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minus-squareTheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoOh shit. Will they actually be able to get rid of Kier though?
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYou think he’s popular in the PLP?
minus-squareTheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoNo, but there’s no mechanism to get rid of him. He would have to resign.
minus-squareIcyToes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoThere is. You can mount a leadership challenge with 20% of the PLP. The question is, do 20% have a spine or integrity. I’m not too sure.
minus-squareTheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoOh realy? I hadn’t heard this. In what form could that happen? A vote of no confidence?
minus-squareRed5@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThere is. Owen Smith in 2016 challenged Corbyn and lost the leadership election
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSo labour have no mechanism to remove a bad leader who doesn’t want to go? I knew they had authoritarian tendencies, but that’s ridiculous if true.
minus-squaremannycalavera@feddit.ukOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoUsually you have to lose two electrons in a row. One to a robot posing as a woman.
Oh shit. Will they actually be able to get rid of Kier though?
You think he’s popular in the PLP?
No, but there’s no mechanism to get rid of him. He would have to resign.
There is. You can mount a leadership challenge with 20% of the PLP. The question is, do 20% have a spine or integrity. I’m not too sure.
Oh realy? I hadn’t heard this. In what form could that happen? A vote of no confidence?
There is. Owen Smith in 2016 challenged Corbyn and lost the leadership election
So labour have no mechanism to remove a bad leader who doesn’t want to go? I knew they had authoritarian tendencies, but that’s ridiculous if true.
Usually you have to lose two electrons in a row. One to a robot posing as a woman.