Corbyn's supporters have control of the constituency parties, among other things (like the NEC). If they so wish, they can deselect disobedient Labour MPs, and run approved Labour candidates against them in the next election. It's all within their power. They have all the power within the Labour party. The Labour party is entirely theirs.
It really is, the PLP can rumble a bit but they know full well there is little they can do after the last leadership election.
The party is controlled by the Corbyn wing, now it needs to show the inclination to do something with that authority, beyond consolidate power over the party further.
Well seems to me if you want a better Labour party moaning about it in a football forum aint going to do anything at all, why not take an active interest in your local party do the leg work if you think groups like momentum is taking over the party get into grass roots politics and take it back,
if you think Corbyn is wrong or the message is wrong seek to change it democratically from within.
Private Fraser dogma will achieve nothing,
Clinton lost because of voter inertia in the democrats and Clinton's complacency ,
Labour is not doing well because too many people are also doing nothing about getting the right image across to the electorate the politicians would rather take pot shots at each other than have the balls to get together to fight the government. They perpetrate the splits in the party rather than come together to appear like a solid group. The Tories are just as split on many major issues but they are disciplined enough to keep it in the shadows.
Unlike most in the Labour party I don't think Corbyn and McDonnell are positive forces for change, I don't agree with them on a fair number of policy positions, I don't trust them on the economy and I find some of their historic attitudes towards terrorist groups impossible to justify, so I would have thought I would be the last kind of person anyone would want out canvassing for Labour at present.
Labour under Corbyn has now mobilised a massive membership, I would have thought it would pretty easy to use them to build up an effective grassroots campaign, without having to call on those who clearly don't agree with the direction the party is taking.
I honestly don't care enough anymore, a clear majority of the party membership and leader seemingly doesn't give a shit about becoming a serious political party that can get into power, so I don't see why I should let it piss me off and waste much more time on worrying about it.
To put it another way, I'm pissed about the direction the country is taking but I no longer think Labour is likely to be part of the solution, in some ways its part of the problem, by hoovering up "progressive" voters in a party that isn't likely to gain power under FPTP it basically consolidates Tory power. I might feel differently if I had a good local Labour MP to get behind, but no prospect of that where I live unfortunately.
As a tiny first step, Labour needs to actually look like a party that is interested in winning power.
That will mean engaging with the media rather than running scared from them hoping that social and new media is enough to set the agenda and change minds.
It will also mean listening to voters, conversing with them rather than preaching and demonising, and also in some cases probably moderating policy positions where voters aren't easily persuadable of the rightness of the cause, I don't know whether the party actually has that flexibility anymore.
An obvious example is immigration, while Labour can certainly justify being more progressive than other parties on the issue, I don't see that coming out at present and saying that we are fine with unlimited immigration is going to acceptable to most of the county in its present mood, we need to at least appear to be listening to the concerns around that matter, and taking some kind of steps to address them and to talk openly about the issue.
Too often we seem happy to assume that it doesn't matter if our policy positions are unpopular as voters will eventually be educated to see their inherent rightness, while at the same time taking very little time to engage with the old media to actually get that message out, its a disastrous approach all round.