Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

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Fucking hell does anyone else remember real political scandals like the Dodgy Dossier, and Brexit NHS lies? Or A Tory Chancellor snorting lines of coke with a Dominatrix?

To be fair the most dodgy politician I remember was John Stonehouse, mostly due to my brother-in-law pushing me to the floor so he could stab the radio with a carving knife during a news bulletin about Stonehouse.
People were a lot more passionate about politics back then!

 

[Diamond]

Why had his team not reserved their seats?

Presumably they knew weeks ago that they would need to take that train.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Why had his team not reserved their seats?

Presumably they knew weeks ago that they would need to take that train.

Probably part of a plan to have to sit on the floor. What a conniving bastard that Corbyn is.

 

[two sheds]

The latest in Traingate:

Passengers dispute Virgin Trains' claims about Jeremy Corbyn 'sitting on floor' video

The bizarre row over whether Jeremy Corbyn had to sit on the floor of a Virgin train has taken a new twist as passengers on the service dispute the company’s version of events.

I think we're going to find he Paintshopped those people into those corridors.

 

[8den]

Why had his team not reserved their seats?

Presumably they knew weeks ago that they would need to take that train.

Good fuck you've know idea how politics works. Even if the meeting was scheduled weeks in advance, they'd have no idea what time they'd arrive or leave at.

 

[Diamond]

Good fuck you've know idea how politics works. Even if the meeting was scheduled weeks in advance, they'd have no idea what time they'd arrive or leave at.

Really?

Yep, I've no idea how these hustings work so if you know better then fine but I find it a bit surprising that the only thing that they would have had to organise around is a date and a place, preventing them from reserving seats.

It all smacks a bit of incompetence being cynically spun.

 

[Diamond]

Will be fascinating to see how Corbyn responds anyway.

Wasn't he supposed to be moving things away from PR stunts and onto substance?

Odd way to do it...

 

[inva]

Really?

Yep, I've no idea how these hustings work so if you know better then fine but I find it a bit surprising that the only thing that they would have had to organise around is a date and a place, preventing them from reserving seats.

It all smacks a bit of incompetence being cynically spun.

'Jeremy' was probably the only passenger anyway.

 

[Sprocket.]

'Jeremy' was probably the only passenger anyway.

On the last train to Wankin Panda!

 

[inva]

On the last train to Wankin Panda!

they've got it on ITV news in a second, I just hope we'll finally get some answers

 

[Buckaroo]

Really?

Yep, I've no idea how these hustings work so if you know better then fine but I find it a bit surprising that the only thing that they would have had to organise around is a date and a place, preventing them from reserving seats.

It all smacks a bit of incompetence being cynically spun.

If it was being cynically spun it wouldn't be incompetence at booking a train ticket it would be a deliberate PR stunt. Make your mind up.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Will be fascinating to see how Corbyn responds anyway.

Wasn't he supposed to be moving things away from PR stunts and onto substance?

Odd way to do it...

Why should he respond to what is clearly another shitty smear? As for PR stunts, when they boarded there were no seats available for all of them to sit, so he opted for the floor for approx 45 mins, until train staff managed to shuffle people around so he could sit with colleagues. It's all over Twitter now by a female passenger who happened to witness it.

 

[xenon]

This is so fucking pathetic and tedious (the news/twitterati focus)

 

[YouSir]

Really?

Yep, I've no idea how these hustings work so if you know better then fine but I find it a bit surprising that the only thing that they would have had to organise around is a date and a place, preventing them from reserving seats.

It all smacks a bit of incompetence being cynically spun.

They had seats reserved, Corbyn got talking to a member of the public and they missed the original train.

 

[Diamond]

If it was being cynically spun it wouldn't be incompetence at booking a train ticket it would be a deliberate PR stunt. Make your mind up.

Ok - I'll step through this possible narrative:

Corbyn team forget to reserve a number of seats (5+?) on busy train to known meeting.

End up having to make do - decide to ignore available seats and/or split up (as normal passengers would do) and instead turn an inconvenient cock-up into a PR op, which unfortunately doesn't quite stack up when everything comes out in the wash.

 

[8den]

Really?

