This Leader Is 'for Turning' So It Would Seem.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3236434/Corbyn-attack-shadow-cabinet-Battle-Britain-heroes-refusing-sing-national-anthem-memorial-service.html

[Baldric]

Is this a U-Turn by Labour, so soon?

[Baldric]

Sorry, should have said "a humiliating U-turn"

[jim360]

How many u-turns has Cameron made by now...? Should make Corbyn if anything a more promising candidate for PM!

Interesting what the criticism here is though. Lambasted for doing something according to his principles, and now for promising in future to do what is expected? It's almost as if the right-wing media don't like Corbyn much.

[Baldric]

What's to like?

[Khandro]

He's so odd, I wouldn't be surprised if he sang it in Esperanto

[Sqad]

I agree with jim....good move Corbyn.
Who cares what you said today it is what you will be saying in 5years time.

[Jackdaw33]

//But asked if he knows the words, she said: ‘I’m not sure, I will get back to you.'//

Of course he knows the words. Redwood's gaffe was not that he did not know the words of Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, but to pretend that he did. Hague made sure that he did, and ended up marrying the girl who taught him.

[Sqad]

LOl....LOL.....^^^ maybe!....maybe!

[naomi24]

Pathetic.

[anotheoldgit]

Sqad

/// Who cares what you said today it is what you will be saying in 5years time. ///

"Well at least I had 6 months of glory way back in 2015, what did I do wrong"?

[Sqad]

AOG....you may well be right.

I just have the feeling that this guy is no fool and once he has a taste of "leadership," then he may well be amenable to "certain adjustments " to his principles.

[Kromovaracun]

So the prissy, offended-by-design traditionalists will be unhappy that Corbyn didn't sing the national anthem, and the pious and belligerent activists who he represents will be delighted that he managed to kick up a completely avoidable controversy for no reason (absolutely nobody would have noticed if he had sung it). What a non-event.

I do not have much of an opinion on Corbyn yet. I want to see how he behaves as a political operator and make my judgement based on that. Not a good early sign though.

[Zacs-Master]

"The 1983 Labour manifesto, strongly socialist in tone, advocated unilateral nuclear disarmament, higher personal taxation and a return to a more interventionist industrial policy. The manifesto also pledged that a Labour government would abolish the House of Lords, nationalise banks and leave the then-European Economic Community. Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as "the longest suicide note in history."

De ja vu anyone?

[ludwig]

He's clearly out of his depth. Every time he talks to the press he appears to lose his temper, and while I sympathise with that, I think it demonstrates he's not up to the job of being a party leader let alone a PM.