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?

It's a dark coloured waterproof coat, it looks smart enough for the occasion. Fair enough if he had worn red or something but really - it is a normal dark coloured, non scruffy coat.

Cannot believe that some people are more interested in the coat than in the wars that caused all these deaths. Just goes to show the complete pointlessness of all this so called remembering. Do you really think that all those millions who died in the wars would choose a black expensive coat over someone who would just not have wars in the first place? You are all stupid and have been duped by the right wing media

FFS it’s these kind of comments that make me despair. JC is a man of commitment in a world of self serving uncaring middle aged Tory yobs.
Are you really concerned about his attire ?? Is that the best you can do when the list of real issues are so obvious?
Shame on you.

It is possible to care about the occasion and look smart and appropriate!
Am surprised at all the people who equate looking smart for a solemn occasion with not caring and looking scruffy with a heart of gold. I think the opposite is the case. People who go out of their way to look different in a scruffy way mainly care about themselves and their right to self expression.
He's old enough to know better.

I'm a working class woman of roughly the same age as JC. In our circles when called upon to attend a funeral or similar one would ideally wear black, but it was/is very common not to have appropriate black attire and to choose something dark and sensible, since one couldn't afford to buy a black coat for one wearing. To me he looked like a traditional working class bloke doing his best at a solemn occasion. Which I would guess is what he wanted to look like. Whether through thorough planning or habit. And obviously that will divide the crowd.

I’m “cross” about lots of things in the world and this country that are far more important that what bloody coat he has on. Like the fact that 658,048 people relied on emergency three day food parcels between April and September this year, that there’s no money to buy books in my school, that my friend works her arse off in A&E for utterly rubbish money, 20% of UK people live in poverty including 8 million working-age adults, 4 million children and 1.9 million pensioners.... I could go on but it’s too depressing. An anoraks what you’re upset about? Get.a.life and get upset about something that actually matters ffs.

To me he looked like a traditional working class bloke doing his best at a solemn occasion.

He isn't working class.

Only in this country can this seriously be an issue...

Get.a.life and get upset about something that actually matters ffs.

Sorry I didnt realise there was a list of things you can and can't get upset about. Funnily enough I can also care about more than one thing at a time.

hdh that makes it a "costume" then!

I do love the assumption that anyone who isn't starry eyed over Corbyn must be evil and self serving and, indeed, a Tory. (Because all Tories are nasty. It's not a political view, it's an inherent evil ) Some of us, perfectly rational Labour supporters, think he is a plonker regardless of his coat! And I haven't yet boiled a small child or kicked a homeless person I to the gutter. He's a cult leader not a political leader. He will destroy the party. Eventually. Wearing a bloody man child hood.

So, a "decent coat" is a black one ? Last year it was insufficient bowing. What depths will the gutter press plumb to next year ?

It wound my mum up a treat. She despises the man. It’s not nice hearing a woman of 70 shouting the C word at the tv

I think we can be certain that if he had been invited to a Soviet public occasion he’d have researched what the Politburo members all wore and would have turned up in exactly the right clothes to fit in.

Jeremy Corbin looked quite good and certainly appropriate.
He is not a working class man but I don't think he particularly looked like one anyway, however that looks.

People obviously don't have enough to do if they are moaning about people's clothes.

Yes you are BU. He's made his name being anti-establishment and wore it because that's what he'd have worn to a friends funeral. I am more annoyed at the ones who stand there in their fancy get-up and don't even think about who or what they send to war if it helps them politically.

No get a grip. Point your anger towards Blair who was there who got us involved in an unnecessary conflict in Iraq for supposed weapons and mass distruction that didn’t exsist. Or even better why not place that anger towards evil Teresa May who sells weapons to Saudi Arabia who have caused an humanitarian crisis in Yemen! Don’t have a go at the man who speaks for the people!

Wow this is a "Famous Blue Raincoat" isn't it?

He only speaks for the people who agree with what he's saying!

He doesn't speak for me.

The people whose deaths were being commemorated wouldn’t have cared what coat somebody was wearing. I hate that petty party politics is hijacking this event.

Seriously? We have more people going hungry under this government than for God knows how many years before and certainly than under a socialist government.
We also have thousands more without a home.
Do you not bother to find out about what is actually going on now? Are you blind to the situation people who are worse off than you are experiencing?
Your comment about not being allowed this thread under socialism is too fucking ridiculous to take seriously

I'm just aghast at this post. Have you no awareness of current affairs or history?

Go and have a look at currently Socialist Venezuela. 150000% inflation. So many people fleeing the country because of lack of food it is creating conflict with Brazil, livestock being stolen from the streets by the hungry, shortages of basic goods, a big rise in the number dying and widespread malnutrition. Yes I bloody do think that is much worse than what we currently have because IT IS.

Your claim that it would be ridiculous to say that this thread wouldn't be allowed under socialism is absolutely laughable. Name me one (there have been many) Socialist state which has not repressed it's people and curtailed freedom of speech? Name me one Socialist state which has been a success? Within my own living memory people in Europe rose up in Revolution to free themselves from oppressive Socialists, memorably in East Germany. Remember them and the lovely fluffy Stasi with their listening devices in every house and apartment?

I am not wealthy, I'm slightly less than getting by. Struggling in fact and my families income is from the private sector. I know that my family would be one of the first against the wall under Socialism and suffer for the longest. It would rescue nobody and make far more poor and hungry. It has a long, long record of doing that in every country it's been used in.

Besides, the claims you make have little verifiable, quantifiable evidence aside from spittle flecked Momentum propaganda.

In fact I'm fairly certain that the best qualifications for being a socialist are being rich or stupid or being in a cushioned public sector job. Ignorant of history is the main one though.

Do you really think that all those millions who died in the wars would choose a black expensive coat over someone who would just not have wars in the first place? He has got a black coat. He wore it last year

YABU
Elderly veterans have been quoted in newspapers saying that they don't care what he looked like.
Trump didn't attend a ceremony because it was raining.

He definitely could have chosen something smarter/more appropriate. He looked really scruffy.

If I was going to dislike someone for anything or get cross with them... I don't think it would be for the colour of their coat

Some people do not wear the paper poppies because they have plastic in the middle. Also it is BLACK plastic so it cannot be recycled. Jez never scrubs up well, he is just a messy sorta bloke, I like him. He's awkward and a bit spoddy.

This is pettiness to the extreme. Really, it beggars belief.