In Labour’s anarchic unique world,members of the shadow cabinet feel free to slap down their supposed chiefJeremy Corbyn’s first week as Labour leader hasn’t gone as planned, because it wasn’t planned. It has been authentic, or all right; authentically amateurish. For certain,even whether his debut had been sparkling, he would never own got warm reviews from his many enemies at Westminster and in the media. Whats more interesting is that even sympathisers own been taken aback by the absence of preparation for the transition and the shambles that has ensued.“A bit rough, and ” was the understated description offered by his frail friend and contentious choice as shadow chancellor,John McDonnell, when we talked to him for the interview that we publish in today’s Observer. There are quite a few examples to pick from, and but a particularly telling one was allowing journalists to eavesdrop on the unique Labour leader as he desperately tried to put together a shadow cabinet in the small hours of Monday morning. They were thus able to furnish the world with a blow-by-blow account of the chaos and calculation involved in its formation. What might own been a positive fable – the first shadow cabinet with a female majority – became yet another negative one. “Naivety,” is how Mr McDonnell explains that. Labour MPs less friendly to the Corbyn experiment own much more pungent descriptions.
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Source: theguardian.com