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Why I had to leave Corbyn’s dysfunctional shadow cabinet
Not me! But Heidi Alexander the former Shadow Health Secretary, who really lets rip at Corbyn's style of leadership...
The leader of the opposition must be willing to engage, take difficult decisions and know their own mind. The absence of these qualities forced me to resign...
I hated being a member of Jeremy’s shadow cabinet – because it was entirely dysfunctional.
It wasn’t good enough for the leader to routinely defer to his shadow chancellor when confronted with a difficult decision – a shadow chancellor who on three separate occasions undermined my efforts to agree collective positions on health matters.
It wasn’t good enough for the leader to say one thing to me, only for his political secretary to phone a day later and say: “He may have said that, but I know what he really thinks.”
It wasn’t good enough for the leader to read his position from a typed up script at shadow cabinet meetings discussing the prospect of military action against Isis in Syria or the EU referendum.
And it wasn’t good enough that whenever he appeared on TV, his description of a process, or his analysis of a problem, ended in confusion or despair on the party’s position – article 50, counterterrorism, “7.5 out of 10” on Brexit.
I wasn’t part of a plot. I wasn’t part of a coup. I had tried hard to make it work. A leader who had been willing to engage, support and take difficult decisions, and had been able to build a team, might have made it work. But we didn’t have one.
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Why would she start now?
I was horrified when I read her account especially at McDonnell acting as Corbyn's mouth piece.
McDonnell is shifty. I don't know why the media haven't gone on the attack regarding him, yet. Maybe they are saving it for the GE.
Personal gain and money making appears to be their sole motivation. Effing hypocrites.
He'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
All from the same hymn book in his broad church
I don't know if you heard about the vote of no confidence but almost all Labour MPs want Corbyn out. It's only the Tory MPs who want him to stay
Have they all paid to vote though??