Deselect These Labour MP's

Its reported that the following Labour MP's abstained on Yvette Cooper's amendment to extend Article 50, which had been backed, though only at the last minute, by Corbyn and the Labour front bench.

• Tracy Brabin
  
• Judith Cummins
  
• Gloria De Piero
  
• Yvonne Fovargue
  
• Mike Kane
  
• Emma Lewell-Buck
  
• Jim McMahon
  
• Melanie Onn
  
• Ruth Smeeth
  
• John Spellar
  
• Stephen Twigg. 

The following Labour MP's are reported as having voted against the Cooper Amendment, and with the Tory government.

• Iain Austin.
  
• Sir Kevin Barron.
  
• Ronnie Campbell.
  
• Rosie Cooper.
  
• Jim Fitzpatrick.
  
• Caroline Flint.
  
• Roger Godsiff.
  
• Stephen Hepburn.
  
• Kate Hoey.
  
• John Mann.
  
• Denis Skinner.
  
• Laura Smith.
  
• Gareth Snell.
  
• Graham Stringer.

These Labour MP's are also reported to have voted for the Brady Amendment, backed by the government, which essentially throws the Good Friday Agreement under a bus, by telling May to scrap the backstop, and to reopen negotiations, based on some unknown fantasy alternative.

• Ian Austin
  
• Sir Kevin Barron
  
• Jim Fitzpatrick
  
• Roger Godsiff
  
• Kate Hoey
  
• John Mann
  
• Graham Stringer.

Unless any MP's that abstained had a good reason for doing so, such as being ill, they should be treated as scabs the same same as those that voted with the Tory government. By their actions they not only acted to keep this reactionary Tory government in office, they also lined up with the Tory paleo-right of Rees-Mogg and Co, to support what can only result in a No Deal Brexit. Any Brexit is a serious economic and political attack on the working-class, and those that back it should be branded with infamy accordingly. Those that line up with the hard right in promoting a No Deal Brexit, should have no place as Labour MP's.

90% of LP members oppose Brexit, as do around 75% of Labour voters. Labour MP's that lined up with the Tory government, and with the Tory hard right, are either pursuing their own reactionary nationalist ideological agenda similar to that being pursued by the Communist Party of Britain, of whom some are fellow travellers, or else they are simply pursuing their own reactionary attitude to immigration, or cowardly appeasing of the bigoted views of electors in their constituencies – many of whom will not vote Labour anyway – in the misguided belief that by doing so they might garner a few additional votes. In other words, in the worst tradition of bourgeois politics they put their interest in holding on to their seat and the cushy job that comes with it, above any pretence of holding to basic socialist principles.

The members in the CLP's of these MP's should begin immediately to deselect these MP's that lined up with the Tories in pursuance of reactionary goals. But, that should be only the start, we also need to begin replacing all of the Blair-right and soft left MP's too. They may have a more progressive position on Brexit than these reactionary nationalists, currently, but it is their past political activity that created the conditions under which Brexit became possible, and in which racist and other bigoted ideas were not fundamentally challenged.

We need to start to deselect MP's to make them directly accountable, on a day to day basis, to members, and thereby to put in place MP's, Councillors, and candidates that reflects the current LP membership, and its youthful, dynamic, outward looking, international socialist agenda.