Not everyone agrees with her.

Rebecca Wrong-Daily offers “full-fat Corbyn” even though we’ve already spurned it. Talk about not getting the message.

Emily Thornberry (now eliminated from the race) had become a cack-handed parody of ‘smug Hampstead socialist’, and was never going to get Union backing anyway, so she could be dismissed.

Keir Starmer (who will probably win, but watch this space) was the architect of Labour’s manifesto. His strategy on Brexit killed off any chance of Corbyn ever becoming prime minister. Why should he be suitable?

That left Lisa Nandy. I always thought she might slip through the middle, as a compromise candidate. But then she opened her mouth, signing up to allowing convicted rapists into female prisons if they ‘self-identify’ as women. See it here. 

Then she publicly supported expelling Labour members who didn’t recognise transgender rights. Here it is in the Guardian.

And finally… the icing on the cake… delivered with a flourish, dispelling the last glimmer of doubt over her total unsuitability, Ms Nandy announces she opposes the Monarchy because she’s ‘a democrat’, implying supporters of the Monarchy are not democrats. What she really means is she’s a Republican, but probably wouldn’t say it because in her universe Republicans support Donald Trump.

None of these contenders will ever get into Number 10. The Tories are in there for a decade. But in the circumstances, Kier Starmer probably looks best of a dismal bunch. It’s very sad though. The Labour Party is Her Majesty’s Official Opposition (though not in the Nandy sense) and its obsession with gender politics, diversity, and Islamophobia, all larded beneath a layer of old-school Marxism, have rendered it unelectable. The only ones laughing all the way to the polling station are Conservatives

David Challice

UKIP Head Office

Image: Richard Townshend, Official portrait of Lisa Nandy MP crop 2, CC BY 3.0