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the current PLP has a loyalty to the ideology and tactics of those who put them in place.
There's about 100 new Labour MPs from the 2010 and 2015 elections, who were not put there by Blair's leadership. Most of them agree broadly with Corbyn's politics. Most of them also voted no confidence in him as leader.
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While it's a bit non-U to speak of Blairites right now, there's no surprise that the current PLP has a loyalty to the ideology and tactics of those who put them in place. The problem is that it's yesterday's ideology, and it wasn't even really an ideology to begin with. Either way, there's a time-lag between PLP and LP. The membership has evolved, and the PLP refuse to evolve with it, instead looking to disenfranchise anyone who disagrees with their views on the good old days, back in the war, using tactics that are by turns childish, vindictive, dishonest and embarrassing. Tactics even Tories wouldn't consider. Tories, ffs. PLP is fucked.