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I won’t lie, I am feeling slightly disillusioned with The Labour Party at the moment.

It is because of the stupid, childish, damaging behaviour from some Blairites and Corbynites.

Groups which, although they’d like to think otherwise, can be just as bad as each other.

What happens is, someone will say something that isn’t entirely in line with Corbyn policy, next thing you know, they are pounced on by the Corbynites telling them that they are traitors and not “real” Labour.

The someone responds with “I am Labour, how many elections have you won?” and then everyone gets involved and the narrative is focused on those arguments instead of the arguments we should be having with the Tories, for example, about the cuts to tax credits.

I’m not saying that Blairities shouldn’t be allowed to disagree with Corbyn, but they should justify their disagreements with actual reasons, and not just “I’m just showing him the same loyalty he showed Blair, Brown, and Miliband.”

That way, they open up the debate to make it about party policy, and not just partisan politics.

Furthermore, while the Blairites and Corbynites are arguing with each other, who is owning the narrative? The Tories.

George Osborne, in his arguments for the fiscal charter, resorted to quoting Labour MPs as part of his argument, which, to the electorate, made us look ridiculous.

Personally, I think that if you think something is a “shambles”, that’s fine, go and shout it as loud as you like at Corbyn and McDonnell, but wouldn’t it be better to shout it behind closed doors, not in public, on TV, or in the face of journalists.

It just gives the Tories ammunition with which to ridicule us from the Despatch Box.

And it means we’re not talking about the real issues, like the cuts to tax credits which will completely undermine the “security of working people” that the Tories are saying only they can deliver.

And now the Corbynites. Yes, some of you just as bad.

Proposing that MPs who don’t conform should be deselected, telling them they “aren’t labour” and the good old classic “GO AND JOIN THE TORIES!”.

Instead of spending their time condemning Labour MPs who are critical of certain aspects of Corbyn policy; perhaps they should focus all of their efforts on condemning the actual Tories, as it is them, not the Blairites, whose policy really displays a lack of morality.

Something that some Corbynites also fail to do, I’ve noticed, is acknowledge the extremely talented MPs we have that aren’t perhaps ideologically aligned with Corbyn.

They seem to think that you can only be a “proper Labour” MP and hold the Tories to account if you are perfectly in line with Corbyn policy.

There are those of course, who didn’t back Corbyn in the leadership, but are doing a commendable job of publicly supporting him and putting on a united front, setting an excellent example not only for other MPs but also for party members.

To some MPs I say this: of course you should be allowed to think that things are “f***ing shambles” and not be told you should be deselected, but it would probably be helpful if you said this in private rather than in public when it will only result in Tories quoting you from the Despatch Box to undermine our arguments and attempt to ensure that the public see Labour as weak and disunited.

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They want to argue that “If Corbyn’s own MPs don’t back him and believe in his message, how does he expect the public too?”

It would be nice if we didn’t make it so easy for them, and every bit of media coverage or airtime that is dedicated to arguments within the Party is media coverage that we could have used to expose the damage the Conservatives are doing.

To some Corbynites I say this: the Blairites are allowed to have a different opinion to you, get over it, we have fantastically talented MPs on all sides of the party who were elected by their constituencies and deserve praise for their work, and it would be an absolute disaster if they were deselected.

In the end, we all want the same thing - a Labour government in 2020.

And it’s okay for us to have disagreements about how exactly we’re going to achieve that.

But it doesn’t exactly help our cause when many people in the party seem determined to act like petulant, arguing children, putting the narrative and media focus on the Labour “civil war” when we should be making sure the narrative is on the Tories war on the working poor.

Let’s remember who the real enemy is.