Yep, I've no idea how these hustings work so if you know better then fine but I find it a bit surprising that the only thing that they would have had to organise around is a date and a place, preventing them from reserving seats.

It all smacks a bit of incompetence being cynically spun.

Or they knew there was no point in booking seats, as Corbyn could be delayed BECAUSE HE'S THE LEADER OF NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

This is so fucking pathetic and tedious (the news/twitterati focus)

At least Twitter gets to the truth, unlike the media spin

 

[YouSir]

Will be fascinating to see how Corbyn responds anyway.

Wasn't he supposed to be moving things away from PR stunts and onto substance?

Odd way to do it...

In no way will this ever, ever be fascinating to anyone. Ever.

Another bullshit story amongst a great many.

 

[8den]

They had seats reserved, Corbyn got talking to a member of the public and they missed the original train.

This, considering Corbyn's habit of stopping for a chat, if I was part of his team, I'd give up trying to get him anywhere on time.

 

[Diamond]

They had seats reserved, Corbyn got talking to a member of the public and they missed the original train.

Ok - so they cocked up by missing their train and their reserved seats so decided to manufacture a PR op out of it instead...

Which is actually even more cynical when you think about it - had seats but too incompetent to claim them on first train so booted onto another train, inconveniencing folk on the first train who wouldn't know whether to take reserved seats or not and folk on the second train where demand for seats would have increased - cue PR op.

 

[xenon]

Ok - I'll step through this possible narrative:

Corbyn team forget to reserve a number of seats (5+?) on busy train to known meeting.

End up having to make do - decide to ignore available seats and/or split up (as normal passengers would do) and instead turn an inconvenient cock-up into a PR op, which unfortunately doesn't quite stack up when everything comes out in the wash.

You boring cunt.

 

[teqniq]

Ok - so they cocked up by missing their train and their reserved seats so decided to manufacture a PR op out of it instead...

Which is actually even more cynical when you think about it - had seats but too incompetent to claim them on first train so booted onto another train, inconveniencing folk on the first train who wouldn't know whether to take reserved seats or not and folk on the second train where demand for seats would have increased - cue PR op.

Lots of jumping to conclusions going on there.

 

[two sheds]

Ok - so they cocked up by missing their train and their reserved seats so decided to manufacture a PR op out of it instead...

Which is actually even more cynical when you think about it - had seats but too incompetent to claim them on first train so booted onto another train, inconveniencing folk on the first train who wouldn't know whether to take reserved seats or not and folk on the second train where demand for seats would have increased - cue PR op.

How important would this be compared to, say, stopping the privatization of the NHS?

 

[YouSir]

You boring cunt.

Thank you. Concise and to the point.

 

[YouSir]

How important would this be compared to, say, stopping the privatization of the NHS?

Six NHSs out of ten.

 

[8den]

Ok - so they cocked up by missing their train and their reserved seats so decided to manufacture a PR op out of it instead...

Which is actually even more cynical when you think about it - had seats but too incompetent to claim them on first train so booted onto another train, inconveniencing folk on the first train who wouldn't know whether to take reserved seats or not and folk on the second train where demand for seats would have increased - cue PR op.

Yes you're absolutely right, realising they missed the train, Corbyn's elite black OPs team staged an elaborate photo op, that destroyed the reputation of innocent Virgin trains.

I'd fucking love to be a right wing conspiracy nutjob, their world is so much more complicated and fun.

 

[DotCommunist]

virtue signalling obvs, thats the

Fuck him and the balloon he rode into town on.

crashed

 

[Diamond]

How important would this be compared to, say, stopping the privatization of the NHS?

It goes, either way, directly to his personal credibility.

This looks a lot like Jeremy Corbyn doing the kind of stuff that Jeremy Corbyn apparently never does.

 

[Diamond]

Yes you're absolutely right, realising they missed the train, Corbyn's elite black OPs team staged an elaborate photo op, that destroyed the reputation of innocent Virgin trains.

I'd fucking love to be a right wing conspiracy nutjob, their world is so much more complicated and fun.

Or how about they decided to make the best of a bad situation?

 

[Combustible]

This looks a lot like Jeremy Corbyn doing the kind of stuff that Jeremy Corbyn apparently never does.

What? Missing trains?