But they criticise a.man who did
Yes, but in the immortal words of Bananarama and Fun Boy Three (sort of)
‘T’aint what you do (it’s the way that you do it)’.
It shouldn’t matter But, it does. Michael Foot did the same in 1981 at the Cenotaph Remembrance Service. The non-donkey jacket, donkey jacket. From Wales Online:
But it was the donkey jacket comment that stuck in the public’s mind, and two years later Mr Foot’s Labour suffered an election hammering at the hands of Mrs Thatcher’s Conservatives
It probably matters more now than 37 years ago given the intense critical media and, indeed, social media, overlayer given to everything that everyone says and does. My DD15 is intelligent and aware of current affairs but beyond that not massively interested in politics but, her comment, upon seeing the images of the silence at the Cenotaph coverage was, ‘Blimey, did he buy the smallest poppy he could find? His jacket looks awful and his trousers are too long. And, why is he not holding his poppy wreath up like the others?’.
I’d love an opposition I could vote for but seriously, he looked like he was pissed off his mate Perry couldn’t come with. And, to the PP saying that when they saw him they just knew people would be going on about it, well then, surely that’s because they know it looked bloody wrong? And the biggest problem is, you know, you just know, it’s not because he’s the greatest leader this country may ever have, in waiting, who just also happens to be a bit shit at sartorial choices, it’s because he was making a point. And for that he’s a prick, because there’s a lot of people in this country who really need the Labour Party to be a credible opposition, right now.