British Politics Thread.

[Psychosplodge]

lols. Zombie ****s?

[CoffeeGrunt]

lols. Zombie ****s?

Nah, was thinking more about New Order. :P

[Psychosplodge]

We're currently in the lead up to a council by election.
The labour candidate lives around twenty miles away(infact people that live there would probably say they don't live in Sheffield). For a council election.
This is the same labour party that normally criticises the Tory candidate being located 6-7 miles away.
An ex-labour councillor has distributed flyers asking people to vote for the libdem candidate as she is based in the ward and has a track record of supporting the local area.

[Denzark]

Ah, tactical voting. Love it.

[Psychosplodge]

Its genuinely amazed me, literally every piece of literature the labour party sent in the last elections pointed out the rival candidates that didn't live in the ward, and now they're standing possibly the furthest away candidate I've ever had the option to vote far.

[Psychosplodge]

[URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/23/revealed-jeremy-corbyn-had-a-seat-during-train-journey-he-claime/"]
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[Denzark]

I just came on to ask how Corbyn fans were going to spin this. For those who can't be arsed with the link - or want to challenge the DT story as tory propaganda - Corbyn takes a train journey. He then upholds his principles by sitting on the floor and not taking a first class seat. He then sends out tweets and all that crap about the train being overcrowded (he wants to re-nationalise BR).

However...

Being a Virgin Train, Richard Branson don't like this.

So he publishes the train's CCTV... which shows Corbyn actually had a seat, not in first class, for the larger part of his journey - and indeed confirms that there was unrserved free seats in cattle class for his whole journey...

Sometimes Big Brother is worth it....

[CoffeeGrunt]

Unfortunate, but one has to wonder why a company has released a security tape, not to mention it being a rail company that just happens to want to disprove the credibility of a candidate who wants to nationalise the rail network.

People have noted that his claim was that there weren't any free seats available to the public, and the rest were first class or reserved. Doesn't necessarily mean he was in the right, but it feels like a slow news day that everyone's running with this.

[Denzark]

I don't wonder why they released the tape - he has been disingenuous at best, a lying turd at worst and has directly criticized the company - they merely showed the proof refuting it.

Also, it is entirely reasonable for Virgin as profit making capitalists in a free market to not want to be nationalised.

The funny thing is I see the national rail as strategically critical infrastructure and I would nationalise it myself!

[Psychosplodge]

Don't forget he already had a camera crew with him. They could have easily found a genuinely overcrowded train and been honest. Now he looks just as dishonest as any other politician.