Say It Ain't So Jezza

 An email string w/o further comment.

Well just one to capture my despair at the state of the Labour Party.

From:King cyclops      To:The Court

He was probably aiming for his head!

Is this the same "honest and decent"  Jeremy of popular mythology?

Say it ain't so Jezza.

HRHCyclops

-----Original Message-----

From:  Duchess Temple Fortune

To:HRH Cyclops  & Duchess Woodford

Sent: Tue, Aug 23, 2016 9:47 am

Subject: FW: Virgin Trains

JC shoots himself in the foot. 

VIRGIN TRAINS

In case anyone hasn’t seen this- a pretty genius press release from Virgin Trains, after Jeremy Corbyn’s stunt, showing him as ‘the man of the people’ sitting on the floor of a train to highlight overcrowding. Turns out there were quite a few seats available and Virgin sure made the most of it:https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/about/media-room/#/pressreleases/virgin-trains-clarifies-labour-leaders-claim-of-ram-packed-service-1530005

Virgin Trains clarifies Labour Leader’s claim of “ram-packed” service

Press Release  •  Aug 23, 2016 13:40 BST

Virgin Trains clarifies Labour Leader’s claim of “ram-packed” service

Seats were available on the train in which Leader Jeremy Corbyn was filmed sitting on the  floor Virgin Trains has found.

                                                      

 Footage released to the media by Corbyn office showed Mr Corbyn sitting on the floor of a three-hour Virgin Trains service from London to Newcastle claiming it was “ram-packed”.On the film, whilst sitting on the floor, Mr Corbyn said: “This is a problem that many passengers face every day on the trains, commuters and long distance travellers. Today this train is completely ram-packed. The staff on the train are absolutely brilliant, working really hard to help everybody. The reality is there’s not enough trains, we need more of them.”

                                                 

CCTV footage taken from the train on August 11 shows Mr Corbyn and his team walked past empty, unreserved seats in coach H before walking through the rest of the train to the far end, where his team sat on the floor and started filming.https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/about/media-room#

The same footage then shows Mr Corbyn returning to coach H and taking a seat there, with the help of the onboard crew, around 45 minutes into the journey and over two hours before the train reached Newcastle. Mr Corbyn’s team carried out their filming around 30 minutes into the journey.

There were also additional empty seats on the train (the 11am departure from King’s Cross) which appear from CCTV to have been reserved but not taken, so they were also available for other passengers to sit on.

A Virgin Trains spokesperson said:

“we have to take issue with the idea that Mr Corbyn wasn’t able to be seated on the service, as this clearly wasn’t the case. We’d encourage Jeremy to book ahead next time he travels with us, both to reserve a seat and to ensure he gets our lowest fares, and we look forward to welcoming him on board again.

Notes to editors:

Images from the CCTV footage can be downloaded from  "images" section of the Virgin Train website. The images show:

CCTV footage  filmed at 11.07am, approximately 7 min after departure from King’s Cross on August 11. It shows Jeremy Corbyn walking past several empty, unreserved seats in Coach H

CCTV footage which shows Mr Corbyn walking past reserved but empty seats at 11.08am in Coach F

CCTV footage shows two images of Mr Corbyn returning to Coach H and sitting down at 11.43am, shortly after being filmed while sat on the floor and more than 2hrs before his final destination, Newcastle