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Jeremy Corbyn has been branded a liar by Virgin as he told porkies in his video.
Virgin challenges Jeremy Corbyn train footage - BBC News
Please keep an eye out for him as he could be on a train near you.
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Jeremy Corbyn
I wonder how he swill spin his reply to that one!!
Corbyn was setting an example to other politicians .
The seats on trains are reserved for people who work for a living .
I recognise that face, he's a multinicker on here, goes by the name of Fagin, the pickpocketer.Quote:
Originally Posted by can123
I don't know much about this story, but would like to add: Branson is a class A kunt...
He should resign, the lying twat.
Please, all politicians are liers.
Apparently he isn't lying. When first got on the train he couldn't find a seat that wasn't reserved. And he did sit on the floor. He was offered an upgrade to 1st class but refused it. A conductor then upgraded a family, leaving empty seats for Corbyn and his mates to sit on.
Hard to believe all the fuss they're making out of this.
Folk have been complaining for ages about the lack of seats
Not just on peak hours but on long journeys also.
Any bs news but not the real news.
wasn't it his spin doctors who first tried to get political mileage from it ? I doubt he thought of the tweetQuote:
Originally Posted by billy the kid
The thing is that Corbyn wants to re-nationalize the railways. Branson doesn't want that to happen, so...............
The blokes a c u n t and on the mad mullahs payroll.
Fucking terrorist.
Is strange though that this non event gets more media coverage than politicians fiddling expenses and fucking kids.
It's not a non-event. It is a blatant example of a politician lying and trying to take the piss out of the general public. He is a disgusting little turd who associates with terrorists, has said he is unwilling to use nuclear weapons and would not act to defend another NATO partner if that country was attacked. He is a piece of shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
Better than that other piece of shit Owen Smith :)Quote:
Originally Posted by can123
Labour MPs have written to the labour members in their ward to encourage them to vote for Owen Smith.
You said you don't mind being lied to, in the Brexit thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by can123
here here.Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
^Demonstrably utter nonsense.
For one, the expenses fiddling scandal received massive media coverage for months.
This is the truth of the matter, right here...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pragmatic
Has said that he won't Brexit because the voters were wrong. Wants to have another vote to get the answer he wants; sums up who he works for (bankers, eurocrats, but not the people who elected him).Quote:
Originally Posted by billy the kid
It seems that Virgin lied.
The seats were reserved, but apparently you can sit in a reserved seat if you speak to a conductor; and a seat was found for him after a conductor moved folks into first class, so that a seat (a taken seat...) was now available. So, Virgin and Branson spin lies yet again; I suppose making record profits while providing a shite service is a money-spinner they wanna keep hold of...
No, these seats in carriage 'H' when he boards are clearly free.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
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He walks past them to carriage 'F' where it seems all the free seats are reserved then he sits on the floor to do his little turn, before returning to carriage 'H' to take up one of the empty seats he had previously walked past.
Did you look at the link?
^ you and I, Cyrille, from that picture, simply do not know.
Apparently, the timings of pictures coming from Virgin is way out of sync with the timescale of Corbyn's events and claims. It is telling that Virgin have admitted that Corbyn was seated AFTER they moved a family into first class to free up seats - if those seats in the picture above were available at the time then they would have simply seated him there - but they didn't because they weren't...
Edited to add this link, but I've seen others where Virgin tell the exact same story:
Confronted about the row, Corbyn repeated the explanation his camp gave on Tuesday night, saying: “I boarded a crowded train with a group of colleagues; we journeyed through the train looking for places; there wasn’t a place for all of us to sit down, and so for 40 minutes or so we remained on the floor of the train, in the vestibule.” He explained that a sympathetic train manager later found seats for him and his team, including his wife, by upgrading other passengers.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...leadership-bid
It's a story because all Inter City travellers have an angle on seat reservations.
Sit on a reserved seat at your peril. Everyone on board those packed trains is on edge and primed for a confrontation/quarrel.
If the train operators had any balls they'd say one of the conditions of passage was that only passengers with reservations could get on board, but then that would screw up their revenue from people who end up riding shotgun.
ps Not all carriages have paper reservation labels on seat backs, some have small overhead electronic reservation signs
Well no, Betty. It's just that you apparently can't recognise an unoccupied, unreserved seat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
Reserved...
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Unreserved...
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I see many admirable things about Corbyn's leadership, but this silly stunt was clearly very badly thought out and has rebounded on him quite amusingly.
It seems very unlikely to me that Richard Branson would risk egg on his face from fucking around with the timings of these pictures.
But that was after he had walked past them when they were empty. The train may well have been full by the time he'd filmed his little fiction, but that does not mean he did not concoct the story initially.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
That picture tells you nothing.
The fact remain that Corbyn and Virgin now have the same story: there were not enough empty seats; another family was moved into first class to free up space for Corbyn's group to sit down. End of.
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
Looks like he concocted a story for convenience.
Even if the train filled up later he was still lying at the time.
It would mean nothing if it were done by an ordinary TV crew of course, but the leader of the opposition getting caught out lying is definitely a story.
:smileylaughing:
You & I simply do not know, we were not there... The fact that Virgin have now changed their story to parallel Corbyn's while Corbyn's story has stayed the same throughout should indicate something to you...
If you think Virgins story, backed up by video, is the same as Corbyn's then you probably qualify for priority seating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
some of these seats had bags on them which appeared to belong to people who had gone to the toilet.
Virgin challenges Jeremy Corbyn train footage - BBC News
As I've said several times, those pictures show nothing; you simply cannot tell from that still whether the seats are available or not...
Many folks who were on the train also said it was rammed, I don't know why folks would question that. UK trains are expensive and over-crowded, it's hard to get a seat, and virtually impossible to get a seat during peak times unless you have booked well ahead.
Laughable how people can even give a fuck about this. Politics for plebs.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
You might as well say someone faking a video of a lion eating Theresa May shouldn't be questioned because lions do eat people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
Renationalizing the railways is quite a serious political issue, imho.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
(& Cyrille, calm down with the hyperbole... :))
The leader of the opposition making himself look rather silly is a news story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
If it doesn't interest you then feel free to focus your piercing intellect elsewhere...how about a thread on who does the smelliest farts?
I'm not talking about you Betty. I think Corbyn is a great bloke and his attitude reflects the grass roots socialism that can be found in abundance in the UK if one is able to look further than the propaganda peddled by the Establishment media machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
:D ....Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
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Originally Posted by Neo
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Originally Posted by cyrille
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Originally Posted by cyrille
Nice one Betty and Neo, :).
Cyrille.
Carriages either have paper reservation tickets on the seatback or digital ones overhead. Not all carriages are the same in the UK