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norose4 Mon 26-Jun-17 09:56:28

Do we think Theresa May would have been ridiculed if she had attended Glastonbury as Jeremy Corbyn did ?

whitewave Mon 26-Jun-17 10:00:51

Oh dear!!sad

hildajenniJ Mon 26-Jun-17 10:03:10

She may well have been, as she was abused at the Armed Forces Day event in Liverpool, but at least she attended and supported our troops. Jeremy Corbyn, on the other hand, shirked that responsibility, preferring to go to Glastonbury to woo the young and impressionable.

mcem Mon 26-Jun-17 10:04:59

Hands up if you feel we should just blank this now rather than wait for the nastiness to kick and the thread to be deleted.✋✋

whitewave Mon 26-Jun-17 10:10:57

??????????????????????????

Please not a repeat of yesterday!!

norose4 Mon 26-Jun-17 10:12:08

What happened yesterday? I have obviously missed something

mcem Mon 26-Jun-17 10:14:31

Well rose you won't catch it now. It became utterly disgusting and GNHQ deleted it.
Thank you GNHQ - good call!

Lazigirl Mon 26-Jun-17 10:19:00

✋ I don't believe that it represented most who post on this site.

norose4 Mon 26-Jun-17 10:24:48

Apologies if I've started a thread similar to yesterday's deleted one. I had no idea. The child in me wishes I'd seen it, but sounds like it became pretty nasty ,such a shame when it goes that way ,do you think we grans are more fiesty than the young ones!!

whitewave Mon 26-Jun-17 10:47:10

Not feisty. Feisty is good.

Plain bloody nasty is bad

Rigby46 Mon 26-Jun-17 10:53:20

mcem be careful before you are accused of incitement to bullying. Lazigirl it's representative of a group,of vociferous posters so proportionately a large number of posts. And OP it's a stupid hypothetical question whose purpose I can only guess at ( yes right) and I for one am completely going to blank it

norose4 Mon 26-Jun-17 11:21:43

Stupid -possibly , Hypothetical - possibly (so are the many not the few) guess at nothing to guess at
You Rigby :rude, possibly arrogant definitely
No wonder it all goes to pot on here, perhaps we should be required to sit a Rigby test paper before being allowed to comment.
It is supposed to be a discussion forum , but by the time is thread gets to about the sixth or seventh comment it had deteriorated into childish insults about intelligence er. You may find post stupid & maybe it is , but that is for you to join in or not there is no need to post anything if you don't like it. Once again the main allegedly stupid comment is dismissed to be replaced by pettiness. ?

Rigby46 Mon 26-Jun-17 11:29:40

norose you could have posted on the existing Glastonbury thread. Did you really miss all the trouble yesterday - it was truly vile and even if I jumped to conclusions about your motivation for starting it ( and I'm sorry for that) it's understandable that myself ( and some others) just saw what would happen with this. And it did, within 7 minutes it was the same old same old JC mindless bashing - which also of course was a bashing the young post as well.

norose4 Mon 26-Jun-17 11:39:01

I did not see any of yesterday's deleted thread. I sort of wish I had, but sad to hear it ended so badly. I am not bashing JC or TM as such, it just occurred to me that TM would most likely to have been open to ridicule if she had attended Glastonbury & whereas JC would be applauded as indeed he was, therin lies the hypocrisy & inverted snobbery . I am not actually for either of them & there isn't much else to choose from so it's going to be a rough ride for us all for awhile. But nothing compared to those poor people who have lost their home in the terrible terrible fire, it just saddens me that we are all so petty at time. Over & out

Elrel Mon 26-Jun-17 11:40:28

Norose, I think your question is rhetorical so shan't answer.

Rigby46 Mon 26-Jun-17 11:43:10

norose you provided a thread that would lead to JC bashing - you've got a perfect right to do that but others have a perfect right to be absolutely fed up to the back teeth with the relentless nature of it. Anyway, there's nothing further to say

norose4 Mon 26-Jun-17 11:43:53

Sorry have to smile ,you just did?To be serious thought having missed a couple of days & not having joined in every thread it seem I have doubled up on subjects, obviously I am not completed my Gransnet education & wont be bothering to either it appears there are 3 or 4 of you who dictate how it is run , so as they say I'm out

devongirl Mon 26-Jun-17 11:56:09

Great, maybe GNHQ will delete this thread now

yggdrasil Mon 26-Jun-17 13:52:49

It may have been a rhetorical question, but the date of Glastonbury has been fixed for longer than the Armed Forces Parades. And Jeremy had been invited by Michael Eavis himself.

rosesarered Mon 26-Jun-17 14:29:02

I think the plug should have been pulled on the Glasto thread ( or rather the Oh Jeremy Corbyn as it was called) but not because anybody disparaged Corbyn (every right to do that) but all the personal snide and childish comments that were directed at posters.
If posters limit themselves to talking about politicians of all kinds and not each other, it would be a good thing.
To answer the OP, I think music events, even Glastonbury, would be a lot better just concentrating on the music.What we had was Corbyn saying he will be PM in six months and McDonnell, inciting the crowd ( or trying to, weak applause) by saying that residents of the fire had been murdered.

Rigby46 Mon 26-Jun-17 14:52:24

Disparaging ? Bloody libellous In some instances but of course the right wing only think the law should apply to people like themselves . And you clearly know nothing about the history of Glastonbury else you wouldn't make such a vacuous point about festivals concentrating on the music.

rosesarered Mon 26-Jun-17 14:56:12

You see Rigby making angry and personal posts is exactly why the other thread went downhill. It seems that some are just incapable of being civil.....ever.

Elegran Mon 26-Jun-17 14:58:54

The answer to the OP (would Theresa May have been ridiculed had she gone to Glastonbury?) is yes of course she would. A politician of mature years with an uncertain majority, or one in opposition, who goes to a music festival like Glastonbury to whip up support among the young, is bound to become the butt of jokes suggesting which oldie numbers they could perform and so on. Surely they expect it?

rosesarered Mon 26-Jun-17 15:01:39

grin...... you would think so.

Ana Mon 26-Jun-17 15:04:53

Well, when you've paid £238 for your ticket you expecct to be entertained, don't you? grin