Is this JC’s “Donkey jacket gate”?

I think Jeremy Corbyn genuinely doesn't care about clothes, and he does look slightly more respectable now than when he first appeared, probably down to his aides.

I didn't think the anorak was too bad, but the comment about him looking like a geography teacher is unfair to geography teachers; they have far better educational qualifications but nothing like the salary.

What I do find offensive is MaryEliza's use of swear words, again, to underline her (inaccurate ) point of view. I took the 'donkey jacket moment' to refer to Michael Foot , and that was how it was described on the Today programme.

Calm voice of reason Eazybee - as with others.
Thank goodness some of us can express an opinion without getting apoplectic or swearing all over the place!

I didn't think the anorak was too bad, but the comment about him looking like a geography teacher is unfair to geography teachers; they have far better educational qualifications but nothing like the salary.


At least he managed to find his way there, so he does have something in common with geography teachers.

Are there any images of Corbyn looking smart with Hamas and Gerry Adams please?

I can't see the problem. It was cold and wet - he wore a suitable garment.

Michael did not wear a donkey jacket, his wife showed it to me, it was a three quarter wool coat , Jill chose it because of his health

The media are clearly struggling for news - though I would have thought there was plenty around.

batty, I don’t recall Hamas or Adams being present at the cenotaph laying a wreath of poppies to honour the dead

my question was in response to another poster who mentioned he could look smart on occasions.

For whats its worth, having had a quick glance at images of the cenotaph ceremony, I think the man looks ill.

I thought Corbyn looked scruffy and showed disrespect not what you would expect from a would be prime minister. He'd look good on the world stage scruffy Corbyn fancy having him represent Britain we'd be a laughing stock.

www.google.co.uk/search?q=corbyn+in+fur+coat&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB703GB703&oq=corbyn+in+fur+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2.11252j0j7&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=zW7scbJG6xd5TM:

He can certaintly dress up when he chooses to !

Good grief he's gone completely the other way ?

Note he didn’t arrive on his bicycle ?

Melania Trump looks immaculate but she's dead behind the eyes. Her husband looks smart but he is a vile misogynist.

Is Trump the only politician to put forward as a comparison?

Exactly. Respect is not about clothes- respect would be to stop selling arms to dictators who continue to kill their people, and stopping going to war to cause the same. Posh clothes, pomp and ceremony - clutching the arms contracts behind their back ...

As Lucky says, the weather was atrocious, and it was perhaps not the best choice - but totally acceptable. As for the News, the whole News and nothing but was about Rememberance- and I could not help thinking it was VERY deliberate to avoid other subjects. And I am NO fan of Corbyn.

All this proves is that there is nothing else to criticise the Labour Party for just now. It rained earlier, he wore a raincoat with a hood, some might consider that sensible. I didn't go to a service at a Cenotaph I read Siegfried Sassoon's " On passing the New Menin Gate". I don't suppose the soldiers who died in the mud would be concerned what someone wore. The last two lines sum it up
"Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime."

The weather was atrocious?

I must have been watching the wrong wreath laying ceremony.

Better go to Specsavers.

Me too merlot

I think if your photo/video footage is going to be beamed across the free world, you have a duty as The elected head of a parliamentary party to look smart and statesmen like.

If he cannot organise his wardrobe, what chance has he of organising the UK.

He seems to have adopted a very low profile politically at the moment, when you would have thought HE would be taking every opportunity to "oppose" the government at any and every opportunity?

Oops to many "opportunities" in last sentence- sorry ?

This is what it should be all about:

www.facebook.com/novaramedia/videos/2371387979569022/

One ex-soldiers view.

I am extremely proud of my serving Officer AC. Who has taken part in Remembrance Day Parades since being a cadet. They had Parades, all be it on a smaller scale, whilst in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia to name just a few.This is not a view that they or their serving friends hold.

Is Trump the only politician to put forward as a comparison?
Well, I mentioned Trump because, like him or loathe him, he does look smart.
However, I brought his name into the conversation because Corbyn did turn up and lay a wreath at the Cenotaph but Trump couldn't turn up at a ceremony at a ceremony in Belgium.

It's beginning to remind me of that Wallace and Gromit film The Wrong Trousers'.

To be fair, I don't think that Jeremy looks smart even when he tries. He's just one of those people.
He probably thought his tie matched his poppy as well.

Goodness, me defending Corbyn
I should go and have a lie down with a nice