Chuka Umanna – facing out the Labour left * update

Cartoon: Andy Davey: @Cartoon4sale

Labour MP Chuka Umunna has accused leader Jeremy Corbyn of driving centre-left MPs like himself out of the party and he urged him to “call off the dogs” – hardline factions who are intent on changing selection procedures to run out moderate MPs. He said instead the party should be fighting the Tory Government over Brexit. Corbyn promised a kinder, gentler politics but appears to have opened the doors to a vicious, internal brawl instead.

Umanna, 17 October 1978, London, is an intense Sun Pluto in Libra with a determined Venus, Mars, Uranus in Scorpio; a hope-for-a-better-society Saturn square Neptune; and a Taurus Moon probably opposition Mercury in a confident and lucky square to Jupiter in Leo.

His beef is with Momentum, the grassroots, pro-Corbyn organisation founded 8 October 2015, which is exerting pressure to force the Labour Party further left.

Umanna’s relationship chart with Momentum has a power-struggle-for-the-upper-hand Jupiter square Pluto; an argumentative, chilly and suspicious Sun, Saturn, Mercury, Mars with Neptune square Saturn Sun. Not a good mix and is under continued and undermining struggles for several years ahead.

Momentum has a revolutionary Uranus opposition Sun square a controlling Pluto so an odd mix of freedom-fighting and power hungry. With a scattered Mutable T Square of publicity-attracting Neptune opposition an exuberant Mars Jupiter square Saturn in Sagittarius. Such a focal point Saturn tends to be pessimistic, overly critical, cynical; and in Sagittarius can be self-righteous about imposing its views on others. Saturn Neptune can be paranoid; Saturn Mars self-defeating or unlucky.

Both T Squares are being triggered in 16 months’ time with the Solar Arc Mars conjunct the Jupiter for an enthusiastic, crusading pitch with a might-makes-right push; and Solar Arc Pluto will at the same time square the Uranus exactly which will be a total turnaround either a change of leadership, an internal coup or a change of direction. So a critical turning point.

The chemistry between both Labour charts and Momentum suggests the Labour Party feels undermined by the organisation. The Pisces Sun on the 1900 LP chart has Momentum’s Neptune conjunct and Mom’s Saturn square; and its enthusiastic Jupiter is also squelched by Mom’s Saturn. And the 1906 LP chart has its Saturn conjunct Mom’s Neptune with Mom’s Mars in opposition so arousing great suspicion and concern. Relations between Momentum and both the Party charts are on a slide through 2019/2020 with tr Neptune square the composite Saturn on one and the composite Sun and Mars, the latter from 2019 across 2020/21.

The founder Jon Lansman, 9 July 1957, a former Tony Bennite, is a Sun Cancer with Mercury in Cancer in a vague square to Neptune; and Saturn in Sagittarius trine Uranus, Venus, Mars in Leo. He looks successful in 2021/2022 with tr Pluto trine his Jupiter in Virgo. Though with a fairly rocky ride before then.

Umanna’s relationship chart with Corbyn has a competitive composite Sun Mars; and a chilly, constantly-changing Venus, Saturn, Uranus conjunction which will jolt and jangle from next spring onwards with some feelings of relief along the way – so one way or the other they may be free of each other.