Sadiq Khan’s endorsement of Owen Smith is rather handy for the ailing Labour leadership contender, given Khan is one of the few Labour politicians who has actually won something: that something being the largest personal mandate of any politician. This enormous mandate is rather handy when Jeremy Corbyn starts waving his own huge mandate about, but it may not be attractive enough for Labour members, who largely seem besotted by the idea of Corbyn as leader.
Yesterday Labour moderates were infuriated by the Corbyn camp’s email telling Labour members that ‘they’ (a wonderful pronoun that British people use to refer variously to someone in authority who is making things difficult, the weatherman, and those in charge of roadworks) have ‘stopped me voting for Jeremy. ‘They’ in this context refers to the party’s own NEC and the British justice system, which seems a tad ludicrous, and which was dismissed as such by many other people in the Labour party.
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