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Emyr
The tabloids and Toryrazzi are frothing at the mouth about Corbyn "snubbing" the Privy Council by not attending the first possible meeting and being "stripped" of the title Right Honourable. It's all being wonderfully blown out of proportion.
I think one of the things I like most of all about Corbyn is how worked up the Conservative media get over his apparent no fucks to give about this mostly irrelevant crap. Of course I think he should be attending the Privy Council meetings simply on the grounds that he shouldn't be excluding himself from conversations that are relevant to his position. The pomp and circumstance relevant to those meetings is entirely irrelevant.
I don't know if Corbyn will make it to the next election. If he doesn't then I hope that he will have a legacy of diminishing the importance that is placed on ceremony and certain appearance in politics and moving us towards a more grounded and practical approach to government and governance.