If there's anything
Jeremy Corbyn finds himself in right now it's in deep waters.
Currently haggling
between leadership, influence and rejection, the Labour leader is facing
condemnations all over while the party moves to ban the 130,000 new MPs voting
in its leadership election.
The party said the NEC
needed to block the new members before January 12 even if it would seem they
broke the rules doing so.
All Labour members may
have to shell out about tens of thousands of pounds to resolve the issue
immediately.
Blair ally Lord
Falconer backed the appeal against five members who crowdfunded £30,000 online,
telling the Mirror it was about making the NEC independent of the courts.
But Shadow Chancellor
John McDonnell said the appeal was undermining democracy and pointed the finger
of blame at deputy leader Tom Watson.
Labour's ruling
National Executive Committee (NEC) denied a leadership vote to anyone who
joined the party after January 12.
The decision enraged
more than 100,000 Labour members who joined in the two weeks after the EU
referendum alone.
Five of them argued
Labour's rule book doesn't give the NEC the power to lock them out of
democracy.
On Monday a High Court
judge agreed with them. He said: "In my firm judgement, the rule book
gives the NEC no such power."
