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It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

"The Times" quotes senior civil servants suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn (70) is too old to be PM. They speak off the record, I expect. The Times' (and "Sun") owner, Rupert Murdoch, (aged 88) did not comment.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6547753/Jerry-Hall-62-hits-Barbados-beach-chic-halterneck-swimsuit.html

David Ainsworth ● 2692d7 Comments

As far as I am aware the lovely Jerry Hall is a private citizen who isn’t hoping to run our country.  She is a great role model for older women, IMO.  Rupert Murdoch has a business empire and is also not going to be running for P.M.Corbyn will be paid by the public purse if he is PM, we have a right to expect he is fit enough to run the country.

Martine Guy ● 2692d

I am not a Corbyn fan by any means, but this seems like a stitchup and a slur. Bit scarey actually, why are the civil service coming out and commenting when they are clearly not permitted to do so.

Bunny Payne ● 2692d

'Miss Hall, what attracted you to the billionaire Rupert Murdoch?''Lovely' she may be but waking up beside that every morning would be  enough to put me off my porridge, let alone anything else.

Lucille Grant ● 2692d

"Rupert Murdoch has a business empire and is also not going to be running for P.M."Indeed, why should he be a monkey, when he is already an organ-grinder?

David Ainsworth ● 2692d

Indeed!

Lucille Grant ● 2692d

That looks like a slur by the Times.  If any civil servants said that then they probably breached their contacts regarding the need for impartiality. As a bicycling, teetotal veggie Jeremy is probably fitter than many others of his age, and many younger than him. 

Michael Ixer ● 2692d

Well, he ought to be pretty fit. I mean, all that Sieg Heiling and goosestepping backwards and forwards must provide physical exercise. And you don't get to singlehandedly convert hundreds of thousands of people into Nazis without having a pretty sharp mind. And running Twitter, too. It makes yer think, doesn't it? Me neither.

David Ainsworth ● 2692d