Oh the hilarity.

[Workingman]

They cannot knock him down and keep him down.

He is like one of those dolls that stand back up.

A rubber Humpty Dumpty.

A punch ball still standing long after the boxer has collapsed from exhaustion.

A spring loaded wicket.

It is, of course, Jeremy - won't last five minutes, no-hoper, waste of rations, the Blairites will see him off - Corbyn.

[Suff]

Jeremy's wobble but they won't fall down....

He'll still be standing when the party is in pieces all around him.

I can think of another figure in history like that. Arthur Scargill! Where is the NUM now?

It had around 170,000 members when Arthur Scargill first led the union, a figure which had fallen in 2015 to an active membership of around 100.

I try to think the unthinkable. It's much more fun...

[Workingman]

But you can imagine journalists in newsrooms, especially the BBC and Sky, having to report on exactly the opposite of what they had dreamed.

Jeremy Corbyn - boo, hiss, spit, froth - has won his court case against a rich and upstanding and perfectly honourable Labour donor. The Judge agreed - grrr, gnash, growl - that he was the incumbent and not a challenger - snarl, grunt, snort - and so did not need 20% of support from MPs.

[Suff]

Yep I did note the bitter twisted tone of the reports...

They hoped so much. I doubted that it would come to that as there wasn't a solid legal ground. It's more likely that the challenge to the new members being blocked will be upheld.

"Oh what a circus" is the line isn't it???

I want him to win. Then I'd like May to go to the polls around the end of the year. I want a strong and focused government to lead us out of the EU. Brexit is immediate. Sorting out the social ills and other things like yet more gay rights and more taxation can wait till we've sorted this mess out. Another 5 years of the Tories instead of 4 and it's possible that they will be their own undoing. But not, one hopes, until Corbyn is gone.

[Workingman]

I want him to win. Then I'd like May to go to the polls around the end of the year.

That will not happen. There are rumblings that with the five year term law installed by the Tories all she would get is the remainder of the current term. She already has that. Why get involved with a legal challenge and deflect from the here and now?

Brexit is a mess, and that needs sorting out, first and foremost. Time for the leavers to step up to the plate. I am hoping that they do know how to put one foot forward in that direction, but I am not convinced. They seem to be all over the place at the moment.

[Suff]

They only need a 60% vote to have a new election and there are 60% without Labour. There have to be plenty who would hope to gain from the Labour mess outside of the Tories and they might vote for it. SNP might not though given their local results.

I'm sure the Brexit team will get their act together on this in time. Remember no plan was beyond sketchy before the vote. Remain had no plan at all. We need to take 3-4 months and get it right. We also need to tell teh press to shuyt up and let them get on with it.

[Workingman]

We need to take 3-4 months and get it right. We also need to tell the press to shut up and let them get on with it.

The press only listens to itself, that's why I give the UK version a wide berth most of the time.