Diss of the Day: Andy Burnham

A wonderful, and presumably unintentional, diss of Andy Burnham by the BBC in this article:

Mr Balls' rival Ed Miliband now has the support of Unison and the GMB unions as well as Unite. His brother David has won the support of two unions - Community and Usdaw.

Diane Abbott is currently being supported by two unions, the Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA) and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF). The fifth candidate in the election is Andy Burnham.

Poor old Andy. He's doing so badly in this election of non-entities that the BBC can't even talk about who is supporting him. All they can do is briefly remind people that he is still running.

Let's face it, he should just drop out now, because the longer he stays in this contest, the more embarrassing it becomes. He can't say he's in it to win it - the best he can say is that he's (barely) in it. He can't claim he's laying down a marker for the future, since this campaign will not leave him as a potential candidate of the future, but rather as someone synonymous with failure.

This is the least inspiring line-up of potential leaders that I can remember in a long time, and Burnham is proving himself to be the least inspiring of those insipid candidates. Andy Burnham is a non-entity fighting to get survive in a field already clogged up by non-entities, and perhaps the most damning indictment of Burnham's campaign is the realisation that if he pulled out now, no-one would really notice he'd gone.