No to the Miliblair twins.
No to Balls-that-once-were-Brown.
No to 'Don't look at me, I'm no racist' Burnham.
Yes to socialist leadership for a socialist party.

Does Diane Abbott help matters? Not if she splits the left MPs, thus preventing both herself and John McDonnell from getting onto the ballot.

Indeed, you have to ask yourself whether her candidacy - which no one thinks will leave Abbott as party leader - is actually designed to stymie McDonnell, thereby making sure his name does not appear on the ballot as a left-wing alternative to the No-Labour and Next-No-Labour candidates.

I'd like to see Hilary Benn MP throw his hat into the ring. An excellent constituency MP for Leeds, Hilary made his ministerial mark in international development. I for one would throw my support behind HB.

Dear Mervyn Drage -
The very last thing that The Labour movement needs is "Marxist-Lenninist education". As someone who is a recivering Lenninist, and had generations of my family in the old CPGB, could I just ask, when will you learn?
Whilst the Marxist critique of capitalism has a lot going for it, and Marxian Historiography much to admire, every single application of your creed has led to slaughter, oppression and torture. Not least for the workers.
As the origional Clem the Gem said: "Soviet Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine The Great".
As for Dianne, I am all for her standing, and for a left vote that is as high as possible. Please dont forget the other positions up for grabs, like treasurer - a key post within the Party when it comes to re-building our strength.
The left will never control the Labour Party entirely, but at this time, our voice should be heard, after all, it wasnt us who started all the backstabbing and infighting, was it?

Have you ever seen her on the TV with Portillo? Usually just giggling and simpering at his side on the sofa and rarely anything intelligent to say to warrant her about £1k appearance fee. The sooner they get someone to replace her to present a serious socialist commentary the better.

Much as I cringed to hear her kid was in private school, I know she does a lot of good stuff and if she was leader, I'd vote Labour for the second time ever (Green except 97, sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry).

Dear Clem the Gem,

That is absolute nonsense my dear boy

I'd ike to see someone like Bob crow or Mark Serwotka

or Jeremy Corbyn ,seeing as how he's a labour party member/mp (not sure about the other 2)Any they have to be firebrands and lefty to the max

oh and it's very difficult to sign off with out saying aah you're a effing jerk

The fact that Diane Abbott is more than 10 years older than her Labour leader hopefuls and also Cameron and Clegg, whom she'll be competing against in the next election if she wins the leadership, is a negative point, unfortunately. It'll be too easy to portray her as not being as energetic and vibrant etc as the males.

I really think Harriet should make way as Deputy Leader for a younger woman like Dianne. I see Dianne as a Prescott Figure, stirring the troops into battle and keeping the Party together by sheer physical force of personality and bluster. The Labour Party needs a bruiser, and I think we've found one. She'll also be able to throw in some left wing ideas into the debate.

I think you will find that the first BME MP was not elected in 1987 but in fact in 1892. His name was Dadabhai Naoroji and was elected as the MP for Finsbury Central. Get your facts straight.

