So. Who will be the media’s Remembrance Day whipping boy this year?

[BertrandRussell]

Corbyn? For wearing the wrong coat/suit/tie/shoes/face?

Meghan-for being caught smiling at the wrong moment, or attention seeking for being seen at an event while there is speculation about her being pregnant?

Johnson? For not having his shirt tucked in?

William and/or Harry for not publicly embracing?

Kate? For something- can’t think what. Too many poppies? Wearing a headband?

Someone in the DM said that MeghAn was being punished-if she’s been “more regal” she would have been allowed on the same balcony as the queen...

She's more regal than the whole lot of those scum raking ignorant turdies put together.
Let's all pick on a woman, do let's, never mind how she feels we must get across our hatred for someone we've never met. That is their mantra
Some folks need to take a food hard look at themselves

Should be Johnson, the scruffy, clumsy, careless, slouching get. The absolute kip of him slouching towards the cenotaph. I will say Corbyn looked smart and I noticed he was singing all the songs too. His team can't afford any more shambles like the last few years I suppose. Swinson was exemplary and even carried off stepping down backwards from the plinth perfectly. Nothing wrong with MM either, who carried off the solemn-and-pensive-yet-beautiful look superbly.

The only person I've seen being criticised in the media is the little shit in Salford.

Where's all the rest coming from?

The BBC isbb BBC using footage of Johnson laying a wreath in 2016- when he didn’t lay it upside down......

They explained it was an error due to edited footage. But the last bit of the BBC news article I saw explaining it makes me absolutely despair:

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also came under criticism from some who felt he did not bow deeply enough.

Jesus Christ.

“ They explained it was an error due to edited footage”
Plenty of people in “the business” appear to find this implausible.....

The “not bowing low enough” is on a par with “Meghan’s disrespectful false eyelashes” ...... [despair emoticon]

Stella McCartney for advertising the coat MM was wearing.

Stella is so tacky and disrespectful.

Radio 4 reporting directly on events yesterday morning made the point that JC gave 'only a slight inclination of the head'. Nobody else had their bowing technique scrutinised.

Absolutely outrageous to be using old footage to cover Johnson's mistakes.

I didn’t find fault at all with Corbyn’s behaviour yesterday when I was watching the Service live. Plenty of slight wobbles and mistimed movements, but nothing at all that could indicate any ‘disrespect me from anyone.

It’s bizzare. There’s plenty to criticise Corbyn for - trying to catch him out for bowing wrong is just completely weird. And in my opinion, those trying to use the Cenotaph to score cheap political points are being WAY more disrespectful!

And how in the everloving fuck can eyelashes be disrespectful?!?

If I was going to pick out a politician it would be Johnson, with his usual ability to keep still and preternatural scruffiness. But I was only looking because I knew the press would be after Corbyn.

boris looked a mess. he couldn't even stand still in the silence.

I do sometimes wonder if he is not quite NT- the inability to keep still even at times like that is a bit hard to explain otherwise.

Sorry?

I was a bit surprised at Boris. I thought he w would tone down the buffoon act a few notches to avoid being headlines.
Thought he would have smartened up out of respect.

He knows they will be getting another five years.
You can get rid of a few disabled/ homeless/ poor people in five years.

Yes Boris looking around during the silence bothered me - at such a high profile event, it really shouldn’t be difficult to look solemn for 2 mins. You know the bugles will play when it’s time to finish so why the glancing around?

Either he doesn’t care. Or he can’t. Or both.
I mean, as usual it’s hardly been mentioned- unlike Corbyn’s perfectly bow-like bow, so he actually doesn’t have to care. Gaffes don’t stick to Tories.

If I was Jeremy Corbyn and critised for not bowing low enough,next time I was required to bow I'd get a huge Elizabethan hat and whip it off whilst bowing with a massive theatrical flourish.

But honestly, the right wing press will look for anything. Better a respectful nod of the head than the crazy 'warrior pose' curtsey Theresa May used to go in for whenever she spotted a member of the royal family.

I guess bowing was only introduced at that ceremony because people not in the military felt awkward on what to do after they laid the wreath?

The military salute; which works well (and I was in floods of tears watching the veterans on their march struggle out of their wheelchairs so they could march past and salute).

Surely “bowing” isn’t really a thing outside of this one context so there isn’t really a “correct” way of doing it?

Hell, there isn’t even one way of saluting - the Navy salute differently to the Army and RAF.

you dont even really have to be in the business to know its horseshit. You have to physically go and fetch archive footage.

They thought they could get away with it, after all L Kuensberg has been doing it for year.

Dont even like JC but its a fucking joke that we all know they'll be gunning for him no matter what. The press needs taking to pieces in this country.

Yes, I wondered why Boris Johnson couldn't keep still and kept looking around.

Also he seems to have a problem with doing up his jacket.

its a fucking joke that we all know they'll be gunning for him no matter what

I wish we did all know this. So many people are taken in by it and then spout whatever they have heard in their turn. There is proper hate on some peoples faces when they talk about JC.