The thing is PMQ is not reflective of the bulk of parliamentary business, it is an hour of pantomime once a week, serious government decisions are not made on the back of it. It's more like the annual shareholders meeting of a big company where the chairman and CEO spout corporate bollox and beat their chests about how macho they've been/plan to be cutting costs or sticking it to the competition. At those public meetings the execs have to present a macho super confident front for fear the business press and institutional investors present will view them as hesitant or unclear.

Institutional investors do not attend shareholders meetings. They know its corporate bollox. They have separate briefing sessions with the company.

PMQs is probably a bit more important because its one of the ways that the public form a view on the competence of the PM and Leader of the Opposition. IDS never recovered from his terrible performances at PMQs. But the public form their opinion based on the soundbites shown on the evening news. Not on the intellectual superiority of the arguments.

Have you been licking batteries again?

If you bothered to actually read my original post, you may comprehend that I was offering a view on the then declared candidates (excludes Corbyn). It was not a declaration of whom I would vote for. I am both surprised and delighted that Kendall has not managed to con anyone with her tory-lite policies. Shows her leadership qualities up for what they are.

Resort to smelly fish insult once more.

"I'd go for Kendall" - not much ambiguity there.

If you have changed your mind why don't you just say, no big deal.

Look barmpot, it's a bit like me saying "I'll go for Hull KR" before Sunday's game. As I lifelong Hull FC supporter, would you also assume I'd suddenly switched allegience?

I smell a wriggling slippery fish. Flip flopping all over the plaice. To get caught changing from the Starboard wing candidate to a far Port is a whale of an about turn. We shouldn't skate over the fact that you've been caught in a storm and your "OPINION" has sunk to new depths. Is the "tip" you speak of in reality an iceberg!

The only person I know who regularly managed to misspell the word bUffoon was Standee but I understand he's been banned from these here boards

I see you managed to misspell allegiAnce ......does this make you Standee?

Tell the crash team not to bother. This thread is smoked.

Looks like all of the momentum is behind Corbyn. The other candidates seem to have given up.

The worst outcome for Labour would be a narrow defeat for Corbyn. It would be open warfare up to the next election. At least if he gets the job it will prove once and for all whether the hard left is electable.

If you seriously believe that Corbyn is "hard left", then you're either away with the fairies or it shows just how far, since Blair, that Labour have moved to the right