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New politics / man of the people my arse, if one of his disciples paid for the tickets they'll go on the expenses chit anyway.
Dear Jezza, care to spread some of your own considerable wealth...? How exactly will rail travel be any different under a nationalised system...? Answers on a postcard, etc, etc.
Dear Jezza, care to spread some of your own considerable wealth...? How exactly will rail travel be any different under a nationalised system...? Answers on a postcard, etc, etc.
Halb said:
Mojooo said:
Begs the question I spose why were the photos of of 4 different people all sitting with Corbyn - some onf twitter have confirmed they had to sit because they couldnt find a seat
One was just on the news saying it was full.At this juncture, someone is mistaken...
People think they cant sit in booked seats even if the person hasnt got on the train and they end up standing.
Selfish people put bags on the seat next to them on the train to prevent anyone sitting next to them without asking. Idiots then dont ask.
I've been on trains with 10 + people standing in a carriage when reserved seats were free & people had bags on seats.
Admittedly harder with 2 kids as you want to sit together.
iwantagta said:
Halb said:
Mojooo said:
Begs the question I spose why were the photos of of 4 different people all sitting with Corbyn - some onf twitter have confirmed they had to sit because they couldnt find a seat
One was just on the news saying it was full.At this juncture, someone is mistaken...
People think they cant sit in booked seats even if the person hasnt got on the train and they end up standing.
Selfish people put bags on the seat next to them on the train to prevent anyone sitting next to them without asking. Idiots then dont ask.
I've been on trains with 10 + people standing in a carriage when reserved seats were free & people had bags on seats.
Admittedly harder with 2 kids as you want to sit together.
The other issue here is that the footage released is in the buffet car - the seats in the buffet car are never reserved - and always the first to fill-up. So if JC has a seat in the buffet car it's his seat for the journey. There are also people who choose to stand by the buffet car rather than walk through the train to coach C - where there would likely be seats.
This is just idiotic and clumsy from Corbyn. As a floating voter, never in a million years would I vote for Corbyn, the man is a muppet, who can't even get 'the train is full' stunt right. The sad fact is the hard core blinded 'fans' will get him re-elected and possibly split the party as they all realise that even 1 million votes will not even touch the surface at a GE.
Once he's elected I would love to see the 75% of Labour MP's that don't support him resign and call by elections - that would be interesting to see how many marginal seats would go conservative / Lib Dem / UKIP.
iwantagta said:
Because people are idiots/inherently selfish.
People think they cant sit in booked seats even if the person hasnt got on the train and they end up standing.
Selfish people put bags on the seat next to them on the train to prevent anyone sitting next to them without asking. Idiots then dont ask.
I've been on trains with 10 + people standing in a carriage when reserved seats were free & people had bags on seats.
Admittedly harder with 2 kids as you want to sit together.
Please attend any Reading to Paddington rush hour trains I can guarantee you no empty seats are left - people seem to have more backbone. People think they cant sit in booked seats even if the person hasnt got on the train and they end up standing.
Selfish people put bags on the seat next to them on the train to prevent anyone sitting next to them without asking. Idiots then dont ask.
I've been on trains with 10 + people standing in a carriage when reserved seats were free & people had bags on seats.
Admittedly harder with 2 kids as you want to sit together.
If I see someone with a bag on a seat I or anyone else will say excuse me please can I sit there - never has that been refused.
I wish those passengers you talk about come on my trains more often I will get those seats at their expense and they will be too shy to do anything about it
Dromedary66 said:
GreigM said:
One of his campaign team have just been on the TV claiming that the seats that looked empty were actually full of "luggage and children who are too small to appear on the CCTV" - its like they are taking tips from Donald Trump
Did they really say that?In which case he is sitting on a child.
She's a "national organiser" for momentum.
The sheer scale of delusion is staggering.
How can he hang on now?
This is just deceit - how can he talk to anyone about integrity now? And that's before you consider how stupid it makes him look.
I suspect Branson is rather enjoying this, for various reasons
P5BNij said:
New politics / man of the people my arse, if one of his disciples paid for the tickets they'll go on the expenses chit anyway.
Dear Jezza, care to spread some of your own considerable wealth...? How exactly will rail travel be any different under a nationalised system...? Answers on a postcard, etc, etc.
rResurrecting the British Rail Pork Pie will unite the nation.Dear Jezza, care to spread some of your own considerable wealth...? How exactly will rail travel be any different under a nationalised system...? Answers on a postcard, etc, etc.
Dromedary66 said:
Did they really say that?
In which case he is sitting on a child.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07nr0gf/bbc-...In which case he is sitting on a child.
go to 10:17 for the comedy to start
Pesty said:
I don't do trains, it would seem to me at busy times it would be OK to sit in a reserved seat until the ticket holder arrived. Is that how it works!
In my experience many seats are booked but not used; because there is no charge for seat bookings I suspect people and businesses just take the piss and block book. Why they let you book seats like this is beyond me, given the outrageous ticket prices I'd have thought a charge for booking or only allowing one booking per ticket would be the way ahead.Pesty said:
I don't do trains, it would seem to me at busy times it would be OK to sit in a reserved seat until the ticket holder arrived. Is that how it works!
Correct. Many who book tickets don't end up catching the train they specify so personally in 4 odd years of using Reading to Paddington not once has the actual ticket holder appeared. If the train company gets a £/margin for it and he doesn't turn up that's not my concern (if said ticket holder did turn up of course I or anyone else would move)
One chap posted above about kids - I've never seen kids on the commuter times personally - pricy as a family of 4 run to London would be £240 or get off peak to halve that if not more.
hidetheelephants said:
In my experience many seats are booked but not used; because there is no charge for seat bookings I suspect people and businesses just take the piss and block book. Why they let you book seats like this is beyond me, given the outrageous ticket prices I'd have thought a charge for booking or only allowing one booking per ticket would be the way ahead.
On the rare occasion I have to travel down to that stink London I've wondered on the vast swathes of empty reserved seats.Halb said:
On the rare occasion I have to travel down to that stink London I've wondered on the vast swathes of empty reserved seats.
On some routes a reserved seat just gets you dumped in the few carriages specifically allocated for just 'reserved'. Inevitably, these can get quite full so many travellers simply avoid their reserved seat and sit in the unreserved carriages - hence the reserved seats with nobody sitting in them.
khead.Jockman said:
Pesty said:
I don't do trains, it would seem to me at busy times it would be OK to sit in a reserved seat until the ticket holder arrived. Is that how it works!
It's not reserved until the ticket holder arrives anyway. You can be forgiven 
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