According to The Guardian, “[Harriet Harman] has written to every Labour MP with the names of people in their constituency who have signed up as party members or registered as supporters since the election.” She “wants the MPs to report any of the new members or registered supporters who are members of other parties or are known troublemakers.”

Well, I’ve signed up as a supporter. I’m not a member of any other political party. I am, however, a known trouble-maker (ask my MP, Alan Johnson, who is, by the way, a known supporter of Yvette Cooper).

But Harriet is missing something important in all her talk of Labour under Jeremy being unelectable. The same Guardian story tells us: “Figures show that 20,000 new members and a further 21,000 registered supporters have signed up since nominations for the leadership closed.” If, as she seems to be implying, those thousands are Corbyn supporters, this surely means that Jeremy himself is very electable. These figures seem to show a kind of surge away from “they’re-all-the-same-ism” to a hope that Jeremy might not be an “all-the-same” person. Don’t you want an electable leader, Harriet?

Anyway, I invite Alan Johnson to check my credentials, revisit my emails, and send the results to Harriet. She will find that I was against (for example) all the wars since the Falklands, whether they were Tory wars or Labour wars; that I am against the jailing of asylum seekers (and their children), whether under Labour, Coalition or the present Tory government; against letting migrants drown in the Mediterranean or dogs being set on them in Calais; against the Welfare Bill; against austerity, either heavy or lite; and against the economic crisis being paid for by the poor rather than the bloated geniuses who caused it.

Go, Jeremy!

Here’s the Guardian article: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/04/labour-must-end-the-madness-over-jeremy-corbyn-says-alan-johnson?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2