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To: Owen Smith MP

Owen Smith - Withdraw your leadership challenge and get behind Jeremy!

It's all over. You can't win. The coup has failed. Stop wasting all the time, energy and goodwill of Labour members and end this little squabble now. If you support the policies of Jeremy Corbyn, then get behind him. Lead the charge back to the shadow cabinet where you belong, fighting alongside Jeremy Corbyn for fairness, decency and honest politics - and an end to austerity and cuts to the most vulnerable.

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Why is this important?

Now that the courts have ruled in favour of keeping Corbyn on the ballot, there is nothing to prevent him from winning another landslide victory. He is miles ahead in the polls, he has the support of a vast majority of trade unions and Constituency Labour Parties, and he remains hugely popular among Labour Party members. Let's not waste the next six weeks fighting a pointless internal battle when we should be getting on with the job of being The Opposition and uniting the party behind our elected Leader.

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Updates

2016-08-03 14:19:57 +0100

This petition now has 2,209 signatures and is being sent to Owen Smith. Feel free to continue signing it, but what would be even better at this point is to copy the above text (or write your own) into an email and send it directly to Owen at [email protected] so he knows how you feel!

2016-07-29 17:27:05 +0100

OK, so we've got a thousand signatures for this. Any suggestions on how to scale up to 10,000 or ideally 100,000? Has everyone who's signed up to this passed it on to all their networks? If everybody posts it on their Facebook page/Twitter account etc saying 'I've signed this, won't you' - maybe we could really get somewhere!

2016-07-29 17:23:00 +0100

1,000 signatures reached

2016-07-29 12:01:42 +0100

Thanks to everyone who has signed so far! We are approaching 1,000 signatures already. Please continue to pass this along to all your friends and colleagues...

2016-07-28 23:27:39 +0100

500 signatures reached

2016-07-28 18:01:38 +0100

100 signatures reached

2016-07-28 17:40:55 +0100

50 signatures reached

2016-07-28 17:40:40 +0100

50 signatures in the first half hour, not bad! Let's keep going...

2016-07-28 17:31:25 +0100

25 signatures reached

2016-07-28 17:19:41 +0100

10 signatures reached