Op-Ed: The Labour leadership race might have opened a can of worms in British politics but events across the Pond in the USA, as would be candidates vie for the job of leader of the Republican Party, make British politics look a bastion of sanity.
The GOP, Grand Old Party, ran Mitt Romney for President in 2012 but against the odds Democrat Barack Obama won a second term in office.
That party licked its wounds, as all do in defeat, and looked toward the 2016 Presidential election. This time it is important for them to get the right candidate if they want to achieve political success but is that person Donald Trump.
Here in the UK Trump is viewed as a 'celebrity' of sorts far removed from politics.
The thought of that man having his finger on the 'button', that is having the ultimate responsibility for the USA's nuclear weapons, sends shudders down my spine for all the wrong reasons.
Perhaps if the GOP goes for Trump, yes a man with a silly name and hair to match, they will be unelectable and help the Democrats secure a new term in office.
That will in part depend who the Democrats choose as their party leader.
As a controversial character Trump is getting plenty of media publicity and in some ways in politics all publicity is good publicity.
He fits the criteria for leader of the GOP in that he has masses of wealth but is he presidential material?
Both will be for the American people to decide.
In June Dava Castillo reported at NEWTEKWORLDNEWS "Donald Trump taught money cannot buy the Apprentice" but we wonder can it buy him politics?
Right now Trump has been attacked for his words on John McCain viewed as a war hero by many but applauded by others who view McCain as a political warmonger.
"According to a new ABC News/Washington Post national poll, Trump has the support of 24 percent of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents — 11 points higher than Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (13 percent) and 12 points ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. And the real estate mogul has a substantial cushion (ranging from 16 to 21 points) on the rest of his GOP rivals, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (8 percent), Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (7 percent), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (6 percent), Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (6 percent), Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (4 percent), former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (4 percent) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (3 percent)."
But if American polls are anything like those in the UK they are not to be trusted. They have too many variables such as how many took part, who were they and did all participate seriously.
If the USA went over to the far right and elected Trump as President and the UK went over to the left and elected Jeremy Corbyn as PM we would be in for some strange and maybe interesting times.
Those who say neither are going to happen are probably true but in politics anything goes.