The Week | 3rd September 2016
CORBYN'S MODEL RAILWAY
It’s not much of a scandal as scandals go, said Dominic Sandbrook in the Daily Mail. Last month Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had himself filmed sitting on the corridor floor of a Virgin train. The 11am from King’s Cross to Newcastle was so “ram-packed”, he told the cameraman, that he couldn’t get a seat a problem, he added, that commuters face every day.
But this, it turns out, was a lie. Days later, Virgin boss Richard Branson released CCTV footage showing there were, in fact, plenty of empty seats. It was a trivial lie, but then, trivial lies tell you a lot about a person. This one “demolished” Corbyn’s claim to be a new kind of politician, one who eschews spin of any kind. “Traingate”, as this mini-scandal has been dubbed, also reveals him to be so incompetent he couldn’t even stage a
proper photo op: “drunk on self-righteousness” and removed from reality, he and his aides didn’t even have the nous to realise that the 11am from King’s Cross to Newcastle carries no commuters and is never overcrowded.
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