Only one of the remaining two PS candidates was potentially inclined to adopt his points, though she didn't make very strong case last night.

Montebourg would make a very good PM.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill

if he did that. The primary result is very flattering to him, in terms of his actual base within the PS, but does a lot of good for the image of the PS too, and he has a ministerial career in front of him. And I don't really think Mélenchon's vehicle can function with two drivers.

Mélenchon saw an opportunity to revive, or at least exploit, the Communist Party vote, given that the PC had no charismatic leaders on offer, and a heavy handicap what with not being very sexy in historical terms. He's good at that. He doesn't need Montebourg's help.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}