JEREMY Corbyn is presiding over an exodus of Labour loyalists ripping up their membership cards, we can reveal.
The party leader was confronted at a meeting this week over claims 60,000 members had walked away from the movement.
Disillusioned members are leaving over his lack of clarity over Brexit, the anti-Semitism row and his response to the Russian attack in Salisbury, his MPs say.
Senior figures within the Parliamentary party have voiced their grave concerns as long-standing supporters “throw in the towel”.
Mr Corbyn was asked for answers by backbencher Neil Coyle over why vast swathes of activists were leaving at a meeting in the House of Commons.
Another MP told The Sun on Sunday that the number of members leaving could end up being “as high as 100,000”.
It follows a report last October by the then members’ representative on the party’s ruling executive that the party had 550,000 members with 50,000 in arrears with their subscriptions.
One Labour MP last night said: “Members are just walking away because there isn’t any clarity on Brexit from the leader.
“They issues of anti-Semitism and how he handled the Sailsbury novichok attack by not laying blame on Russia has also seeped through as major reasons.”
One of the party’s MEPs, Julie Ward said this week: “Labour risks losing millions of supporters if it supports some form of compromise deal or fails to order MPs to oppose Brexit.
“Simply put, Labour could face a mass exodus of members and activists, which would be catastrophic for the mass grassroots movement that Jeremy Corbyn has built up since becoming leader in 2015.”
Labour MPs dotted around the country have pointed to huge walk-outs from constituency parties over the past year.
Plan pure Caracas
LABOUR has drawn up plans for a post-Brexit customs union based on one used in Jeremy Corbyn’s beloved Venezuela — whose capital is Caracas.
The Labour leader wants to mimic South America’s highly-criticised Mercosur deal which includes Argentina.
It has been dubbed “the most isolated and protectionist bloc in the world”.
Shadow trade secretary Barry Gardiner told Sky News Labour would have a union “just like it”.
Two MPs have told how about 250 members have left the party in the past twelve months.
One MP said: “Those who joined with plenty of enthusiasm in 2016 and 2017 just aren’t staying on. It’s got to the stage where we have to try and beg them to stay.
“There is no evidence to suggest he has lost majority support amongst the members, some people are just electrified by him.
“Look how he was greeted when he arrived in Hastings on Thursday after losing the No Confidence vote in the government in the Commons.
“But for others, they find it all bewildering and they no longer want to go out and knock on doors for him.”
BREXIT ROW
The party policy is to keep all options on the table if the party can’t seek a general election including a second vote.
But his reluctance to commit to another referendum so close to Brexit day is costing him with some members.
After he beat Owen Smith in his second leadership contest in 2016 he vowed to give more power to members.
He said: “The participation is even higher, and my majority is bigger, and the mandate is very strong. So let’s use it to reach out.
The Sun On Sunday Says
THERESA May has endured the worst week of her political career.
But Jeremy Corbyn has contrived to have an even more disastrous one.
His cack-handed leadership has so dismayed Labour members that they are deserting the party in droves.
More than 60,000 loyalists have torn up their membership cards since Labour’s high-water mark at the 2017 election, and that could rise to 100,000.
They were already disillusioned by his inability to quell the anti-Semitism row and his failure to condemn Putin over the Salisbury poisonings. His decision to duck Brexit talks with the PM is the latest calamitous misjudgment to leave his party reeling.
A new poll in today’s Sun on Sunday reveals 65 per cent of voters, a large proportion of them Labour supporters, believe he was barmy to snub Mrs May’s offer.
It is further damning evidence that he is out of step with his own grass roots and rapidly losing their confidence.
One Corbynista ally is now proposing a customs union with the EU based on a model introduced by Venezuela.
The South American country was idolised by half-baked Marxists like Corbyn when it was run by hard-left poster-boy Hugo Chavez.
But largely thanks to Chavez it is now an economic basket case.
Not unlike Labour under Corbyn.
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“With this huge membership, that has to be reflected much more in decision-making in the party.”
But Labour MP Chris Leslie said: “The enthusiasm of members is noticeably less, there is a dent amongst the ardent followers.
“Given that 86 per cent of Labour members want a new vote on EU membership there will be a price to pay.”
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