To still be cross at Jeremy Corbin's anorak

[popcornwizard]

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 not the blue/grey colour that’s the issue - it’s the fact it’s a bloody anorak!!! If it was a smart tailored sort of garment then that would be appropriate.

Barack Obama? Would he have worn a blue anorak to a formal state occasion?

It's not what someone is wearing, it's if they're showing due respect & he was. I don't see the issue tbh.

A dark blue Legoland rain poncho would have “weather appropriate” as well. No doubt you think that would have been OK.

No, I'd consider a logo inappropriate. Also a Legoland poncho really wouldn't be weather appropriate being only splash proof rather than anything else and not a coat shape so potentially hindering in the laying of the wreath.

Unlike his completely normal coat he wore.

I’m sure he could have found a plain blue poncho on Amazon - or maybe at a local sustainable cooperative’s outlet - with good rain protection and suitably free movement for wreath laying. And it would have had a hood!

Actually, if it had rained heavily do you think he would have put his hood up? After all that’s why he had a hood, surely?

Wow, 27 pages attacking a man for wearing a coat! Do normal people really get upset by these things? Maybe he doesn’t put a lot of thought into his clothes. There are still a lot of people like that.

I’m not a supporter of his but I do feel sad about the way he’s so viciously attacked for everything . For example I noticed no threads regarding the expose on UKIPs anti-semetism... I’m sure if he wore a lovely coat, he’d be accused of being a champagne socialist. His opponents are so desperate to attack him that they sound absolutely hysterical and bonkers.

I don’t like the way this country appears to be following the US trend of extreme partisanship.

iamyourequal

Quite right. I stand corrected. A member of her Majesty’s Opposition Hoping soon to be a Member of Government .....

For example I noticed no threads regarding the expose on UKIPs anti-semetism

No one is stopping you from starting one.

@missbloomsbury
ffs he’s a member of the government not a 7 year old! You can’t applaud him for ‘turning up’ like he’s a troubled teenager! If you know anything about how the Great War started, it was because of self-opinionated members of government and army generals who without a second thought, sent 880,000 young men to their deaths and for what? Basically a petulant argument between 2 royal cousins

You ve not a clue have you? corbyn isn't in the government and WW1 was not triggered by a Royal argument between Germany and Britain.

The Dukes assassination led to Serbia being attacked by Austria-Hungary, then different European powers (due to treaties to support on another in times of war) joined in against each other, Britain and France were the last to get involved
UK got involved only because Belgium was attacked by Germany
(ultra brief summary)

Following this complete balls up of international treaties -18 million people were killed across the Western and Eastern fronts

We only focus on the Western one but the loses were huge all over Europe.
Following WW2, Europe decided "never again" and drew up plans to bring Europe together... hence the EEC/EU.

How quickly we all forget & dishonour the dead if a rain coat can cause such anger and division?

Whatsboutery. Actually I hope to hold Labour to a far far higher standard than UKIP, wouldn't you?

With everything else going on I politics does it really matter? Yes it wasn't the smartest of choices but the day was about remembering those who fought and died in the war - not about what he was wearing

He thought it was about what he was wearing. Otherwise he wouldn’t have chosen to look like he was waiting for a bus, a bit worried about the weather and ready to put his hood up.

It’s not his fucking coat that angers me, that’s his choice. it’s his respect at the cenotaph coat which was predictably inappropriate. Cometh the hour, cometh the man in a deliberately unsuitable coat. He knew it would raise hackles. WHEN IN A POSITION OF INFLUENCE, WHAT YOU WEAR IS IMPORTANT!

It's a coat. A sodding coat. It's literally not that deep, missbloomsbury. The faux outrage and sheer determination of some people on here to make it into some kind of political statement is unbe-fucking-lievable.

FFS- he was there, spent time afterwards with veterans.
What about ex service folk who are homeless, have no support with PTSD? Put your anger where it counts instead of criticising a politician who will address issues that matter.

jasjas1973

Sorry but I didn’t say it was triggered by this argument but it was certainly exacerbated by it. Wilhelm 2 was the eldest grandson of Queen Victoria and considered that he was slighted by Victoria’s other grandchildren, especially George V and he had issues with his uncle Edward V11. Because he couldn’t detach personal from political, he encouraged British/German animosity which lengthened the war. So -some clues can be claimed I think......

Put your anger where it counts instead of criticising a politician who will address issues that matter.

Unless it's Brexit, or Self ID, or anti semitism etc.

There is nothing wrong with people talking about his cagoule if they want to.

People can care about homeless ex veterans, and also think Jeremy Corbyn has bad taste in cagoules.

I'm really sick of the constant whataboutery that pops up when ever he gets criticised.

I reckon if it had rained more he would have put his hood up.

That would have been awesome. The present Prime Minister and the previous Prime Ministers, senior ministers, chiefs of staff, all under black umbrellas...and Corbyn in his blue anorak with the hood up. Absolutely awesome.

You’ve got to hand it to him: he may be an incompetent, bitter little man, but he can play the petulant child better than anyone else in public life.

Why on earth should he be beyond any criticism? No other politician is.

If it was really coming down he could have worn his little hat.

Some of those young men who gave their lives in WW1 could not even afford a sandwich to eat before they left their homes to go to war. My grandmother asked her mum for bread and jam for my grandfather as he was going off to war as his family had no food in the house. They weren't married then. I think most of the fallen would have been pleased whatever Corbyn was wearing that he was there. It was a remembrance service to remember the dead and anyone not doing just that and trying to score political points should bow their heads in SHAME. Now go and find something useful to do.

I think he should have worn one of those plastic pac-a-Mac rainhoods that my gran used to wear. Very useful in a sudden shower.

Good grief. Hang their heads in shame?

Lol at the comment he should have worn a tailored coat! Why? He's never worn anything tailored in his life! He isn't a tailored coat kinda guy and would have looked and been uncomfortable in one. I can't believe that being practical is a crime against humanity.

It isn't no one has said that.

People mainly think he could have looked a bit smarter.

Like I said I don't care but this thread is like a gift that keeps on giving.