The Labour party homepage is showing the running total of nominations for each of the highly talented individuals standing for the role of Labour leader. Currently the totals are (in the same order as the labour party show):
Diane Abbott - 0
Ed Balls - 4
Andy Burnham - 1
John McDonnell - 0
David Miliband - 19
Ed Miliband - 35
So who has loyally nominated Gordon's protoge?
Ian Austin - Gordon Brown's former Parliamentary Private Secretary
Vernon Coaker - former Minister who had to apologise for remarks that misled MPs
Jim Dobbin - MP who claimed more public funds for staff than any other MP in Greater Manchester: £99,700
Chris Leslie - the man who led Gordon Brown's uncontested campaign for leadership of the Labour Party in 2007 - How Ed Balls must wish that this contest was just as uncontested as that which his master fought.
Oddly I note that Ed Miliband has nominated himself, no false modesty there, but nobody else has nominated themselves. Does Ed Balls not think he should be Labour leader and what about his wife Yvetter Cooper, I wonder who she will plump for.
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