[theo_luddite]

It's my opinion that both are fairly reasonable. Let's face it, Bodgit removed many a "reasonable" or somewhat "more sensible" MP from the Tories back benches, let alone The Cabinet because they voted remain rather than leave. They are all appalling in my opinion but some at least that might have reined him in were no longer there to do it.

My two penn'orth for what it's worth is that the far left nut jobs (and there's plenty of them) that attach themselves to the likes of Corbyn, that crawl out of the woodwork just before every election and make all the easy headlines that the Torygraph and the Daily Heil for example need to stoke up their gammons and the "Red Wall" are behind his thinking. If he's, or rather they are, one less distraction to worry about that's Starmer's business. If Labour Party members don't like it they can call for a Vote of No Confidence and elect a new leader. Whilst I vote Labour when I can, I've no intention of becoming a party member. At previous Labour Leadership elections it was all so cheap and easy to become one at a moments notice and skew the results, as a few card carrying Conservatives and others can tell you.

Even if Corbyn stands as an Independent and wins - which way is he going to vote in The Commons? With Labour or with The CONservatives?