To think that a lot of Corbyn's anorak comments

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Aren't genuine? As in, they are paid for?

Come on, real people cannot ACTUALLY be that shallow!

(I am not a labor voter, nor a voter at all. Just an observer, really)

Was thinking the same.

They're just jealous that they don't look so slim and suave at his age.

no, I think the majority are real.

Funny, I was thinking the opposite. A lot seem very Momentum in the intensity of their defence of The Anorak. But anoraks are Momentum uniform so it's difficult to know.

I think they were real.

I wouldn't call that an anorak. Mind you, he does have a hobby of photographing manhole covers.

YABU they were real. How do you get money for this stuff anyway? are people paying for MN posts

Of course people ARE paying for all kinds of posts, including MN
Genuine or not, it’s a beautiful and insightful thread, in a certain sense...

They aren't real, they're Russians or Tories.. Both scum.

Well, obviously ALL Russians aren't scum.. Tories on the other hand...

Anyone annoyed by a man who spent time with veterans while the others pissed off for drinks afterwards in their posh coats is frankly a shallow idiot.

But that’s me today as I am in a very bad mood.

It’s pathetic. I’m not a hardcore Corbyn fan but the focus on his jacket over Tory policies is pathetic and I suspect you’re right. The poster who started the thread on here recently couldn’t even spell his name, so not sure they’re in a position to be criticising anyone!

This conversation just reminds me of servants severely judging “ their betters” for not being gentlemen enough.

“If I was in his position I would steal enough money to buy myself a decent coat”

I'm as left wing as they come and even I made a comment to my child about how he stuck out and the coat looked a bit scruffy.

But I wouldn't have gone as far as making a thread on it! Or seeing it as the most notable thing about the service

So I dunno - Are there really people being paid to bitch about JC's dress online? Have things really got to that stage?

My comments were real, thanks. Corbyn is a virtue signalling twit.

I commented and it was genuine with no payment or prompting.

I would have made the same comment for a Tory, libdem, Green, UKIP, Plaid Cymru, Scottish Nationalist, DUP or any other politician wearing a naff anorak on Remembrance Sunday at the cenetaph.

A foreign friend of mine spent a year in the uk in the buildup to the second Iraq war. She was normally utterly apolitical but she comented on the absurd levels of media demonisation of Saddam Hussein at the time. "Cartoon villain," I think she said. It sort of stuck in my mind. He really was about as close to a demon as a human being can be, but most of us had no idea who he was until the media started exhorting us to hate him.
At present it's Jeremy Corbyn's turn to occupy that media niche where the UK always has a cartoon villain, and a lot of us respond enthusiastically to the media indicating to us that he is the hate figure of the moment. Sometimes when I read about him on AIBU I think about the therapeutic Ten-minutes-of-hate sessions in 1984.

Is this a TAAT?

I'm old enough to remember when Michael Foot wore a donkey jacket to the Remembrance Day service and got similarly ridiculously outraged comments long before social media, obvs. I kind of assumed people had got a bit more sensible in 40 years but it appears not.

Yes, @CoalTit

I absolutely have no stake in this game, also no knowledge of UK politics. I am even supposed to hate the guy because I am Jewish and he is supposedly not anti-antisemitic enough or something of the sort.

It is just obvious from this position how much the media picks up on every small insignificant detail of this poor guy's life - and many people are happy to swallow. His life seems to be super boring - his offences are like the anorak, the wrong hat, not some shady offshore accounts.

But its also funny how this dressing up thing is important here in Britain. Even to people who never in their lives wore a kind of coat they wanted Corbyn to wear.

What's "naff" about this anorak? It's dark blue. It's just not very expensive. For most people this is what they would wear in such weather.

It's not like he wore a Peppa pig poncho from Primark.

YABU - I think there are a lot of people who have been raised to understand the basic rules of etiquette, good etiquette includes dressing appropriately for certain occasions.

Jeramy Corbyn was not dressed appropriately and people notice.

Aren't genuine? As in, they are paid for?

There is a lot of political shilling/astroturfing that goes on, here and other forums, some only think its the other side doing it.

Unfortunately its the nature of the internet now, where everyone who doesn't agree is either a Tory/Labour/Russian/Daily Mail Reader/Fascist/Racist/Bot

Delete as applicable.

The people who were raised to understand basic rules of etiquette are hardly a significant part of the Daily Mail audience (or the anorak bash in general).

It's more like people who imagine there are some rules people in "high society" are supposed to follow, but aren't exactly sure what the rules are.

Jeremy Corbyn does NOT look suave!

Suave - (especially of a man) charming, confident, and elegant.

synonyms: charming, sophisticated, debonair, urbane, worldly, worldly-wise, polished, refined, poised, self-possessed, dignified, civilized, gentlemanly, gallant.

Not things I associate with Jeremy!

Perhaps you meant svelte, @Rachelover40 - although that doesn’t just mean slender, but also means elegant - again, not an adjective I’d apply to JC.