Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has hit out at the “outrageous” labelling of people as Tories if they do not support Jeremy Corbyn, amid concerns the contest is getting increasingly fractious online.
The former favourite, who has been overtake by Corbyn, called for the abuse to stop and for Labour to unite and “take the fight to the real enemies who are the Conservative party”.
Except, you know.
Speaking to PoliticsHome, Burnham said: “There is a coalition of senior voices in the party – John Prescott, Neil Kinnock, Margaret Beckett – backing me, saying: ‘Think carefully before you vote and don’t make Labour a party of protest that is racked by internal divisions rather than focusing on being a proper opposition and taking on the Tories.’
“These are people who lived through the mid-80s. There’s a silent majority in the party who aren’t on social media, who will listen to what people are saying and those are the people who are receiving their ballot papers now. The risk is that Labour becomes internally focused, as we were in the mid-80s, rather than a united opposition, and that is something that people do have to think about as they open up their ballot paper. Can the party be united behind Jeremy? I think that is very difficult.”
Why can't we all just get along you pieces of shite!!!!