Jess Phillips made the news earlier this year after the Labour MP told Diane Abbott to ‘f— off’ during a meeting of the PLP. The comment came after Phillips attempted to take Jeremy Corbyn to task over the lack of women in senior roles in his shadow cabinet, only for Abbott to jump to his defence.
While Corbyn failed to intervene when the row between the two women escalated, it appears that some of his comrades are now fighting back. Jon Lansman — who helped manage Corbyn’s campaign before founding the hard-left Momentum group — has tweeted a link this morning to an article published on the Left Futures website he edits.
Corbynistas are not the new Nasty Party | by David Osland https://t.co/qxhAVsBjV4 pic.twitter.com/YBeGGy0RpV
— Jon Lansman 🟣 (@jonlansman) November 25, 2015
The article — by David Osland — is entitled ‘Corbynistas are not the new Nasty Party’ — and suggests that when compared with the right of Labour, Corbynistas are not ‘nasty’ at all.
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