More of the same old bollocks again.
If only one of them could come up with a plausible argument.
Who’s turn is it next?
He’s taken a softer line than many, but he fails to realise a couple of things.
Whether he likes it or not, Khan pulled votes because Corbyn was leader. I don’t think he realises that the people that have joined the Labour Party recently are there for Corbyn’s brand of politics too.
Shame. Tainted the relationship moving forward.
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Would be interesting to see how many new members joined in London, between Corbyn being announced as a leadership candidate and the vote for Mayor.
Is the tactic now for all of them to say they won’t work with him if he wins again, therefore neutralising the parties ability to oppose? Hard-line scare tactics aimed at the membership, that just highlights the contempt they hold for the membership and electorate.
This is a very good read. Makes some excellent points that Smith and the PLP should maybe think about. I some how doubt they will.
It looks like we’re on the “regional powers”. Kezia Dugdale, leader of Scottish Labour, and surely no-one to be talking about electoral success, has come out in support of Smith a day after Khan did the same.
The ridiculous thing is that they must know Smith is never going to chime with voters. They can see he’s a paper tiger. There is no way he’ll believe in any of the things he says he does now in the unlikely event that he triumphs at an election.
So we’re back to what we always had. One or two more working relationships forever tainted. Smith won’t be elected leader, but the Labour Party will be just a little bit more ungovernable because of these superfluous announcements.
As I Live overseas I dont really get to see a lot of UK politics live, but they had Khan on during lunch on Test Match Special. To me he actually made a lot of sense, But what his agenda with Corbyn or the rest of the Labour party is I do not have a clue.
I live in the UK and don’t watch broadcast news.
It’s probably why I’m so informed 
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So, he fucked up that train thing, then.
Now don’t be mean. He couldn’t sit on any of the empty seats he walked by because people had their bags on them and he didn’t have the wit to ask them to move them.
Originally posted by @CB-Saint
Originally posted by @TheCholulaKid
So, he fucked up that train thing, then.
Now don’t be mean. He couldn’t sit on any of the empty seats he walked by because people had their bags on them and he didn’t have the wit to ask them to move them.
Are you suggesting that the train service provided by private trainline operators in Britain is acceptable particularly considering the subsidies that go to these companies?
Do you have all the facts in this case or do you in fact have a few ambiguous photos and the unbiased words of disgusting, exploitative, cretinous massively profitable corporation who’s position as a scrounger from the state would likely be threatened should Corbyn come to power?
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Fwiw everyone down here is pmsl at #train gate.
Memo to JC do not employ MBA interns
Early yet, TCK. Not only is the Independent carrying a story backing up Corbyn’s account, the Twitter brigade is getting onto the provenance of those images.
It’s not just the conflict of interests between the boss of one of Britain’s biggest train bosses and Corbyn’s plans for nationalisation. There are serious rumours doing the rounds that trains have reserved seats, stop at stations and sometimes, people get off.
It’ll all come out in the wash, and usually you’d say “the damage is done, innit?”. I think that Corbyn’s opponents are forgetting that much of the ordnance they lob over can be thrown back, twice as deadly.
I taking the piss out of of someone who thought they would pull a cheap publicity stunt and got called on it. His office haven’t denied he walked by empty seats, just came out with some lame arsed reason about having bags on them. If you look at the pictures, even that is clearly not the case.
As for the railways, cost aside, I have had very little issue with the service I have experienced. In fact the service is far better that when is was under public ownership in the eighties when I used it daily.
Is that what happened? It’s a better smear than #brickgate or #officegate, but it’s already unravelling. How good did they look on day two?
Love these kind of articles. So easy to disprove. Don’t tell a lie when there are hundreds of witnesses.
If all the corroborating statements from people on the train are correct, all that’s happened is Corbyn is seen in a better light and Branson looks a greedy lying cunt(yet again).
Edit: calling Branson a greedy lying cunt, was on reflection a gross error.
How did i forget egotistical? Probably his most unendearing feature.
Sneaked in the s on look as well, if i’m being honest.
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‘Train company tries to defend offering an appalling service shock’
If I paid a few grand to stand up all year on a train I wouldn’t give a flying fuck how a photo came about, I’d just be pleased that someone was making the tossers who run it squirm.
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It’s quite amusing. If we take Branson at his word, he’s admitting he’s the kind of man that’ll employ his CCTV services, apparently there for passenger safety, to chase venal personal objectives and score political points for his mates.
That’s the best case, btw 
He could be lying and that would still be true.
Originally posted by @pap
Originally posted by @TheCholulaKid
So, he fucked up that train thing, then.
Early yet, TCK.
I know. It was nothing more than a conversation starter…
Originally posted by @CB-Saint
As for the railways, cost aside, I have had very little issue with the service I have experienced. In fact the service is far better that when is was under public ownership in the eighties when I used it daily.
So apart from the critical issue of cost which you whimsically dismiss, you are comfortable with the undeniably overcrowded and unreliable service which profits massively at the expense of the tax payer.
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Spent a few journeys from Liverpool to Southampton on Virgini trains standing all the way. People using the loos to store luggage. So I can well believe there are no seats available a lot of the time. Most times I travel back on South West trains it’s the same now. We pay more and more for what seems less and less.
Firstly I don’t “dismiss” cost, cost is a real issue especially at peak times. However you seem to have a rose tinted view of what public ownership would entail. All these problems won’t magically disappear. In fact the last time the public owned the railways it was pretty shit, twenty years on people start forgetting.
anyway in the interest of balance, I found this article which talks about the pros and cons fairly dispassionately. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of_British_Rail