To still be cross at Jeremy Corbin's anorak

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It's 11 hours after the event, but at the cenotaph amongst all of the black coats stood Jeremy Corbin in a blue anorak with hood flapping, is this really the best he could do?

I'm glad he wore what he wanted to. Good on him for being practical. I don't care what he wears but what he does and says.

It's important because IT WAS A PA PROTEST.
He KNEW what he was doing.
It was attention seeking behaviour.
It showed HE wanted to stand out and be the topic of discussion rather than us focusing on the occasion.

Anyone who thinks this wasn't calculated on his behalf is completely naive.

And if he was PM, would he do the same? Show a lack of respect for the occasion because he's a pacifist?

The man's a disgrace.

So he wasn't wearing what you think he should - so what. He was there, he honoured the fallen.

For all ay of us know, there could have been fashion-plate men and women here, with huge poppies who were thinking "Christ, I wish this was over with so I can get a drink and my lunch"

There used to be the same complaints about Michael Foot. Some people just aren't interested in clothes - they have more important things to think about.

Personally the thing that I found appalling about the Remembrance Services was that bloody awful, mawkish, entertainment "service"/performance on BBC - inappropriate songs among the respectful ones - just a performance to pay lip-service to the forces; the only honest bit was the forces gathering at the end.

Meanwhile, Prince Andrew - prime parasite, currently demanding a new £60 mill royal yacht to allegedly woo foreign businesses/promote Britain abroad - sitting there with a face like a slapped arse - but then, it's not like the public money is needed for anything else, is it?

I just find it so bloody tiresome. You wear a smart black coat. You just do. The 'man of the people' charade is so painful given his personal wealth. Its like a petulant teenager.
I also find it odd that ppl are having a go at OP by bringing up May and Blair. OP didnt say she thinks they are paragons of virtue. The point is that a man who believes he could be leader of the country either cant be fucked to follow basic protocol or thought he would use the event to make a point.
Either way its so so contrived.

Some people look good in a suit, some don’t. Some exude sartorial elegance, some don’t. Julian Clary always looks good in a suit, I don’t.

However it’s the papers stirring things up - again.

Better that he turned up - Donald didn’t. Rain stopped Rememberance.

At our parade all sorts were there, those in suits, those in grey tracky bottoms. Hipster beards and trimmed moustaches. Medals and others with tattooed faces.

It was good to see everyone together.

I am no fan of Corbyn (massive understatement), but I can't get that excited about it. Yes the coat was navy rather than black, but it was a shitty rainy day and it's not as if he'd worn a bright pink puffa jacket.

I think it's an interesting view into appropriateness. Tony Blair was in black. Who dragged us into an illegal war that cost many lives and was instrumental in destabilising Iraq with no plan for 'after' leaving a gap for ISIL to fill. Theresa May was in black. Condemning war atrocities and the current situation in KSA with the murdered journalist, whilst still flogging arms to them.

But yeah, the issue is Corbyn's coat

flossietoot
Don’t see the issue. It isn’t meant to be a fashion parade. And the thousands of squaddies in the army certainly don’t come from families who all have expensive black wool smart coats, and will likely relate much more to Jeremy in his anorak than Theresa in her no doubt hundreds of pounds Italian posh coat. Get a grip.

HRTFT, and not from the UK, but I'll stick my motty in to say that it looks like a kind of inverse snobbery, and I'd be mightily pissed off if the leader of one of our political parties turned up at a ceremony to honour the war dead, wearing something that didn't fit to cultural norms, just to make a point. His point, that he wanted to make, all about him. Nobody has to wear an posh Italian that costs thousands, there are plenty of cheap black coats available - perhaps he could leave the price tag on view to demonstrate how cheap it was?

Wot she sed ^

Man wears blue coat instead of black coat.
People who already hate him find another reason to hate him.
If he was a female politician, people would criticise the choice of clothes she wears, but men are allowed to get away with it.
Oh, wait.
Pathetic.

Jeremy's anorak was far less offensive to the sensibilities than Meghan Markle's gormless smirking... just IMHO

YABU!

Do you really care more if you wear a bigger poppy? FFS. And it's not like he was wearing a cagoule with the hood up or something.

He was wearing a plain black, matt, jacket with a smart collar. No, it wasn't an expensive woollen suit coat like the Tory clones but who cares?

He's an attention seeking twat. He couldn't even be bothered to hold up his wreath properly. Yesterday wasn't the day to look different to other people.

“The 'man of the people' charade is so painful given his personal wealth”

How much is he worth, then?

Forget the anorak, Jeremy Corbyn has grubby trousers on. He looked like he'd just finished making a flat pack cabinet from IKEA.

Perhaps he had Chicago

DO you have a problem with that?

Christ there’s an awful lot of “I’m doing Remembrance the right way type of posts on MN this year.

FYI, if you’re more concerned about telling other people they’re doing it wrong you’re missing the point and are probably not very bright to boot.

Yesterday wasn't the day to look different to other people.

But he is different to those people who are standing there so 'respectfully' yet again and again leading the people of our country into conflict, showing open disdain for the average person with their political power plays. It is them, in my opinion who show no respect for the fallen, who were average citizens, not the elite protected ones.

No - it isn't about fashion.
It's about respect.

Turning out the way he did in an official role (not like the thousands who turned out across the country who weren't duty bound - didn't matter what they wore) was disrespectful. Every other person acting in an official capacity managed to dress correctly. He is either incredibly ignorant, incredibly disrespectful, or incorrectly trying to make a point (although goodness knows what that point is).

I’m not a Corbyn fan- but this really is ridiculous. And as for not holding the wreath properly and his teeny tiny poppy- words, rather uncharacteristically, fail me!

I just find it so bloody tiresome. You wear a smart black coat. You just do. The 'man of the people' charade is so painful given his personal wealth. Its like a petulant teenager.

I agree with this. And if he doesn't have a black coat, he could have borrowed or bought one. And if everyone else outside the RF is wearing a "standard-issue" poppy, then I would expect Corbyn to, too. At some level it doesn't matter, but at another it does, and I'd expect a god help us potential leader of this union to understand that there are times when your job is to fit in for an event or purpose that transcends your personal beliefs. And that knowing that some people might scrutinise him closely based on previous behaviour, he would act in an unimpeachable way, not make decisions that might be interpreted as him way of putting two fingers up.

Net worth £3-4m......but maybe he decided to give a bigger splash to WW1 charity instead of spending some of that on a half decent coat and trousers for the ocassion.

I'm far more concerned as to why May didn't go over to the commemoration services in France this weekend. Even Putin managed to go. We were conspicuous by our absence.

*how much is he worth then?'

About 3 million. He has enough spare change to buy himself a coat.

*his

No - his jacket didn't have 'a smart collar'. It had a turned inside out hood attached to the back. I'm sure it was detachable. Was he seriously going to put the hood up if it rained? Be the only one in the official party who couldn't get his head wet?

And all this guff about solidarity with the working class who couldn't afford a black overcoat. In my family, the less money you have, the more of an effort you make to dress up for a formal occasion. It's insulting to the working class to think differently.

He was representing the Labour Movement, not the Stop the War, middle class ,eternal students, never had a proper job in their lives brigade.