"...whose sitting Member is Ed Milliband." I take it that he'll not be on a Labour ticket then!

It's also my parliamentary area. He won't stand a chance. We're still electing Labour MPs on the grounds that we were once a major mining and heavy industry manufacturing area. People still vote Labour here because their parents did, and their grandparents did, and their gt grandparents did, and their... you get the idea, I'm sure.

To be honest he would be a breath of fresh air, but I don't think that he'll have the X factor to sway the older age group voter that sees him as an in yer face annoyance from the telly Dave channel.

Morddwyd

Perfectly put.

I thought he would be standing for the next London mayor.

"That's the equivalent of Tweeting 'I might have a G & T instead of a beer'."

And if he did the press would immediately pick it up as "Clarkson admits to needing strong drink".

That's what they do, that's what we pay them for.

He might be a better PM it would not be hard to beat the one that we have.