Someone starts a thread about a robot who wants to become Prime Minister and people who identify themselves as left of centre politically turn it into yet another Starmer/Labour bashing session. Lord knows, Labour/Starmer annoy me at times, but isn't the issue here that, for the third time in six years, the population of the UK are having a Prime Minister foisted upon them by an electorate of around 350 in the House of Commons and some 200,000 Conservative party members, who we're told are mostly old, white men living in the shires?

I won't be watching any of the leadership debates because it's not a good thing to try to get to sleep while feeling depressed, but, from what I can gather, Tugenhadt, who knows he's not got much longer in this race, was pretty honest in his opinions, so went down best with the huge majority of us who have no say in the process, Sunak sounded vaguely realistic about the situation the country finds itself in, Badinoch, as is her wont, blathered on about culture wars stuff, so would have impressed some, Mordaunt was a bit of a damp squid and Truss failed miserably in her bid to come over as a modern day Margaret Thatcher.

I've also read, albeit on Twitter, that the real winner on the night was Keir Starmer, I'm not sure about that, but I would say that the often voiced theory that Johnson's cabinet was a collection of political pygmies and the rush among the candidates, even those not in the Cabinet, to promise tax cuts rather bears that theory out - all of the realistic candidates to succeed Johnson have weaknesses.

For me, Labour/Starmer should be concentrating more on mapping out what they stand for more than continuously bashing a Government that is clapped out and can only now offer anti woke rhetoric, paranoia about their Brexit being stolen from them, Johnson type boosterism and trying to cash in on public goodwill towards Ukraine after twelve long years in power.