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To still be cross at Jeremy Corbin's anorak

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popcornwizard · 11/11/2018 22:10

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?

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JeremyCorbynsBeard · 14/11/2018 19:49

FOR FUCK'S SAKE GROW UP OP.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 14/11/2018 19:50

No we are not Bertrand

Mikklehaha · 14/11/2018 19:50

SDTG

If he had a different coat on then they would have criticised his hair, complained about the angle of his head, bitched about the hemline of his trousers, whatever drivel they could dredge up from their shallow, artificial and pointless little birch fest columns.
The fact is, the ‘optics’ don’t matter, not in the slightest. The slime-mongers just keep telling you that they do to distract the hard of thinking from the real issues that actually matter.

HauntedPencil · 14/11/2018 19:53

So you think criticism of his coat is a deliberate ploy to distract everyone from his general political brilliance?

BertrandRussell · 14/11/2018 19:55

“Though there are many similarities never had a real job, privately educated and from a privileged background oh and misogynistic “

He can hardly be held responsible for his education. He was a trade union official for some years, which is closer to a real job than many other MPs. Misogynist? Evidence?

jasjas1973 · 14/11/2018 19:56

No but he is considered a threat to the Tories, so ANY criticism is warranted and deserved Hmm

SillySallySingsSongs · 14/11/2018 19:56

He can hardly be held responsible for his education.

Yet people seem to think Tory MPs can be. Can't have it both ways.

BertrandRussell · 14/11/2018 19:58

“Yet people seem to think Tory MPs can be.”

I don’t. I think they can be held responsible for their children’s education- but not their own. That would be silly,

HauntedPencil · 14/11/2018 20:00

You'll easily find multiple articles/sources on a cursory google that support Enthusiasms comments and those that don't.

I don't see the point of demanding evidence tbh, you either come to the conclusion from what you've read that you are or aren't happy with his opinions and actions in that regard.

BertrandRussell · 14/11/2018 20:06

Thank you, derxa. Good old Channel 4. I suggest everyone reads that link.

noblegiraffe · 14/11/2018 20:09

he is considered a threat to the Tories

Bloody hell if there was anyone even semi-competent in his role the country would look very different.

Threaten them? He doesn’t even oppose them. Hmm

SillySallySingsSongs · 14/11/2018 20:09

In October 1984, two weeks after an IRA bomb killed five at the Tory Party conference in Brighton, Corbyn invited convicted IRA volunteers Linda Quigley and Gerry MacLochlainn to the House of Commons.

Taken from the link that @dexra posted.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 14/11/2018 20:09

The fact that he ignored women in his party being attacked verbally and online by activists, the support of self id regardless of what feminist groups are saying and who he won’t even engage with and quite a number of female Labour MP’s have spoken out against the rise of misogyny under his leadership

I pointed out similarities he has with many MP’s one is being very privileged and having revived a private education

Trade union official was that during or after he dropped out of his studies

SillySallySingsSongs · 14/11/2018 20:11

As for his coat and wreath laying at the cenotaph. He will probably say in years to come that he was there but didn't participate...

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 14/11/2018 20:12

SillySally they should have chucked him out of the Labour Party then

But bigger things were going on

No doubt we shall be told soon how he was part of the peace process Confused

RedRoseReb · 14/11/2018 20:19

Silly Sally , I noticed that ( knew it already plus lots of other things not mentioned in this fact check)

That a poster thinks this fact check shows him in a good light makes my little mind boggle.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/11/2018 20:27

@DappledThings - the press has a bit of a history for dredging up things to criticise JC for - and not just him - I remember the furore over Michael Foot’s duffel coat - so even if he didn’t think of it, someone in Labour Party PR should have known it could be an issue, and advised him accordingly. Maybe they did, and he ignored it, or maybe he is badly advised - who knows.

FWIW, I don’t have a problem with his coat, but it clearly has been seized on by some, as a stick to beat him with, and that has the potential to distract from what actually matters - his policies, and the business of Opposition.

BertrandRussell · 14/11/2018 20:36

“That a poster thinks this fact check shows him in a good light makes my little mind boggle”

I don’t think it shows him in a good light or a bad light. It just shows a politician doing his job.

dawnacorns · 14/11/2018 20:42

He's old enough to remember the Michael Foot coat debacle that's for sure.

Limensoda · 14/11/2018 21:06

Limensoda? He is openly sympathetic. It’s not a secret

@racecardriver

To their cause? Yes. To killing?.... No.
I don't know why people can't get their head round this.
I'm sympathetic to their cause having read the history. Many people are. Do we support the terrorist attacks? Absolutely not!

SillySallySingsSongs · 14/11/2018 21:06

I don’t think it shows him in a good light or a bad light. It just shows a politician doing his job.

It wasn't his job. How also do you think it made people like Norman Tebbit feel?

Vicky1990 · 14/11/2018 21:17

Look on YouTube, good clip of Corbyn refusing about five times to comdem the IRA.
Quite a few clips to watch him struggle to condemn murders carried out by his friends.

Thymeout · 14/11/2018 21:22

Oh come on! You can be sympathetic to the cause of a united Ireland without inviting convicted members of the IRA to tea in the HoC only weeks after the IRA had tried to blow up the Government. I'd call that offering sympathy and support because it gave a cloak of respectability to the perpetrators of acts of extreme violence. It was a very public insult to those who suffered in the Brighton and other IRA bombings.

Even Ken Livingstone didn't entertain jihadi muslims in City Hall weeks after the 7/7 bombings.

Corbyn always tries to excuse his actions by saying that he was engaging in dialogue. This is wearing a bit thin. It's funny how he only talks to the side he agrees with and, in the case of Hamas, the side actively disrupting the peace process, not the more moderate Palestinians on the West Bank.

Mikklehaha · 14/11/2018 21:24

Haunted Pencil
So you think criticism of his coat is a deliberate ploy to distract everyone from his general political brilliance?

That’s not what I said. And herein lies the problem. All sorts of people, bowling along with their confirmation bias, making up their opponents arguements so that they can knock them down like straw men.
I did not say anything about corbyn’s political brilliance, I said this sort of trash is a distraction from real issues that actually matter.