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So the Tories have spent the week worshipping at the feet of their newly crowned queen. They have praised her, supported her and pledged their help in the difficult days ahead. And as Queen Theresa herself works hard to unite her fractured party while promoting a team of state-educated women to her cabinet, giving them equal place alongside the men, what’s occurring over in the Labour ranks?

Oh yes, Angela Eagle has been threatened with death. Her crime? She challenged Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership because she says he’s made the party unelectable. Angela says she wants the working classes to have a voice and to be ­represented by a strong opposition so that they have someone looking out for them.

And for saying that she has been abused and intimidated in the most hideous ways by thugs acting in Corbyn’s name. She has been called a “treacherous lesbian” and branded “as charismatic as herpes”. She’s had a brick thrown through her Liverpool constituency office window, where her terrified staff have had to unplug the phones because the abuse was so obscene.

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And then there’s Luciana Berger, who also resigned from Corbyn’s shadow cabinet. She was allegedly told she was going to “get it just like Jo Cox did” and was sent a photo of a kitchen knife and warned: “Watch your back, Jewish scum.”

Other opponents of Corbyn have been bullied, threatened and abused. Party official Johanna Baxter was sobbing as she told how she and other NEC members were threatened at a meeting to decide whether Corbyn should have an automatic right to be on the leadership ballot.

And THIS is what the once great Labour Party has become – a hate-filled, violent, lunatic fringe where members who disagree with the hardliners are abused, threatened and intimidated into silence.

In the old days, these militants would be happy to see women like Eagle sent to the gulag and tortured. Today she is tortured on social media by bully boys who believe they’re acting in Corbyn’s name. And what does this supposed man of principle do when women in his party are being threatened with death for challenging him? B*gger all, that’s what! When there’s a TV camera in his face he meekly condemns it and says it’s awful.

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When pressed, his buddy John McDonnell says the same. But neither of them do anything to stop it. Why aren’t they standing shoulder to shoulder with these frightened women?

Why aren’t they denouncing the thugs, making it clear there’s no place for them in the party? But they won’t do that. Because they don’t really believe in the democracy they keep shouting about.

They believe in allegiance to the cause – at any cost. Even if that means ignoring the abuse of women. Which makes them scumbags and cowards who do nothing while their thuggish supporters terrify dissenters into submission.

The big joke here is that Corbyn is the one who told us he would make politics kinder. “Kinder politics, a more caring society. These are the values I was elected on,” he said 10 months ago.

And just look what his leadership has done to those values and to the party. Labour, under him, is finished and its politics have never been more vile, more ugly, more hate-filled and more divisive. No Corbyn rally is complete without violence or the threat of it. Anyone who disagrees with the great leader is shouted down as a “ f***ing Tory” or a traitor.

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Our great Labour Party used to be one where socialism was achieved through ­parliamentarianism, through democracy.

Under Corbyn, we’re following the Lenin model – where it’s created through ­revolution, intimidation and violence. This kind of socialism doesn’t believe in democracy. And it forces women to live under police protection.

The tragedy here is no matter what Corbyn’s policies are, no matter what he says he wants for the poor and the disenfranchised, no matter how noble his intentions might be, no one is ever going to listen to him while his supporters are threatening to murder women.