Isn't it strange though Jeremy Corbyn making a short film on a train without permission about re-nationalising the railways even though Labour won't ever do it has done the following things:
Jeremy Corbyn being seen as misleading the public for claiming to be on an overcrowded train when he wasn't.
- Virgin Trains releasing a CCTV image and facing a data protection enquiry.
- Days of constant nonesense reports about "Traingate" with both Corbyn and the press making a mountain out of a molehill.
- Calls by John McDonnell for Sir Richard Branson to lose his knighthood.
- More suggestions that the Labour Party is falling apart.
- 48 pages and 706 posts on this forum.
- Calls for more seats on trains even when they aren't overcrowded.
- Calls for nationalisation as under British Rail trains were never overcrowded and were always on time.
There's an interesting footnote to this story. The Guardian launched an investigation after it emerged that the story was written up under a bogus byline by supporters of Corbyn's Momentum group. Today have now added a footnote to the story, which is still on line:
'This article was amended on 7 October 2016, following an investigation by the readers’ editor, to correct the headline and text, which originally omitted the fact that Corbyn obtained a seat about 45 minutes into the journey. Charles B Anthony is a pseudonym used by Anthony Casey, who is not a Guardian reporter. He is an active Corbyn supporter whose text, which was submitted with the video from Yannis Mendez, was partly used in the preparation of this article.'
According to the Guido Fawkes site, 'An internal Guardian investigation has blasted the paper’s editors for publishing the original Traingate story by a freelance journalist who turned out to be a Trotskite. The Guardian readers’ editor rubbishes the article as “a kind of gonzo news release by two Corbyn supporters”, concluding that the paper “misled” its readers and that editors’ “pre-publication checks and balances failed”. Turns out the freelance filmmaker who shot the pictures of the Labour leader sitting on the floor was being paid by the
'Jeremy For Leader campaign'. The Trotskyite freelance journalist who wrote the story wasn’t even on the train. The authors first pitched their pro-Jez propaganda to BuzzFeed, who embarrassingly for the Guardian smelled a rat and turned it down.'