European Railroad Discussion > UK Labor Party Leader Corbyn or Virgin Trains-Who Do You Believe?

UK Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn rode Virgin Trains and filmed video of him sitting on the floor, unable to get a seat.

Virgin Trains has CCTV that shows Corbyn and team walking past empty seats.

Who do you believe?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37167700



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/23/16 18:23 by knotch8.

Corbyn is trying very, very hard to keep his job. It's just another Corbyn publicity play.

PHall Wrote:
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> Corbyn is trying very, very hard to keep his job.
> It's just another Corbyn publicity play.

He's an eccentric loony who wants to take the railways back into public ownership so he can take the UK into a communist utopia where we all live very happily alongside our fellow comrades. So it fitted his agenda to pretend the trains are awful now, rather than being fantastically improved since the last time they were nationalised back in the 90's, when they were a national laughing stock.
He is quite close to annihilating the labour party as the only current semi-viable opposition party also. 

exhaustED Wrote:
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> PHall Wrote:
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> > Corbyn is trying very, very hard to keep his
> job.
> > It's just another Corbyn publicity play.
>
> He's an eccentric loony who wants to take the
> railways back into public ownership so he can take
> the UK into a communist utopia where we all live
> very happily alongside our fellow comrades. So it
> fitted his agenda to pretend the trains are awful
> now, rather than being fantastically improved
> since the last time they were nationalised back in
> the 90's, when they were a national laughing
> stock.
> He is quite close to annihilating the labour party
> as the only current semi-viable opposition party
> also. 

I'm just waiting for the rest of the party to finally get tired of him and show him the door.
But he seems to have more lives then a housecat. (9)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/26/16 11:00 by PHall.

I don't really care who I believe.

What I think this shows is how badly the industry (not just Virgin) has educated their customers how to use trains.   How many people know how to read those seat reservation slips?   They simply assume the slip means "don't sit here".   What it actually means is "this seat is reserved for one, or more, portions of the journey this train makes and may be currently available".   Corbyn may well know and simply wanted to make a point but most people don't.