but only because she and Michael Portillo work so well together on the BBC politics show 'This Week' that I would miss their banter.

Apart from that I don't really care who becomes Labour leader, just so long as they remain out of government. I had quite a titter at Alistair Darling on The Today Show this morning when he claimed that the Tories/LibDems are already trying to hide their incompetence by blaming Britain's economic crisis on Labour. Umm ...

DIANNE ABBOT is my FAVE !!!

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CAMBRIDGE graduate and at 57 has enough life experience and media experience to get rid of the New Labour crap which has destroyed the party.

She is genuine and has worked with the poorest yet has grown up with a Cambridge education.

This gives her BALANCE which is sorely needed in politics.

I dislike the MILLIPEDE brothers and ED BALLS is OK but maybe lacking in substance....

So it is DIANNE for me - about time we had a WOMAN leading a party again and why not someone who is not horribly WHITE !!!! to reflect this land we live in and its new identity.

I like Diane (one N surely) and she'd be my choice too.

Me too! At last a personality! (Rival candidate Andy 'Captain Scarlet' Burnham, an Everton supporter, showed all the imagination of a gnat today when he adapted his team's silly self-description as 'The People's Club' and called Labour 'The People's Party'. Go, Andy: with oratorical skills like that you'll be writing 'Go Compare' ads by 2012.)

How many Milibands does it take to chamnge a lightbulb?
A. One one ... but both will show up anyway.

Which Labour leader was once in a band (called "Squashed Psyche") ? (Answer tomorrow)

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Which Labour leader was once in a band (called "Squashed Psyche") ? (Answer tomorrow)

He hasn't actually been a Labour leader (yet). But I know who it is.

Come on, our David - this is your cue!

Tony Blair, of course, was in Ugly Rumours at Oxford, Harold Wilson appeared at a charity function in Huyton as guest lead singer of Gerry & the Pacemakers and Clement Attlee played marimbas in Lord Mutton's Jazz Chaps while a student at Haileybury College.

Blair should have been a rock star - that was his vocation. Why didnt you sign him JK and then you would have saved millions of lives........!!!!!!!

History.....