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Title: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 09, 2019, 10:46:30 pm
Anybody see Jeremy Corbyn there tonight?
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Not Now Kato on November 09, 2019, 10:57:26 pm
Didn't see you there either!
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Filo on November 09, 2019, 11:00:12 pm
Anybody see Jeremy Corbyn there tonight?

You probably won’t do, he’s been in Doncaster visiting flood areas, as important as remembrance day is, there are important issues of today to sort out
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 10, 2019, 12:41:39 am
Anybody see Jeremy Corbyn there tonight?

That's a pathetic criticism Sproty. You'd criticise him if he didn't visit SY to find out what had happened in the floods. You're criticising him because he HAS visited Conisbrough rather than go for the photo op that Johnson chose tonight.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: big fat yorkshire pudding on November 10, 2019, 07:39:14 am
He could have done both couldn't he?  It's no issue to me but opens him up to criticsm again.

I would have hoped the pm would attend this every year.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: glosterred on November 10, 2019, 08:31:22 am
Has he ever attended one of these services?


Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: SydneyRover on November 10, 2019, 08:44:06 am
Has he ever attended one of these services?
why don't you tell us instead of just casting aspertions glostered?
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: drfchound on November 10, 2019, 09:01:46 am
If HS2 had been up and running he might just have made it there on time. 🤭
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: glosterred on November 10, 2019, 09:32:34 am
Has he ever attended one of these services?
why don't you tell us instead of just casting aspertions glostered?

I asked as I don’t know, does the leader of the opposition get an invite? I do know he’s attended other Remembrance  services for terrorist so just wondering if he’s attended one of these services for those that have died in war fighting for this country of ours


Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: SydneyRover on November 10, 2019, 09:40:50 am
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Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 10, 2019, 09:47:25 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: drfc1951 on November 10, 2019, 10:13:23 am
I didn't watch last night,but ive watched in the past and JC has been there.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Filo on November 10, 2019, 10:36:00 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: glosterred on November 10, 2019, 10:39:08 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?

Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Filo on November 10, 2019, 10:51:15 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?



Already commented if you care to read the thread
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Not Now Kato on November 10, 2019, 10:57:45 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?

Did you attend last night?
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: glosterred on November 10, 2019, 11:30:06 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?

Did you attend last night?

No, did you

Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: glosterred on November 10, 2019, 11:32:25 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?



Already commented if you care to read the thread

So have I if you care to read the thread

Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: IDM on November 10, 2019, 11:37:12 am
All 3 main party leaders were at the cenotaph today.  I didn’t watch but this has been reported on the bbc news website.

As for last night, I also didn’t watch so can’t comment.  However if this is something which the party leaders get invited to, then they should go or be officially represented by a suitable deputy.  That is acceptable in my opinion for the Albert hall  went, but not for the cenotaph unless the absence is for ill health..
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Filo on November 10, 2019, 11:49:37 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?



Already commented if you care to read the thread

So have I if you care to read the thread



Not regarding today like I asked the OP before you stuck your oar in
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: glosterred on November 10, 2019, 11:52:02 am
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?



Already commented if you care to read the thread

So have I if you care to read the thread



Not regarding today like I asked the OP before you stuck your oar in

Thought this was a forum that anyone could participate in, didn’t realise it wasn’t.

Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 10, 2019, 01:25:08 pm
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?



Already commented if you care to read the thread

So have I if you care to read the thread



Not regarding today like I asked the OP before you stuck your oar in

Never had an invitation I could turn down, unlike some!
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 10, 2019, 01:26:51 pm
By the way I have just been to a very nice remembrance service at Church today.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Filo on November 10, 2019, 02:06:15 pm
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?



Already commented if you care to read the thread

So have I if you care to read the thread



Not regarding today like I asked the OP before you stuck your oar in

Never had an invitation I could turn down, unlike some!

I never asked if you went, if you care to read the thread
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: scawsby steve on November 10, 2019, 02:35:02 pm
By the way I have just been to a very nice remembrance service at Church today.

Me too Sproty.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 10, 2019, 03:35:36 pm
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?



