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?

No but you can't argue that they are in disarray as the leadership have when different senior peoole from yiur own party have briefed different things in the space of a day

SillySally Errrm, I can indeed argue that when you decide to state the Labour party can't even agree amongst themselves. You brought it up....

I don't think the dress code for this needed to be written down - it is hardly a State Secret! If you were going to a funeral, and no dress code had been specified, you would still know what to wear, wouldn't you?

He followed the 'code' of smart suit. He wore a coat on top that would serve him for the rest of the day, which was spent with actual veterans.
Would you rather he wore a black coat that pleased you and then buggered off to a fancy tea with the other well dressed?

Would you rather he wore a black coat that pleased you and then buggered off to a fancy tea with the other well dressed?

He stayed behind, Labour have neither confirmed or denied that he went to the VIP lunch afterwards, so why are only reading headlines and running with it?

I really couldn't care less if policitans go to a fancy tea tbh.

As for Brexit, he promised to give greater democracy to the membership who overwhelmingly want a people's vote.

I think trying for a GE is serving their own ends to be honest.

As JC only had a short time to digest everything from May's document and to prepare questions I think it's fair he had to write down and read out the points he needed to raise.
It hardly matters whether he reads it out or memorises it but of course, don't listen to the content....just concentrate on the method eh?

FGS - if COURSE it matters!!!! It matters because it shows he's not capable (and never is, not just yesterday) of thinking on the spot. Quite a serious failing in a prospective PM don't you think?!!!!She handed herself to the House on a plate yesterday and the vast majority MPs managed to challenge her eloquently without notes. It should go like this:

TM says something
JC responds TO WHAT SHE JUST SAID

But it invariably goes like this:

TM says something
JC reads whatever's written on his pad in front of him REGARDLESS of whether or not it relates to what she's just said.

I despair.

Limensoda
When the dress code is proper black overcoats for the men, an anorak sticks out

So there's a code written down which he received and ignored?

Your straw clutching is reaching new heights of desperation. It is bloody obvious from all the many previous remembrance services what is expected.

I think the code is that you turn up and are respectful.

He did and he was.

@Limensoda - I have already said that JC’s choice of coat doesn’t bother me much - but it does matter to some people, and, on an emotive subject like Remembrance, I don’t think it is unreasonable to expect people in the public eye to conform to the accepted dress code at a public ceremony for Remembrance, when failing to do so could reasonably be expected to cause upset.

He has a suitable coat (he wore it last year) and he could easily have taken an umbrella in case of rain.

”Would you rather he wore a black coat that pleased you and then buggered off to a fancy tea with the other well dressed?”

Well - those weren’t the only two choices, were they? Wearing an overcoat rather than an anorak wouldn’t have stopped him staying on and talking to the veterans, would it?

SDTG I agree with what you have been saying on this thread and equally like you I'm not bothered about the cost particularly.

He does have this belligerent attitude, the way he talks to interviewers asking really quite pertinent questions etc.

I think trying for a GE is serving their own ends to be honest

I think there are many vulnerable people and those struggling to manage would see that as serving them tbh.

FGS - if COURSE it matters!!!! It matters because it shows he's not capable (and never is, not just yesterday) of thinking on the spot. Quite a serious failing in a prospective PM don't you think?

And yet he managed taking questions and being grilled by the public in debates prior to the last GE whist May refused to debate with him . May gives a good show in the HoC where she has prior knowledge of the questions that will be put to her and has responses written for her, but in interviews and public debates where she doesn't know what will come at her, she stutters and waffles. She persistently refuses to go head to head on tv.

Poor and vulnerable people would be no better served under a Labour brexit. You know this.

Really, what our opinion of TM is is largely irrelevant. I've never voted Tory and I certainly won't be starting now.

I want Labour to be better so I can feel I can vote for them again.

You can slag the Torres off all day, I'll agree with you.

It's not you either love Corbs and "hate"the Tories, or you think he's a belligerent old goat and love them.

I would bet the vast majority of people you are arguing on this thread are not Tories tbh.

In all honesty in the utter shit show of UK politics at the moment I would struggle to vote for anyone.

Me too, @HauntedPencil.

I don't even get why they want a GE. If they get a people's vote they can leave this mess with the Tories, where it belongs. I'd rather they put their energies into pushing that.

What if they win? They won't get a better deal for the poor people. I suppose they might stay in the single market, although they still said in 2015 they would stop FOM and that deal just isn't on the table.

Anyway this thread is nearly full and I'm digressing away from his outerwear I know.

Only 9 messages to go until the thread of the War of Magic Grandad’s Anorak is all over.

So I’ll just say that...his anorak was comedy gold, hood and all.

Part of me actually secretly wants Corbyn to be PM - the laughs available at him and his flock of devotees would be never-ending. Dangerous thoughts, I know, but I just can’t suppress them.

Poor and vulnerable people would be no better served under a Labour brexit. You know this

Don't be ridiculous.

Corbyn not perfect?

Blasphemy! Burn the heretic!

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius
Well I might or might not put the persons name in the thread (my choice). What you choose to do is up to you! The only way you would know would know who I was directing the comment to, would be to actually read the thread (hence my comment to read the damn thread). I personally could not bothered in doing so as there are so many other conversations going on in this thread. Like this one now going off on a tangent about who I was responding to with my response. Its getting a bit silly isn't it - and all because of Jeremy Corbyns coat. Oh that Jeremy Corbyn has a lot to answer for doesn't he.

Jeremy should have worn a smarter coat. End of.

Jeremy should have worn a smarter coat. End of.

Jeremy should have worn a smarter coat. End of.