Be careful what you wish for.

So the Parliamentary Labour Party has enforced its Voter Suppression Edict. How, exactly, has that worked out for them?

Labour sees huge surge in membership
The Telegraph
7/21/16 4:25 pm BT

The huge surge in new members signing up to join Labour ahead of the party’s leadership election has stunned Westminster.

In the space of just 48 hours more than 183,000 paid the £25 fee required to become registered members with a vote in the leadership contest.

The numbers easily exceed the 112,000 who joined last summer – when subscription was just £3 – and they will clearly have a huge impact on the outcome of the election.

Conventional wisdom has it that the beneficiary will again be Jeremy Corbyn who was propelled to an overwhelming victory in last year’s contest with the support of the £3 members.

Bookmakers William Hill responded by slashing their odds of another Corbyn victory from 4/11 to 1/8.

“The odds suggest that Jeremy has an almost 90 per cent chance of retaining the Labour party leadership and we think that the price will only shorten,” said spokesman Rupert Adams.

Yes, stunned is appropriate I think. I’ll point out again that The Telegraph is kind of a New York Post analogue but at least it’s not a Quisling puppet as much of the so called left media is on this issue.

His traitorous opponents in the PLP, seeing the battle is lost, have announced a War of Attrition–

One former shadow Cabinet member said: “There will be a process of attrition. Most of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) will not serve under Jeremy. His position is untenable. The sooner he realises that, the better.” Another Labour MP said: “If we don’t win [the leadership] this year, we will do it again next year and, if necessary, the year after. At some point before the next general election, he will go. The only question is when.”

So Haig, how did that work out for you at the Somme?

Is it any wonder then that Corbyn raises the issue of de-selection (essentially Primarying Blue Dogs)?

Corbyn aides insisted that he was merely outlining Labour’s current policy, which allows local parties to trigger a reselection contest if they want their MP to face competition before being chosen to stand at a general election. But MPs claimed he was giving local activists the green light to purge MPs who refused to join his frontbench team.

At the launch of his re-election campaign, Mr Corbyn said: “At the moment, selection takes place when there is a trigger ballot system, where a constituency party decides whether or not it wishes to have a full selection process.”

Constituency boundary changes to take effect in 2020 will give many local Labour parties the chance to ditch their MP without changing Labour rules to bring in mandatory reselection – a change that some left-wing activists and the Unite union want to see. Mr Corbyn said: “The sitting MP for any substantial part of the new boundary would have an opportunity to put their name forward. So there would be a full and open selection process for every constituency Labour party throughout the whole of the UK.”

Mr Corbyn said he would offer the “hand of friendship” to the MPs who had quit the Labour frontbench but insisted the PLP must respect the result of the leadership election. “It’s the job, it’s the duty, it’s the responsibility of every Labour MP to get behind the party at that point and put it there against the Tories about the different, fairer kind of Britain that we can build together,” he said.

He insisted: “This party is going places. This party is strong. This party is capable of winning a general election.”

Later Mr Corbyn said: “It is not up to me who is a candidate or the MP in any constituency.” But he hoped there would be a process that “strengthens democracy.”

I too hope this process “strengthens democracy” and the reason I’m pro-Corbyn in it is I just don’t see a lot of “democracy” in the PLP. They seem like a lot of privileged pricks throwing a tantrum.