headlines aren't about subtlety - they are sledgehammers
the story you are referring to is the justification for the headline but unlikely to be the reason they are running it
Leave to others to hazard why they are behaving like this
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rob, Tue 1 Dec 2015, 17:59,
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Today's headlines are an absolutely fantastic example of the British media doing what it does best.
For a start, you have to bear in mind that the editors know they're all a day behind the actual events and have to second-guess what's going to sell ahead of time.
So right now they're teetering right on the brink of whether they can get more mileage out of 'Loony Lefty Corbyn Will Lead Us All to Ruin' or whether to jump straight into 'How Did We Get Into This Calamitous War?' and today shows a marvellous mix of both.
But only the Metro seems to have nailed it dead centre with "Man Opposed To War To Blame For War".
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 1 Dec 2015, 18:09,
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Well, Diane Abbott, an ardent supporter of Corbyn
and also anti-war said today "The problem about a free vote is that it hands victory to Cameron on a plate." So even people on Corbyn's side appear to agree with that headline.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 1 Dec 2015, 19:31,
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No, the headline is trying to imply Corbyn is to blame for Cameron's bad choices
It's so insanely twisted right-wing agenda it doesn't know which way it's going. But then Cameron was the one having a hissy fit a few years back that he couldn't get agreement to bomb the other side in the same fucking war!
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 1 Dec 2015, 20:01,
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No.
I disagree. The headline makes clear that Corbyn's lack of leadership and authority means that Labour are in disarray and lacking in unity, thus Cameron will get his way due to the absence of a coherent opposition. Just as Diane Abbott said. He has no authority, and by extension nor do his whips.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 1 Dec 2015, 20:08,
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The government's foreign policy, as you say, is a joke
But it's the opposition's job to get in the way of bad decisions. Corbyn has proved he'd rather cling on to leadership than do the right thing. His one redeeming quality - that he was a man of conviction - has gone out the window at the first sniff of power.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Tue 1 Dec 2015, 20:45,
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