No one would have felt any need of Jeremy Corbyn on the ballot if the previously unknown Liz Kendall had not been put there by the viscerally anti-Labour media.
The Labour Movement is itself again after the recent General Election, because there is no one else left in it. It does not like Murdoch-sponsored candidates, and it does not like queue-jumpers.
Even the Outer Right, which did not begin with Tony Blair, is no doubt annoyed at Kendall for having barged onto Andrew Neil's and Robbie Gibb's programme within a couple of days of the Election.
She was hardly their best chance. But she is now their last chance.
John Woodcock could have given it a much better go, and that without breaking any honour code that he himself will have enforced mercilessly in the NUS.
It is no wonder that he is in such a strop. He will not be the only one. Indeed, like many of you, I know for a fact that he is not the only one.
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