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Jeremy Corbyn's Jacket

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We have reached that time of year again when the focus of our "free" press has shifted once more to Jeremy Corbyn. What has he done wrong this time? Well... That's right. He's worn a rain jacket. On a rainy Armistice Day. The absolute bastard. Oh and apparently his poppy wasn't big enough either. "hE's GoT nO rEsPeKt!", wail the churlish commentariat, "hE cAn AfFoRd A pRoPeR cOaT!". Seriously, check out some of the comments on the Telegraph article for example; in their eyes Corbyn is clearly a disrespectful hypocrite who hates Britain, apparently like all lefties, because he wears a plain rain jacket and what looks like a small poppy badge instead of splurging his huge wealth on a, I don't know, whatever the Lamborghini equivalent of a rain-jacket is. There's a beautiful irony here in that on one hand you've got people claiming that Corbyn doesn't represent the working class and then on the other,  the exact same