Over the weekend, Ken Livingston backed plans to deselect MPs who are criticising the new leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
He told BBC's Sunday Politics that:
"If your local MP is undermining Jeremy Corbyn, opposing the policies, opposing the anti-austerity measures that we want, people should have the right to say "Well, I'd like to have an MP who reflects my views," it should be a job for life."
It's incredibly hypocritical after Jeremy Corbyn himself has spent a lifetime of opposing ex Labour leaders such as Blair, and Brown, and has been commended for doing so.
What makes it worse, they begged, and practically forced those moderate MPs, who either backed Yvette Cooper or Andy Burnham, to give Jeremy Corbyn their endorsement so he could stand for the Labour leadership to "widen the debate."
Now these MPs are sticking to what they believe, like Jeremy Corbyn did as a back bencher for years, they might be purged for doing so.
Because the far left don't agree with the centrists of the party, they are therefore no longer wanted, or needed, unless you're called Andy Burnham, and will change your beliefs just so you can have a little power.
Is this what Corbyn meant by a "new, gentler politics"? Is this what his supporters meant by widening the debate?
Mike Gapes, Labour MP for Ilford South, recently disagreed on Twitter, and Corbyn's supporters and trolls quickly came out to blast him for it, saying he should leave the Labour Party, that he was no longer welcome.
How kind!
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