Corbyn not at Festival of Remembrance

Yes Pantglas you could well be right, Corbyn may be spending more time with family and veggies if he loses this GE.

I'm guessing tomorrow we will be regaled with Corbyn is a baddie and so was Diana.

Possibly a side swipe of Boris is silly and Meghan is lazy.

Those are weighty subjects to tackle, but I was hoping for something amusing to lift our spirits on a wet Monday morning.

Prince Philip retired from public life in 2017 at the age of 96 after a lifetime of serving his country at war and peacetime - I think Corbyn will fall short in that comparison.

lemongrove Well, they could go back to bitching about the Royal Family. Ed Miliband has been criticised for not doing more to fight anti-Semitism. Or maybe Colleen Rooney has had Botox! Who knows?

crystaltipps I'm not actually sorry for Corbyn because it's his choice to be party leader, but watching the vultures circling isn't a pleasant experience.

Have you been called "an adorer of Corbyn" yet?

Today is almost over now though, what new threads will be brought forth for our interest tomorrow??

......and I’m offended at your fake offendedness gfp
But yes, Gonegirl I agree that a poster saying a ‘sodding concert’ for the Festival Of Remembrance is unpleasant.

I'm offended about being offended.

What’s truly offensive is starting a thread which uses the Festival of Remembrance for party political purposes

So offensive to call it ‘a sodding concert’

I'm no Corbyn fan but it's a sodding concert, not a wreath-laying. I really think this is fake outrage. Prince Philip didn't lay a wreath at the cenotaph today, but someone laid one on on his behalf. Shall we have a go at him?

No-one can defend the indefensible

Quietly amused that no one is defending Boris for lying, do we just accept that as ‘something politicians do’?

It's a scary emoji for sure.

Sorry merlot. I did see your emoji, but people sometimes use that when they are about to bite .
(Now you will be wondering if that's what I've just done - I haven't, I promise.)

My post was meant to be a joke, MamaCaz.

Never mind.

I don't know the facts, merlotgran. For all I know, he might have been called upon at very short notice to do this, or could be working day and night in a show at the moment, or some other reason that made the task of memorizing the words difficult.

Fancy criticising someone for not attending a concert. Ridiculous. JC is in no way “my leader” but I’m feeling more sorry for him now with all these people slavishly lapping up the Daily Heil and Daily Excess with their mudslinging and fake news.

So, you don't agree that Lee Mead should have learned the words to Morning Has Broken MamaCaz?

Can you explain why Opal? Or is it just a personal unreasoned feeling? Do you think the flood victims would agree with you?

OMG. I think this thread (or rather the comments within it) make it a strong contender for one of the nastiest, most ignorant, judgemental, predjudiced and narrow-minded threads ever!

Of course he should have been there! That's why I started the thread! And they are BOTH important events! If our 93 year old Queen can be there, so can he!!! As I said, there are no excuses and only the left-leaning gransnetters are trying to excuse him.

Why should he be there? (at the festival of remembrance) Were any of you complainers there? He was at the Cenotaph laying a wreath and that's the important event.

Watched shots of the ceremony and was amazed how many soldiers were lining the street. Maybe their time would have been better spent helping out in the flood area.