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Originally Posted by joejoe1337
I think you're massively overthinking this. Labour don't have a women problem and (it looks like) he's got a pretty dead on 50/50 gender split in the Cabinet. Women in health, business, and education too.
I'm obviously not saying he will win, like you Bertie I'm not as down on him as others seem to be, but I don't think today will make much of a difference.
You're right I overreacted a little, most people will not know nor care who John McDonnell is and I shouldn't have forgotten that.
However, I do stand by my general point that, from a tactical standpoint, his shadow cabinet was poorly chosen.
Corbyn does have some advantages, people react well to his anti-politics image and he can attack the Tories from far more angles than a Tory-lite candidate ever could. He does, however, have to work to dull some of his sharper edges, especially on foreign policy, and look to counter - or at least mitigate - Tory attacks centring on the (ample) incendiary things he has said. Employing McDonnell - a man who has made an even greater number of stupid, incendiary things - is not the way to do that, nor will it calm those many leftists who think Corbyn is a little too extreme.
Angela Eagle would have been a much better choice, hell, even Andy Burnham - for all his countless faults (the guy is at best a 2/10 politician) - would have been a much better pick for Chancellor.