Hi Mehdi
I think Caroline Flint and Lucuana B would be my other choices as they seems to be good women too.
Well I take my hat off to Diane for making that commitment to show diverse Laborites, multicultural families and young people who wants to get in to politics in UK that education hard work and commitment deliver good public servants. It is ok to go to Oxford! It is ok to go Cambridge! It is ok to go to a private school. Those things were called as virus by some just to keep working class at a bay. You can go to some of those prestige institution and still delver good public services you don’t’ have to be selling your soul just because you been to public schools or good universities. Most of the common wealth leaders come from those prestigious universities and they are doing fine !
She also lay the message to young people that carrier choice is not only be limited only be a footballer, musician or doctor, Lawyer or Gangster Raps star and the to be in a video to make it in to the future! To be able to make decent living and have the recognition you can also be a politician and topnotch one!
The politically dissolute men and women who are those we met during the campaign trail, the men and women I met during the Barking and Dagenham campaign, the men and women I met in Stoke, he told me that they do not think that they can break the glass ceiling, Well this is a clear message that Game On! That’s the mantra you keep hearing can be broken. The chain links have been broken. She gives us the message of hope! Trust in politics again that we can be trusted!
That is that if you keep up at your work, work hard and be smart you can make the changes you want to make. It is not about wining it is about taking part playing your role as a inspirational leader. I also think that she is saving the Labour PLP women and our memberships.
Most of the great women one I admired Hillary Armstrong, Estelle Morris gave up during the BlairBrown period. Choose! Then having woman DPM and Brow as PM we didn’t get enough BAME candidates as they promised! Within winnable seats, it is all gone white 40's something Oxbridge men and women who have naked ambition to be an MP. I also noticed that on leadership was a coronation the women decided not to contest. Perhaps they lost in the system with many men who would have been better leaders!
Some of them didn’t act on time! They kept everyone who was on the top table happy with trigger happy consciousness by not rocking the boat. Indecisive! Results are that we back on the opposition bench with 29% vote after been in the power for 13 years! I like d the way Caroline tried so hard to fit in and in the end gave it up with dignity. So she should have been my other preferential candidate but she is not taken up the chance.

Therefore Labor failed to produce good caliber women to take on. However good on Diane and it is about time you become a serious politician do the thing you are born to do!

It's a pity that Ken Livingstone is no longer a MP as he'd be a very good candidatee. I second the comment about Jeremy Corbyn, a great MP, but with Dianne and John Mc in the race we've possibly got enough lefties. Hilary Benn is another good shout but he performed badly in the deputy leadership race probably because he foolishly continued to support the Iraq invasion. The most important thing now is that either Dianne or John Mc get on the ballot paper.

Lammy should put his name in the hat!

@ Trotty, I'll second that! My guess is that almost everyone else on here would as well!

Seriously, to all those who actually engage him - don't. Such a pity the NS doesn't have an account system for posters: that way they could block 'Abdul Amir Hassan'. Instead, it's up to us - just ignore him. Don't feed the troll! That's what he wants!

Diane Abbott sold her soul to that trashy politics show she fronts with Neil and Portillo. Nothing to do with gender, she just is not good enough. Please remember that Westminster remains the preserve of the white, male,middle classes. I hope some female Labour candidates step forward, however.

If the Labour Party is ever to emerge as a socialist mass based organisation fit for power and Government, it needs to eject all the highly educated pro capitalist morons and hangers on who currently dominate the party.

It needs to engage in the real lives of ordinary people and workers who are struggling to survive during the monopoly capitalist slump.

I personally think the Labour project is a lost cause after Brown and Blair turned it into a party of the ruling class and bankers; they turned it into a party of mass unemployment and imperialist wars.

They got rid of Clause 4 and turned Labour into bourgeois liberal outfit.

We should campaign hard for the trade unions to finally ditch the Labour traitors and supporters of the system.

I think we need to work from the grass roots and re establish a strong, disciplined Marxist Leninist Communist Party in Britain.

We need to ditch Labour, Trotskyism and revisionism in our struggle for socialism and power of state for the workers.

We need a Soviet Britain not a liberal, weak British Road to Socialism.

We need to make the Morning Star an attractive newspaper for the oppressed and the workers.

At the moment the Morning Star is dominated by the CPB clique made up of comfortable trade union officials and teachers.

Very few oppressed people or workers read the rag at present.

We need Marxist Leninist political education, dialectical and historical materialism, democratic centralism and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Placed in a contemporary context in the struggle against US and British imperialism, Zionism and monopoly finance capitalism.

In international affairs we should support Cuba, the DPRK and all anti imperialist countries such as Iran, Brazil and Venezualia.

We need to challenge the anti communist, anti worker lies and propaganda of the bourgeois mass media including the BBC which is the organ of the establishment.

In education we need to kick out liberalism and idealist concepts, and introduce dialectical and historical materialism.