The gig is up - Corbyn just as decieftul as other politicians #Traingate

You seem to be very upset. Perhaps you're becoming tired and emotional, having spent the last 7 hours on this website today from the time you got up, after having spent 9 hours (at least) yesterday afternoon and evening.

I can understand that perhaps your lack of normal human contact and relationships makes you particularly snippy and sensitive. Add that to your cult obsession with Corbyn and I can see why you're so distressed by my debunking your Dear Leader's lies.

In any case, it's clear you have issues and it's far easier just to add you to my ignore list.

Bye

They have also demonstrated that the monster corporations are now fully political and are part of the right wing campaign to smear Corbyn at every opportunity, factually or otherwise. Nobody gave Virgin a vote, but here they are, key players in British politics. There need to be new laws preventing the major corporations from engaging in public political campaigns like this.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of Corbyn's original tweet, what Virgin have done in response to it is sinister and threatening.

They have broken Data Protection law, apparently without a thought - does Branson even know or care that it exists?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/virgin-trains-faces-data-protection-inquiry-over-corbyn-cctv-footage

They are only supposed to hand over footage like this to the police - is it now the case that train operating companies regard their passengers as fair game to be used in any passing whim of the chief executive's campaigning? What next, sale of passenger activities to TV comedy shows? Blackmail?

They have also demonstrated that the monster corporations are now fully political and are part of the right wing campaign to smear Corbyn at every opportunity, factually or otherwise. Nobody gave Virgin a vote, but here they are, key players in British politics. There need to be new laws preventing the major corporations from engaging in public political campaigns like this.

So now that he's admitted he was looking for two seats together and the video was spin (of which there is nothing wrong) are all the Corbyn defenders on here going to apologize?

Actually, if you bother to look at the picture they are standing at the food bar And the fact York is so far away at the time the pic is taken simply serves to destroy the Corbynite lies that he only got a seat after people had got off the train

I'd hardly call it sinister.

If he's made up a story about their service they're perfectly entitled to refute it to protect their brand.

I'm not attempting to justify the right wing media(I rarely read that shite) but it's clear he's made a fool out of himself and should just own up to his mistake.

So now that he's admitted he was looking for two seats together and the video was spin (of which there is nothing wrong) are all the Corbyn defenders on here going to apologize?

He didn't make up a story but even assuming there was exaggeration, they have no business immediately releasing internal video footage of the carriages to the media. What if there were other people shown who for personal reasons did not wish to have their presence advertised? The Data Protection Act is there to stop this kind of outrageous act by high handed authorities.

Incredibly stupid from Corbyn and I certainly have lost any last tiny shred of respect I had for him. That being said, this is clearly a response from Virgin aimed at hurting the campaign of someone who has threatened to renationalise the trains. Anyone who thinks Virgin are unbiased on this is a fool; they're simply trying to smear Corbyn to make sure he doesn't maintain his position as opposition leader as it will hurt their business.

Releasing photographic of evidence of Corbyn not telling porkies is not a 'smear' it's evidence.

If anyone has been doing the smears it's Corbyn...
smearverb2.

So a Corbyn fan supports Corbyn's story. Quelle surprise.

I'll stick with the hard evidence, thanks

Corbyn makes me cringe with his "man of the people" gag that he seems to play all the time, especially when he has a large entourage following him and he gets exposed lying about it.

This is not what bothers me though, it was a small lie and nothing more. What worries me is that this man a potential prime minister is getting frustrated and lashes out like a child over a reporter calling him out on the train incident.

What hope is there of the guy dealing with Russia, Syria or ISIS as PM if he can't even keep his cool with a simple reporter?

They're a private company not an authority.

You have a valid point about other train users and I know I'm anti-Corbyn but come on, he's been busted red handed.

Corbyn makes me cringe with his "man of the people" gag that he seems to play all the time, especially when he has a large entourage following him and he gets exposed lying about it.

This is not what bothers me though, it was a small lie and nothing more. What worries me is that this man a potential prime minister is getting frustrated and lashes out like a child over a reporter calling him out on the train incident.

What hope is there of the guy dealing with Russia, Syria or ISIS as PM if he can't even keep his cool with a simple reporter?

He does get exasperated with the media, which doesn't do him any favours with the wider public, but on the other hand, they make up so much stuff about him and have only a single mode - attack - towards his policy views, that it's quite difficult to see how anyone in that situation wouldn't get annoyed.

He isn't smooth and over-schooled like Blair or Cameron, but is that a bad thing overall? Were those two really good for us?