Quite right. The Iraq War, as Chilcot has shown was also in part a consequence of a Labour Party regime that was Bonapartist rather than democratic, with Blair acting in a Presidential role, outside the control of the party. That is the model that Kinnock reintroduced in the 1980’s, and which the 172 members of the PLP that opposed Corbyn want to revert to, after first reasserting their own independence from the party.

More recently, Eagle and most of the 172, including Owen Smith, abstained on the vote on the Tories £12 billion of cuts in benefits to the disabled, in the Welfare Bill. These 172 all now tell us that they are changed people after they have seen the Corbyn light of reason, and are now committed social-democrats who will continue to follow the path of compassion and anti-austerity. Really? Are we supposed to be so gullible as to beleive they have had such a Damascene conversion? Maybe the Tory press will believe such garbage, but no thinking person could.

A look at how Angela Eagle first obtained her seat in Wallasey, on the basis of a witchhunt of Lol Duffy, a long-time trade unionist at Cammell Lairds, and Labour Party activist, shows just what these people are, and why we should not trust them.

Eagle should be asked if she regrets not opposing the Tories cuts to disability benefit a few months ago, and does she support mandatory reselection of MP’s, to ensure that MP’s continue to reflect the party they represent? After all, every Councillor, every Labour Party Secretary, Chair and so on has to be selected every election; shop stewards and other union officers have to be regularly elected and so on, so what makes MP’s different?