Labour Leadership 2016

I thought that was the Corbyn voter that people acknowledged did exist, the "metropolitan elite".

Agreeing to serve in someone's cabinet seems like great lengths to go to if you just want to criticise the leader. As I'm not a conspiracy theorist I'm going to assume that Lillian Greenwood genuinely wanted to do her best in his cabinet.

It sounds like it and it sounds like she was treated dreadfully, although perhaps not as bad as Thangam Debbonaire: you can't blame lack of political experience for appointing someone to your cabinet while they're undergoing treatment for cancer and not telling them, that just suggests incredibly bad judgement.

Seems to me that there's consistent evidence that Corbyn can't get the job done, that he's unfit to lead the party and unfit to lead Labour to a general election. If this wasn't so, surely he could silence his critics by being effective. The best way to prove your critics wrong is to prove them wrong: to give the speech that galvanises, to land blows against the tories, to make electoral gains. He hasn't done any of this. You can't blame the press and the PLP if NOTHING gets through ever.
(Not to be a bore but good politicians either come up with a better story that the media go for (Blair in '97) or they work around the media and reach voters (Livingstone back when he had his act together). Bad politicians blame the press (Kinnock after he fell over in the tide and shouted 'Well hey'). It's never REALLY the press).
Corbyn's supporters dismiss reality, they imagine a different world in which all evidence is the work of conspirators.
It's the same thinking as Brexit, instead of dealing with the world as it is with pesky stuff like experts and facts and the evidence of our own eyes, let's imagine a different one and go forward on that basis.