Already commented if you care to read the thread

So have I if you care to read the thread



Not regarding today like I asked the OP before you stuck your oar in

Never had an invitation I could turn down, unlike some!

I never asked if you went, if you care to read the thread
I haven't had the telly on today As I said I went to church my self to mark rememberance day having lost three great uncles in the Great War and my Grandmother and Aunt in the second.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 10, 2019, 04:07:20 pm
Ah I see the Tory rags have picked up on Corbyns abscence....he loves to court controversy, some situations are easily avoided, he is a real lightweight when it comes to common sense!
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Not Now Kato on November 10, 2019, 07:21:56 pm
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?

Did you attend last night?

No, did you

Why should I have?  Why should Jeremy Corbyn have?  In fact, why should anyone have?  It isn't mandatory!
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: glosterred on November 10, 2019, 07:26:47 pm
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?

Did you attend last night?

No, did you

Why should I have?  Why should Jeremy Corbyn have?  In fact, why should anyone have?  It isn't mandatory!

Why should I have? It isn’t mandatory is it!

Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Not Now Kato on November 10, 2019, 07:35:25 pm
I didn't see him I just wondered if the leader of the opposition got an invite. And I do recall that it's a 96 minute train journey from Doncaster to London.

Any comment on JC’s attendance at todays parade?

Yes we are talking about last night not today any comments about him not attending last night?

Did you attend last night?

No, did you

Why should I have?  Why should Jeremy Corbyn have?  In fact, why should anyone have?  It isn't mandatory!

Why should I have? It isn’t mandatory is it!

I didn't say you should have, in fact I simply asked a question, (twice), - as meaningless as the original post in this thread, just to prove a point.  Sadly, it seems to have been lost amongst the 'dislike' of Jeremy Corbyn!
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: wilts rover on November 10, 2019, 08:18:21 pm
Ah I see the Tory rags have picked up on Corbyns abscence....he loves to court controversy, some situations are easily avoided, he is a real lightweight when it comes to common sense!

Although they failed to pick up on Johnson looking scruffy at the cenotaph before laying a wreath upside down. Funny that.

They also fail to mention that after the service Johnson went to a VIP dinner whilst Corbyn went to read a poem at his local remembrance service. Funny that.

Can someone please clarify that all the royal family and all the other leaders of opposition parties were at the AH last night? Personally I hope they weren't because it should be a service for our military personnel, past and present, not a PR opportunity for celebs.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Filo on November 10, 2019, 08:22:49 pm
Phil the Greek wasn’t there
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: wilts rover on November 10, 2019, 08:27:46 pm
If anyone saw the service of remembrance this morning, I didn't I was out doing some volunteer work, in the garden of remembrance in Westminster Abbey was a poppy hand made by the future Mrs Wilts Rover on a visit to the Poppy Factory a couple of weeks ago.

The poppy was dedicated to her great-grandfather, who was gassed, survived the war and lived to be 100 and my great-grandfather who was a miner with connections to Denaby and Tickhill who died at Ypres a week after arriving at the front.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 10, 2019, 08:41:50 pm
"Corbyn went to read a poem at his local remembrance service."

PR opportunity?
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: foxbat on November 10, 2019, 09:04:15 pm
Johnson’s incompetence , whilst looking dressed like he had had a fight with a Flymo , has apparently prompted nothing but profound silence among the right wing press – during a period in which balanced reporting rules are supposed to apply - had it been Corbyn it would have been headline news for a week
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: idler on November 10, 2019, 09:30:41 pm
Johnson’s incompetence , whilst looking dressed like he had had a fight with a Flymo , has apparently prompted nothing but profound silence among the right wing press – during a period in which balanced reporting rules are supposed to apply - had it been Corbyn it would have been headline news for a week
Remember Michael Foot getting stick over his appearance?
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 10, 2019, 09:34:18 pm
Michael Foot was a leg end.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 10, 2019, 09:46:20 pm
Johnson’s incompetence , whilst looking dressed like he had had a fight with a Flymo , has apparently prompted nothing but profound silence among the right wing press – during a period in which balanced reporting rules are supposed to apply - had it been Corbyn it would have been headline news for a week
Remember Michael Foot getting stick over his appearance?

