An Evening With... Jeremy Corbyn

Shakethedisease

ruggedtoast wrote: »

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.

Well what can one possibly say except...



Oh and no, if the Scottish ref and Salmond/Sturgeon is anything to go by, they'll save the best till last. Expect a damning memo based on 'something something Gaddfi' or something to appear in the Telegraph soon. This stuff is always timed and there's weeks to go yet.

fatbeetle

Of course if Jezza wanted to be true to the current Labour membership who support him, he should have joined them in the first class compartment.

He could always have made it more realistic by posting on twitter about how guilty they all feel.

Shakethedisease

Oh Owen..

"WHERE IS YOUR RECORDING!! [of Owen Smith calling Jeremy Corbyn a lunatic]" they demand. Well, it's here.

https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/768200189240807425?lang=en-gb

Parliamentary Sketch Writer and Political Correspondent at the @independent

Out,_Vile_Jelly

posh*spice wrote: »

Who gets on a train and doesnt reserve a seat these days? Not exactly hard is it?

You can't reserve seats on South West Trains. It's not universal across the train companies.

I regularly book open returns for my researchers to give them flexibility in case meetings overrun. Booking a particular train is cheaper, but you're committed to that timing which isn't always practical.

westernpromise

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Well what can one possibly say except...



Oh and no, if the Scottish ref and Salmond/Sturgeon is anything to go by, they'll save the best till last. Expect a damning memo based on 'something something Gaddfi' or something to appear in the Telegraph soon. This stuff is always timed and there's weeks to go yet.

So Branson was photographed with a prime minister. So? And?

CLAPTON

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

You can't reserve seats on South West Trains. It's not universal across the train companies.

I regularly book open returns for my researchers to give them flexibility in case meetings overrun. Booking a particular train is cheaper, but you're committed to that timing which isn't always practical.

It seems the SW Trains website allows seat reservation.

seven-day-weekend

I think what has happened is that Corbyn and his wife wanted to sait together so ignored the vacant seats......but then did something he swore he'd never do and spun the spin about our 'overcrowded trains'...who wants trains to run half empty anyway?

daveyjp

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Oh Owen..

https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/768200189240807425?lang=en-gb

Parliamentary Sketch Writer and Political Correspondent at the @independent

Close, but no cigar Mr Independent reporter. I didn't here the words Jeremy Corbyn in the clip.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

CLAPTON wrote: »

It seems the SW Trains website allows seat reservation.

Where does their site say they do seat reservations? National Rail lists the train operators and their advance purchase/reservation policies here: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_types/44703.aspx

If you go through a ticket site like RedSpottedHanky or thetrainline.com it will let you tick the "reserve seats" option, but when you receive your tickets it will just say "Coach X Seat X" and there will be no reservations on the train. I know this as I travel from London to Bournemouth to visit my evil baby boomer parents fairly regularly.

N1AK

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Or Virgin staff 'shuffling people about' embarrassed that the Leader of the Opposition was sitting on the floor more like. Bet they wouldn't give a hoot otherwise.

Well maybe he felt that plonking his bum down on any seat ( if there indeed were any ) when there was a mother holding a one year old baby and a 6 year old child having to make do with the floor, and probably many like her.... wouldn't be a very nice thing to do. I mean he is 67, but one has to have some sense of British fair play after all.

The media would be just as up in arms if Corbyn had elbowed folks like the above aside and sat himself down first surely ? He observed in his interview that the train in question was absolutely rammed. As far as I can tell, and from other passengers accounts he was 100% correct on that particular observation regardless of when he himself did get to sit on an actual seat.

No they wouldn't; it's the same ridiculous denial of reality that constantly flows from Corbyn supporters. There would have been no mention of Jeremy's train journey at all if he hadn't tried to make a publicity stunt out of it.

Why would the original story about his man of the people stunt be so widely covered if this deluded conspiracy theory about the media hating him and conspiring to undermine him was true.