Labour Party leadership election 2015

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59.5% for Corbyn, should be enough that his legitimacy can't credibly be questioned.

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A nice mix of factions and personalities for the Shadow Cabinet; in all, I'd say pretty strong choices for the most.

McDonnell will be the largest source of target and in reference to the above posts here is a section of the BBC's profile on the new shadow Chancellor:

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Even if he has decent ideas those quotes are always going to come back to haunt him.  He just has too much baggage for such a high profile role.

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McDonnell is a... um... potential... weak spot, but then he was always going to get a big post, like it or not. Though the trouble with him isn't quite what people think: it isn't that he's got extreme views on some things, that's not exactly it...

Anyway, Healey at housing is good, and a vegan and animal rights campaigner at Environment is excellent trolling of the NFU.

Apart from McDonnell it's not that bad, especially given the number of high profile people who opted out.

Corbyn needs to get a media strategy beyond "you're all evil".  Undoubtably some of them are, but it's not clear that he's distinguishing them from the rest at the moment.