Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 11877043)

Oops

Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 11877029)

To be fair, I don't think there's any doubt the tory MP knew who Corbyn was. He was supplying the punchline to the joke Corbyn couldn't have set up better if he was a paid straight-man... "I spent a few days in Brussels talking to European socialist leaders and they asked me:" - and then a pause just long enough for the question to be inserted by a heckler. I'd like to think Andy Burnham's smirk was in appreciation of a good joke well played, but in his case it's more likely that he was smiling at his own party leader's ineptitude.

Corbyn is good at many things, but repartee in the cut & thrust of the Commons has never been a strength. A quick-witted boor will, sadly, always outplay an intellectually rigorous but considered response.

Originally Posted by jimf (Post 11877274)

His response to the heckler was a rather lame "Nooooooo Nooooooooo".

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 11877312)

Would you rather he behave like the other rabble rousers?

Originally Posted by jimf (Post 11877323)

Obviously none of them were rabble rousers in the slightest.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 11877325)

I meant politicians in general. You know, the baying, squawking pack of hyenas we usually see.