John McDonnell: Failure

I think we should all take a moment to consider John McDonnell, who has withdrawn from the Labour leadership race the battle to get onto the ballot for the Labour leadership election. In particular, I think we should consider just how shit he is.

He ran against Gordon Brown back in 2007. Actually, sorry, that's not true. He tried to run against Gordon Brown in 2007 but he was so shit that he couldn't even get on the ballot paper back then either. Even though another left-wing candidate dropped out of the race in order to help him.

And now he's failed to get on the ballot paper once again. He's dropped out of the contest to allow Diane Abbot to get on the ballot paper - even though the evidence would seem to suggest that even if all of his supporters back Abbot, she still wouldn't get on the ballot paper*...

In short, it is difficult to conclude anything other than that McDonnell's campaigns for the Labour leadership were at best optimistic, and at worst just a total waste of time.

*According to the Labour party, Abbott has 11 nominations, McDonnell (according to the BBC) had 16. So the most McDonnell's supporters could give Abbott is to raise her total to 27 nominations - meaning that if she does make it through, it will only have been in part due to McDonnell dropping out.