Aye. That coat he had bought from Harrods, that the Tory press said was a donkey jacket.

And still now, 36 years later, there's still gullible folk in the internet regularly saying Foot went to the Cenotaph in a donkey jacket.

Lies tend to stick when no-one counters them.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 10, 2019, 10:01:26 pm
Johnson’s incompetence , whilst looking dressed like he had had a fight with a Flymo , has apparently prompted nothing but profound silence among the right wing press – during a period in which balanced reporting rules are supposed to apply - had it been Corbyn it would have been headline news for a week
Remember Michael Foot getting stick over his appearance?

You can't polish a turd, even if you go against your principles and buy stuff from a place for the financially well-off like Harrods.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 10, 2019, 10:21:58 pm
That'll be the Michael Foot who worked tirelessly through the 1930s to get Britain to oppose Hitler, when the Tory party were all-in on Appeasement.

A turd...
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 10, 2019, 11:15:49 pm
That's the one, the scruffy-looking bugger who patronised the poor by thinking he'd be more appealing to them by dressing like them - except he got his stuff from Harrods. The one who 40 years later brought a snowflake to claim that describing his dress sense as polishing a turd despite its expense as a personal insult that shouldn't be bestowed on someone who was against Hitler!

That's why I could never be on the same side as anybody with such views.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: SydneyRover on November 10, 2019, 11:40:59 pm
Johnson’s incompetence , whilst looking dressed like he had had a fight with a Flymo , has apparently prompted nothing but profound silence among the right wing press – during a period in which balanced reporting rules are supposed to apply - had it been Corbyn it would have been headline news for a week
Remember Michael Foot getting stick over his appearance?

You can't polish a turd, even if you go against your principles and buy stuff from a place for the financially well-off like Harrods.

Pray tell us more of these 'principles' of which you speak so fondly squire.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: IDM on November 11, 2019, 07:45:13 am
Johnson’s incompetence , whilst looking dressed like he had had a fight with a Flymo , has apparently prompted nothing but profound silence among the right wing press – during a period in which balanced reporting rules are supposed to apply - had it been Corbyn it would have been headline news for a week
Remember Michael Foot getting stick over his appearance?

You can't polish a turd

Johnson seems to be giving it a good go..
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: DonnyOsmond on November 11, 2019, 08:00:36 am
People of Doncaster are pissed off that the leader of the opposition came to our town while it was flooded over going to the Albert Hall but he was still at the Cenotaph. The leader of this country hasn't even shown his face hear and is commended.

I guess people like the last 9 years then. Here's to 5 more years of poverty in our region!
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: wing commander on November 11, 2019, 08:48:15 am
   As ex Royal Navy who has served in many a trouble spot and know people who died in Service. Threads and reports like this really annoy me.I don't really care how scruffy Boris or Jezza Look I really don't,nor do I care what rememberance services they went to and in what capacity..Yesterday is about honouring those who served and gave their future like Wilts good lady's relative..
  Not about cheap political point scoring from any side and those wanting to try and make cheap shots about it.I find it quite pathetic..
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 11, 2019, 08:51:36 am
Wing Co.

Agreed.
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: Donnywolf on November 11, 2019, 10:21:36 am
 :that: 100 per cent !
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: rtid88 on November 11, 2019, 12:25:19 pm
People of Doncaster are pissed off that the leader of the opposition came to our town while it was flooded over going to the Albert Hall but he was still at the Cenotaph. The leader of this country hasn't even shown his face hear and is commended.

I guess people like the last 9 years then. Here's to 5 more years of poverty in our region!

This says it all.....have no idea how anyone that lives in Doncaster could ever support a Tory government....
Title: Re: Remembrance Service Albert Hall
Post by: wilts rover on November 11, 2019, 05:51:48 pm
I agree fully with the WC but I do think this post from Tobias Ellwood (former Defence Minister under Theresa May) is worth sharing as a last word:

https://twitter.com/Tobias_Ellwood/status/1193916565969920001