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Ramrod · 23-08-2016, 17:07

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Originally Posted by nidave

Virgin Trains disputes Jeremy Corbyn claim over lack of seats
Labour leader, who released film of him sitting on floor of ‘ram-packed’ train, seen walking past empty seats on CCTV footage
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-lack-of-seats

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Jeremy Corbyn had a seat on a train journey he suggested was so “ram-packed” he had to sit on floor, according to CCTV footage seen by The Telegraph.

The Labour leader walked past rows of empty seats before sitting on the ground between carriages for a video in which he attacked the state of Britain’
s railways, footage shows.

Minutes after filming the video, during when he called for renationalisation of the railways, he took up a seat for the remaining journey of his London to Newcastle trip.

On August 11, Corbyn and his team boarded a Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) train at London King’s Cross to get to Newcastle. According to Virgin, CCTV footage shows them walking through Coach H – where there were plenty of unreserved seats – and walking to the far end of the train where Corbyn sat on the floor and was duly filmed by his staff.

In this video, Corbyn, more in sorrow than in anger, regrets the lack of seating and uses it as part of his campaigning initiative, launched that very day, for the renationalisation of the railways. It was subsequently posted on a newspaper website.

It now transpires that after he had finished filming – just 45 minutes into a journey set to last two and three quarter hours – he ambled back to Coach H and spent the rest of the journey sitting in comfort.