Corbyn (& sidekick McDonnell) is a complete disaster zone. I give you:
- Failure to appoint a single woman to the top three jobs in the shadow cabinet
- Appointing John McDonnell as shadow chancellor
- Not singing the national anthem at the Battle of Britain service
- Not knowing whether to join the privy council
- The DJ phone-in at PMQs
- Appointing Seamus Milne as communications director
- Appointing Andrew Fisher who wanted people to vote for class war
- Lifting half his conference speech from a speechwriter who had sent the same speech to each leader since Keir Hardie (almost)
- Old footage of Corbyn saying the killing of Bin Laden was a tragedy
- Corbyn saying that British born IS fighters should be arrested rather than targeted in Syria
- Corbyn saying he would not use shoot-to-kill even after the Paris attacks
- Appointing Ken Livingstone as joint chair of the review into Trident
- Keeping Ken Livingstone as joint chair when Ken had insulted the mental faculties of a defence shadow spokesman who suffers from depression
- John McDonnell's citing Chairman Mao during the response to the Autumn statement
- Publishing a letter statement he would not agree to bombing Syria, whilst in a meeting with the PLP saying that they would take the weekend to consider the matter
I'm sure there's a few more...
I feel sorry for the moderates in Labour, they are watching their party being driven to the left, taken for a ride to obscurity, whilst being pummelled daily by the cyber-corbynites.
All the while the shadow cabinet cannot claim to have a policy. Any policy. Whatever. Would they have more or less borrowing? Are they in favour of Trident or not? Would they bomb Syria or not? These are really important issues and the party is a laughing stock with no particular position.
It is embarrassing listening to their front bench spokesman trying to contort themselves through various positions. Even the shadow foreign spokesman says that he cannot speak for Corbyn! If he can't, then what is supposed to be collective responsibility?
It's a complete joke. A mess. A car-crash.
From across the aisle of British politics, it's entertaining, but it means that the Government is not being held to account and that's bad for democracy.
Squiffy.
