At the risk of derailing the thread, I'm not sure I'm following you there. Do you think he won't be effective at changing the current direction we're heading in? Or do you think his desired direction is somehow worse than the one of our present government? Also it's Jeremy, not James, heh. I don't get the impression he'd sit back and allow cash to be abolished without a fight, so I'm happy to see him where he is.
Sorry, I find people like him so irrelevant I can't be bothered remembering their names properly lol well he has some pretty ridiculous viewpoints on women and it's because he's very much catering to the feminists within Labour, he's advocated women only train carriages ( because of the 'epidemic' of sexual assault etc. in the country ) and he's decided instead of picking people based on their skillset and knowledge to simply allocate half of his cabinet to women.
As far as I understood, he was only testing the waters to see if the train carriage idea was viable or practical. As for the shadow cabinet choices, he couldn't do much worse than the present government; a homeopathy proponent in charge of health, a financially illiterate chancellor, a workshy hypocrite in charge of work and pensions. It's not like any of them are there on merit, so anything standing in contrast to that level of blatant cronyism is welcome by me. And, unlike a certain Prime Minister, there aren't any allegations of him inserting himself into a pig.