Jeremy Corbyn makes most idiotic statement yet., after work drinks are sexist !!

[MattBackHome]

Bloke really doesn't do himself any favours does he. He's actually got some good ideas I reckon, but he's continually nausing it up.

 

[Notters]

I do think Corbyn presents as a bit of a tool. Where have I contradicted this? I think he's a sound man, with sound ideas. Mostly. He just presents himself to he press and the public so poorly.


Does he walk around London after 5pm at all? Pubs are rammed with clunge.

Agree with all this, but would prefer a sound man with sound ideas to the present government who can present themselves but lack the soundness!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I do think Corbyn presents as a bit of a tool. Where have I contradicted this? I think he's a sound man, with sound ideas. Mostly. He just presents himself to he press and the public so poorly.


Does he walk around London after 5pm at all? Pubs are rammed with clunge.

It's slightly odd to agree with an op and then when you realise you who the poster is distance yourself from it and hope that the op is wrong.

 

[The Clamp]

Agree with all this, but would prefer a sound man with sound ideas to the present government who can present themselves but lack the soundness!

Do they even bother to present themselves? I know it's a break at the moment but not much news coming from the group that are supposed to be easing us through Brexit.

 

[crookie]

Some things you just have to let people decide for themselves. If a wife thinks its sexist her husband goes down the pub at night, how is that anyone's business but him and his Mrs?

Frankly there are far more pressing matters do deal with atm.

Exactly right. Just wish politicians would butt out of peoples everyday lives. Concentrate on the big issues, there are plenty of them. Are there issues with childcare, glass ceiling, discrimination/sexism at work, pay gaps ? Absolutely, having after work drinks is nothing to do with any of that. It is a choice you make to have kids, and of course it reduces your opportunities to go to the pub, whether that's after work or not. In my pub, the after work drinkers are as likely to be female as male, and it is not my concern whether they have children or not !!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Following the event, held at Unison's offices, a drinks party was held.

They do a very good drinks party in those offices. I once got completely RATARSED there with John Prescott.

 

[Norman Potting]

They do a very good drinks party in those offices. I once got completely RATARSED there with John Prescott.

...And, any scandal to reveal Lord B? Mr. P. always seemed as though he enjoyed an ale or several, which is fine by me.

 

[Gwylan]

Are there issues with childcare, glass ceiling, discrimination/sexism at work, pay gaps ? Absolutely, having after work drinks is nothing to do with any of that.

Hmm... Just five minutes ago I was reading Anna Kessel's Eat, Sweat and Play, her excellent book on women and sport. In it she quotes a female PE teacher who speaks about how she was told not to apply for the head of PE job as it had to go to a man, who would fit in with the work ethos. And how she was frozen out of after-school drinks with the male PE teachers... part of that same ethos.

There's undoubtedly a problem in this country (and probably others) with jobs not going on merit but on other factors. There was a report out yesterday highlighting how excellent candidates for banking jobs were being denied positions because their faces didn't fit or were wearing the wrong tie or brown shoes.

It sounds like Corbyn was making some serious points but because his press advisers are idiots (see the Virgin Trains debacle), these issues have been lost and it's become about him again

EDIT: And I'd take his claims about sexism more seriously if the Labour Party could take sexism more seriously. It's not had a female leader in its entire history, no female Chancellor and only one home secretary. When the Labour Party has a female leader, we know we're getting somewhere

 

[Lord Bracknell]

This "story" is, of course, just the latest episode in the long-running saga of Let's Slag Off Jeremy Corbyn Regardless. The curious thing about this game is that it always focuses on something trivial and somehow prevents anyone noticing that there is an anti-austerity message that never gets a look in.

Why do people fall for it, time after time?

 

[Buzzer]

This "story" is, of course, just the latest episode in the long-running saga of Let's Slag Off Jeremy Corbyn Regardless. The curious thing about this game is that it always focuses on something trivial and somehow prevents anyone noticing that there is an anti-austerity message that never gets a look in.

Why do people fall for it, time after time?

Agree. I'd like to see far more coverage devoted to asking him exactly what human rights issues he brought up on Iranian State TV in exchange for £20k - aside of course from mentioning the Zionist BBC. I'd also like to know why he can't specifically criticise anti-Semitism without mentioning other forms of bigotry. I'd also like to know why he can't actively defend his own MPs against bullying even when it's right in front of him in his presence.

And more than anything, rather than a bland "we oppose all forms of abuse", he specifically calls out those making online death-threats to his opponents. It's not good enough to say that they aren't a true supporter - trouble is, that they are.

The Corbyn cult is a very odd beast indeed. Quite, quite mad.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

This "story" is, of course, just the latest episode in the long-running saga of Let's Slag Off Jeremy Corbyn Regardless. The curious thing about this game is that it always focuses on something trivial and somehow prevents anyone noticing that there is an anti-austerity message that never gets a look in.

Why do people fall for it, time after time?

Perhaps because the man himself is not as focused on anti austerity as a Labour leader should be. If he stopped posturing about the latest middle class trendy cause then the media would have to report on austerity. He is is own worst enemy and I am unsure why people fall for him as leader.

 

[jakarta]

The Corbyn cult is a very odd beast indeed. Quite, quite mad.

As I have posted elsewhere, the only logical explanation is that he is a Deep Tory Mole who has been specifically instructed to act this way in order to destroy Labour's chances of power for years to come.

 

[Buzzer]

As I have posted elsewhere, the only logical explanation is that he is a Deep Tory Mole who has been specifically instructed to act this way in order to destroy Labour's chances of power for years to come.

If that's truly the case then I do wish that Agent Corbyn would ask his fan club to lay off with the anti-semitism. This is the UK in the 2nd decade of the 21st century. Anti-semitism shouldn't still be a 'thing'.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Fair enough, I'm aware there is a bit of history between certain posters

I am interested in threads/news like this because I believe it's more evidence of the authoritarian streak to JC. I believe the image he likes to portray to the country is entirely fake and his view that people's attendance at the pub should be regulated in some way is indicative of the real JC.
How exactly are employers supposed to control it even if they wanted to ?
JC is a professional campaigner who surrounds himself with adoring disciples. He is destroying the Labour Party.

Absolutely agree with this. He is authoritarian and sexist. And humourless and irritable. To be a good politician requires that you 'smell' of 'knowhow'. The words 'smell' and 'Corbyn' make me think of only one thing. 'Farts'.

 

[Murray 17]

Just seen that Corbyn is 1-16 to win the leadership election. Seems bizarre that he is so popular with the membership, and so unpopular with his MPs.

 

[melias shoes]

Could he get any more ridiculous ? After work drinks are sexist ?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...ure-for-being-unfair-on-mothers-a3335001.html

I think he's doing a 'great' job. Hope he continues destroying them. Unelectable fool.

 

[Soulman]

He has been a laughing stock for a long while, his latest foul ups make me wonder whether he is insane, drunk, or a plant to make the Labour party even more un electable.

 

[melias shoes]

If that's truly the case then I do wish that Agent Corbyn would ask his fan club to lay off with the anti-semitism. This is the UK in the 2nd decade of the 21st century. Anti-semitism shouldn't still be a 'thing'.

Correct. Just imagine the furore if the anti semitism had come from the Tories. Labour the Real Nasty party.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Just seen that Corbyn is 1-16 to win the leadership election. Seems bizarre that he is so popular with the membership, and so unpopular with his MPs.

Most of them know they won't have a job after the next general election.

 

[Buzzer]