Jeremy Corbyn. Isabel Infantes / PA Wire/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.In the tumultuous days since the UK voted to leave the European Union, its opposition Labour Party has descended into a bloodbath. Leader Jeremy Corbyn will face a vote of no confidence Tuesday, the latest in a series of events that began with his sacking of Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn. It was followed by a flurry of resignations from the shadow cabinet in what the British press is describing as a 'coup' against the leader by MPs disgruntled at his lacklustre performance during EU Referendum campaigning. For openDemocracy's UK editor Adam Ramsay, it's a disgrace that Labour MPs are putting internal bickering ahead of international politics at a time like this.
“I don’t care what you think about Jeremy Corbyn. This inability among key MPs to see beyond the corridors of Westminster at a time when we need international scale visionaries renders their party unelectable. Until Labour’s shadow cabinet can put the problems of the country and the world ahead of their leadership questions, they have no right to govern.”
Meanwhile, Joe Sandler Clarke, who voted for Corbyn, argues that Labour needs someone who can define the party, not someone who is defined by its opponents:
