, having established in 2016 his legal right to do so without the need of nominations. That would rule out anyone from the Shadow Cabinet, for a start. He would need to beat only Creasy, or Streeting, or Phillips, or whoever else would struggle to take 30 per cent of the vote.

But the battle would scarcely have begun. Since her election in 2017, Laura Pidcock has been at the heart, although certainly not at the head, of a tiny faction that got lucky beyond its wildest dreams when it took it upon itself to run the hugely successful social media side of Corbyn's first Leadership campaign.

Barely on the Left, as such, at all, those people are primarily treacherous and self-serving. I just happen to have known them for years.

Therefore, I know that around and behind Pidcock, that faction is poised to take over the Labour Party itself as soon as Corbyn did retire. It intends to make her Deputy Leader now that that position is vacant, and then it intends to make her Leader, putting it one General Election (and no Government lasts forever) away from a full-blown coup d'état.

But Pidcock could not be a candidate either for Deputy Leader or for Leader if she were not a Member of Parliament. Vote for me.

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