An Evening With... Jeremy Corbyn

posh*spice

BobQ wrote: »

I believe you! The competition is not that great I imagine.

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BobQ

Can someone explain

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/23/jeremy-corbyn-virgin-trains-disputes-claim-over-lack-of-seats

Branson says there were loads of UNreserved seats and post a photograph.

But surely the empty seats have "reserved"signs on them?


Also why would so many people reserve a seat if the trains usually have lots of spare seats? This is Kings Cross (start of journey). If you are joining a through train from Manchester to Bristol at Birmingham it makes a lot of sense to reserve a seat. But why do it at the start of the line?

kinger101

posh*spice wrote: »

Or!!! They could just reserve a seat :beer:

TBF, sometimes I don't reserve, particularly for an open return journey. But I know I then risk not having a seat, and that would be my fault entirely. It's only ever happened once though. If you're boarding at King's Cross, you just walk very quickly to whichever coach has the unreserved seats. It appears as though JC found this coach when he boarded, but choose to move somewhere where there we no free seats.

I don't believe Virgin are going to risk libel by doctoring the timestamps on their CCTV.

posh*spice

BobQ wrote: »

Can someone explain

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/23/jeremy-corbyn-virgin-trains-disputes-claim-over-lack-of-seats

Branson says there were loads of UNreserved seats and post a photograph.

But surely the empty seats have "reserved"signs on them?


Also why would so many people reserve a seat if the trains usually have lots of spare seats? This is Kings Cross (start of journey). If you are joining a through train from Manchester to Bristol at Birmingham it makes a lot of sense to reserve a seat. But why do it at the start of the line?

Everyone reserves a seat these days - you buy a ticket on line you reserve a seat - it's free- it costs nothing! Who diesn't reserve a seat !!!!!!!

kinger101

BobQ wrote: »

Can someone explain

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/23/jeremy-corbyn-virgin-trains-disputes-claim-over-lack-of-seats

Branson says there were loads of UNreserved seats and post a photograph.

But surely the empty seats have "reserved"signs on them?


Also why would so many people reserve a seat if the trains usually have lots of spare seats? This is Kings Cross (start of journey). If you are joining a through train from Manchester to Bristol at Birmingham it makes a lot of sense to reserve a seat. But why do it at the start of the line?

There's usually unreserved seats on all journeys, but you don't necessarily know where they are. So no booking means you have to search for them. Easy for the first one or two minutes of boarding, chaos after as the aisles jam with people.

Seat reservations are mandatory on all the advanced purchase fares anyway, so many are reserved by default.

posh*spice

kinger101 wrote: »

TBF, sometimes I don't reserve, particularly for an open return journey. But I know I then risk not having a seat, and that would be my fault entirely. It's only ever happened once though. If you're boarding at King's Cross, you just walk very quickly to whichever coach has the unreserved seats. It appears as though JC found this coach when he boarded, but choose to move somewhere where there we no free seats.

I don't believe Virgin are going to risk libel by doctoring the timestamps on their CCTV.

In what world do people just expect to walk on to an airplane and get a seat? Yet JC expects trains to be run like this?! The guy's a !!!!.

I expect trsins to be run with spare capacity just in case my old saggy !!!! gets on and needs to sit down

kinger101

posh*spice wrote: »

In what world do people just expect to walk on to an airplane and get a seat? Yet JC expects trains to be run like this?! The guy's a !!!!.

I expect trsins to be run with spare capacity just in case my old saggy !!!! gets on and needs to sit down

With the most expensive airline tickets, you can actually do precisely that. You will be allocated a seat when you check in. If the flight is full, someone else gets bumped, though they usually look for volunteers first (who get compensated).

But I agree with trains, particularly on mainline services. They need to be running as close to 100% full as possible.

ruggedtoast

posh*spice wrote: »

In what world do people just expect to walk on to an airplane and get a seat? Yet JC expects trains to be run like this?! The guy's a !!!!.

I expect trsins to be run with spare capacity just in case my old saggy !!!! gets on and needs to sit down

Are you feeling OK?

Have a lie down.

ruggedtoast

The MSM really have reached the bottom of the barrel now. Tory sleaze, donor backhanders, graft, Saudi arms, children dying in Calais trying to get to England. No, what's important apparently for the mighty investigative journalists of Fleet Street is Jeremy's train journey.

Except all they've uncovered is a load of Joe Schmos who were also on the train, had no seat, and agree with him.

Who like him also walked past the reserved seats, found the usual chaos before departure and gave up hunting pointlessly for a spare seat.

Then neoliberal mountebank Branson becomes appalled at the prospect of Corbynism reaching his train so attempts to quarantine JC to First. Corbyn refuses to leave the people who are his lifeblood so they upgrade a family and let JC sit in their seats.

This story has delivered twice for Corbyn now. Doubtless tomorrow it'll make breakfast TV. "I sat next to Jeremy Corbyn". Sharon from Staines tells all from the Good Morning Britain Sofa.

Really I just find this marvelous. Millions of people have been Corbynised and every week they are Corbynising more. It's like the Scottish referendum or Brexit but in this case the Tories and their hopeless propaganda machine has got four more entire years to completely fck it up and deliver the exact opposite of what they want.

I wonder what JC will do with the carpets in Number 10.

westernpromise

What's the strategy to take Crewe & Nantwich or Worcester South, Toastie? Your boys were ~18 points behind in those seats in 2015, you've gone backwards since, and you need to take seats like those just to equalise with the Tories. You'll need to take 50 more to get a majority. How's it looking? How are you going to take Yeovil with Khorbiyn's message of hate and terrorist felching?