"...perhaps for Corbyn this is the most important thing of all?"

I reckon so.


"..basically you're criticising him for not being ruthless enough with his political enemies or protecting himself , and those around him, I agree, interests."


Sure and we can see the results today so it's hard to be other than judgemental. I reckon he was unused or indeed totaly incapable of working on anything other than as an individual constituency MP. Just why he stood for the position of leader is beyond me.

It's hard to believe, but he appeared to have no idea whatsoever of the nature of the party he had inhabited for so long...the cliques, groups, dynamics, alliance's of all those vying for power. Corbyn had no idea of how to build and retain the aliances necessary to maintain the position of power required to forward an agenda.