Deary me.... his judgement was suspect based on his performance to date but he's raised the bar again on public perception of his incompetence with this latest act of stupidity.

I'm guessing he was persuaded to do this by one or more of his entourage travelling with him as a great media opportunity?

If they had thought it through then maybe it could have been a success.

From what video evidence I've seen there were clearly empty seats available on that train both reserved and unreserved as he walked by them, but not enough available close enough to seat him and his companions together - however if he had booked in advance he could have reserved a section of seats, so no fault by Virgin on that score.

Apparently other passengers chose to sit on the floor by the exit doors too... Corbyn should have engaged them in conversation and negotiated with the Guard to upgrade them to 1st class BEFORE recording his cringe worthy video that was misleading about the situation he faced and the way he dealt with it. By engaging fellow travelers and the Guard he would have shown leadership and problem solving skills as well as a bit of empathy.

Instead he confirmed yet again that he doesn't possess any qualities that would satisfy the public's requirements for a statesmanlike leader of our country who could cope in a crisis and worse he has shown himself up as a liar and easily led by his companions without thinking through the consequences.

Richard Branson was fully justified in exposing Corbyn as a liar and opportunist - after all, Virgin staff did offer to upgrade him and his companions to first class which Corbyn refused to accept and yet Corbyn allowed this fake video to be released for us all to see which was attempting to unfairly defame the Virgin brand and make a political point about nationalising the railways.

You'd think this would now hand the Labour leadership contest to his opponent Owen Smith but he made himself look a prat this morning by calling for a 2nd referendum and/or General Election to ratify Brexit before we invoke article 50 and formally leave the EU.... Thereby p1ssing off over a third of Labour voters that voted leave as well as stiffening the resolve of leave supporters generally (over 50% of the electorate) never to trust Labour to carry out their wishes!

Smith also referred to Corbyn as 'some Lunatic' at a rally yesterday but tried to distance himself from the comment on R4 Today this morning.

The bookies go Corbyn 1/7 and Smith 11/2

The Labour Party is as shambolic as Dad's Army right now, good for neither use nor ornament.

Look at the state of the polls...

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The Tories are way out in front and the gap widening day by day - Labour should be in that position at this stage of the election cycle.

The Unions, Momentum and SWP have their heads in the sand about Corbyn's popularity. Yes he's popular with them and hard line left thinking Labour stalwarts, but the voting public despise him and even ridicule him.... and not at the behest of the right wing media.... they judge his actions on their merits and conclude he is a dangerous buffoon and do not trust him.

Trouble is, the lasting damage he has inflicted on Labour's standing with the voting public generally makes it hard for their party ever to recover from this and they will struggle to mount a serious challenge for power ever again. They are already dead in Scotland.

Very good

Optimistic as ever

I thought you'd left.

Nope he's right!!!

Pro USA & Israel

Absolutely it is, unfortunately Corbyn has both made himself look a total muppet AND derailed (geddit?) the argument by seeking to get a PR win.

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It's started to cast a bit of doubt on whether Corbyn was serious about sitting down with terrorists for a chat now. That's my main concern.

I'm a bit bored of this statement (not getting at you personally, but it's a trope which I've heard trotted out by politicians in the media a lot recently).

While it's true in principle (an adversarial parliament DOES need an effective opposition), I don't think the corollary (ie, that Corbyan somehow makes Labour ineffective as an opposition) is true at all.

The truth is that all these so-called 'Blairites', (which is my term for all the trendy, metropolitan, centre-ground, conventional wisdom, equality-and-diversity loving people who make up so much of the parliamentary Labour party) would feel very comfortable in the Blairite Tory party. It's run by an arch-Blairite, who took over from a poor imitation of Tony Blair.

If you have Blairites running both of the largest parties in parliament (which is what all these moaning Labour MPs basically want) then have a pretend opposition, not an effective one.

The Brexit referendum showed the true divide in the UK. It's not between Tory MPs and Labour MPs (who actually agree with each other on pretty much everything) but between MPs in general and the public they are supposed to represent.

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

Jeremy Corbyn clearly exaggerated when he said that the train he was on was "ram-packed" in order to make his case for rail renationalisation, because he now admits that there were a few single seats available but that he didn't want his wife and his team distributed randomly throughout the train.

There couldn't really be a better example of a deliberate distraction than millions of people talking about whether there were sufficient seats on one particular train on one particular day, rather than the fact that the Tory health secretary deliberately hid the evidence that his 7 Days NHS plan was inevitably going to lead to either service reductions or dangerously overworked staff. One man sitting on a train floor is suddenly more important than the safety of millions of NHS patients!

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But he was sat on the floor all by himself??? was his wife and team hiding in the Loo ???

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.