Jeremy Corbyn's Chilcot line about Tony Blair was good. But his "I'll cope" riposte to Chuka Umunna was priceless.
I remember Blair and his supporters when, not without cause, they took on the people who said that it was better to lose with purity than to win on the back of compromise. How times change.
There are two things to be said to those entitled MPs who "wouldn't serve" under Corbyn. First, what made you think you would have been asked?
And secondly, you won't be needing yours seats, then.
Corbyn should say that he would never have asked them, and invite them to give up their seats to people with less Olympian self-regard.
Labour holds very few seats now that it wouldn't hold under absolutely any circumstances. Would Corbyn's Labour lose Streatham, where the current majority is 13,934? Of course not.
I am still telling myself that I am a Burnham supporter, by the way. But some people need to get over themselves. Or get out. Or be got out.
Where would they go? Not to the Lib Dems, all eight of whose MPs voted against the Welfare Bill, and whose new Leader wants to scrap Trident. He also has some scores to settle. Watch that space.
Where does that leave?
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