As I've said, the media will go for any of those five, whichever of 'em gets elected. There is no way I could ever support Nandy or Phillips. They both did their utmost to undermine Corbyn so, in my view, it's risible for them to declare now that they want to unite the party. Neither of them could unite two slices of Mother's Pride into a butty. Thornberry looks in turn smug and patronising. Starmer is Posh London Fence-Sitter. He's a slightly more leftie Blair but without the charisma. I'll go with my principles and vote for the one socialist among the five. The right-wing are scared of her and are already in attack mode. We've already seen at least one sexist attack on Becky Long-Bailey on this forum and you can bet your life we'll see lots of it everywhere in the next few weeks. I'm voting for her and that's final. And she comes from Salford like my mum and her dad worked in Salford Docks like my grandad.

Re the EU collapsing, in your dreams. That's wishful thinking by leavers who are feeling now that they did the wrong thing and they want something horrible to happen to the EU so that they'll be exonerated.