Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbot had an affair?

I don't know about the personhole cover hobby, after all, some people may think it is strange to go round brass-rubbing in churches ...

It makes DC.... De man in Charge ( DC, geddit?)

Sorry VQ we can't allow any made up names!

Sorry to come in a bit late with this comment, but am on holiday( where there are a few things to keep me busy.

If JC is the messiah what does that make David Cameron?

Demon Chief (one of the Devil's pseudonyms). Coincidence....or is it?

Oh, come on, I'm not Corbyn's biggest fan fan, but this manhole cover thing is totally made up, yes? It's too ridiculous to be true!

Ana
He looks worn out already
Oh dear, and he has a young wife ...

I doubt whether passion is going to be rekindled between them. He looks worn out already...

I think Len McCluskey thinks he is anyway

Is he 'on the right'?
Oh, perhaps not!

Slapped wrist, be serious.
(although I thought this thread was not a serious one)

I don't care/don't mind if JBC and DA had an affair, a fling, a liaison, a beautiful love story or whatever years ago, as long as it doesn't impinge on any decision making now.

If JC is the messiah what does that make David Cameron?

Yes, I know all that, Annie - I just meant that saying that Corbyn is Labour's messiah or saviour isn't necessarily equating him with Jesus, or being blasphemous, and that it isn't only 'those on the right' who are referring to him in such a way.

How many have the Labour Party had?
Is he the second, third, fourth or what saviour?

He has to be better than the last one.

Have to disagree rosequartz , more likely his second coming will be as written by G A Studdert-Kennedy - 'When Jesus came to Birmingham'

Ana, anyone can be a saviour, depending on your faith - if of faith - the Jews are still waiting for the first Messiah, Christians for him to come a second time.

They don't work for me either vq
(was I blasphemous? Did I say something against JC?)

I did think his rapturous reception as a saviour in some quarters was like greeting the new messiah.

Why is it that they work for some and not for others?

"We need to know"!

Where did the questions marks come from.....aaarrrrggghhh. Will I never see a quotation mark again as punishment for such blasphemy??????

It would have been very strange for him not to be married by his thirties in first century Israel.

But as John was ??the disciple whom Jesus loved.?? John 13:23 perhaps it's not so surprising he wasn't officially married.

There were a lot of effusive left-wing articles proclaiming Corby to be the Labour Party's saviour, during and after the leadership election campaign. That's what 'messiah' means, technically, so what's the problem?

Quite a lot of people are into manhole covers
Gracesgran and Tegan I have to take issue with you.
That is a sexist name for a personhole cover.

Jingle, you will have noticed it is those on the right here who keep bringing Messiah into the discussion yes?
Annie

First time I mentioned it, it is everyone else who keeps referring to his initials being the same as .....
I usually refer to him as JBC, just to differentiate you understand.

Me, on the right?
You have to be kidding, just devil's advocate me!
I get a sore arse backside sitting on the fence so occasionally jump down one side or the other.

Some people think that Jesus had a love affair with Mary Magdalene
djen No, they were married of course!

Well, your grandchildren won't appreciate what an interesting life you've led unless you tell them about your debauched youth, Gracesgran!

Was he still married though? In which case she was having an affair with a married man
Would that be right Roseq. Surely if he was still married (although I understood he was not) he was having the affair and she was in a relationship. That is, of course, if you use an affair in a pejorative sense as the me-ja seem to do.

I feel that an affair is something you pass through. Either to no physical relationship (friends, enemies, just don't care) or a relationship on a firmer footing.

It seems Annie that I too have lived a life of debauchery - I hope my grandchildren appreciate what an interesting life I have led.

I think Jesus was married to MM too NotTooOld. As a Jew he would have been married before he reached the age he died. We were not told whose the "wedding at Cana" was but he certainly acted as a host which would be odd if it wasn't his, etc., etc.

I think Jesus Christ (another JC - whoops, sorry) was actually married to Mary Magdalene. There is a theory that the woman shaped blank on a famous painting of the last supper was a painted-out MM.