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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
You're right, if they have no respect for the actual law then a little thing like company policy isn't going to get in the way.
Wonder if richard has any cctv of the guy who had to stand by the bog for an hour and a half
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Dragged through the mud by Richard, this story would never have been more than a byline without his interference and the old adage about all publicity is good publicity isn't true in the modern age. I have no problem with people being exposed as liars either, just as long as the person exposing them isn't behaving just as bad.
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The simple fact is that Corbyn made a complete bodge of the entire publicity stunt. He'd got a few things right, in that he actually was on a train (rather than a bus) and had brought a freelance film maker with him, but he cocked up good and proper in a few more ways:
1: He picked the wrong line to make the point. Anyone with half a brain would have done this stunt on a Southern rail morning commuter service in to London. They're always rammed, Southern are currently in industrial dispute with their unions (making the situation worse) and he couldn't have got a seat if he'd tried.
2: He decided to do the stunt on the train he was taking to a well publicised hustings event in Newcastle. This had been planned many weeks in advance. Claiming he couldn't get a seat on that train makes him and his team look like some kind of ramshackle outfit who can't even pre-book a railway ticket with seat reservations. Either that, or they care so little about campaign/party funds they're buying short notice tickets without seat reservations.
3: When the CCTV came to light, the hilarious ways the Corbyn camp tried to tell everyone that they weren't seeing what they they were seeing were manifold and easily disproved. The story went from
Corbyn couldn't get a seat and sat on the floor all the way to the toon
to
Corbyn was helped to a seat 40 mins in to the journey by train staff
to
Corbyn had seen empty seats, but wanted two seats together so he and his wife could sit together
In the space of about 24 hours. They'd gambled that Virgin East Coast wouldn't comment on the claims, but they lost big time
and
4: They let John McDonnell sound off like a spoilt six year old about stripping knighthoods because Richard Branson is sensible enough to minimise his tax bills.
Face it, it was a plan that could have gone well, if it hadn't been organised by a bunch of political half-wits who make the Chuckle Brothers look like the Kennedy clan.