Comprehension not your strong point? I wasn’t calling you a liberal – and I understand your social problems.

Let me help you. Running and hiding rather than doing something about your situation is one motive, and it makes you angry. Economic migrancy rather than seeking asylum (running and hiding) also makes you angry, and you seem confused as to which you are angry about, accusing people of both at the same time. Take a breath. Have a think. That’s what they would have taught you if you’d been promoted.

Come on Rambo, answer my question.

Paul, did I misunderstand?

That much is clear. You have contempt for people who are either escaping war or seeking a better life, or both. Why the contempt? And where does the ‘let there (sic) families drown’ bit come from? I don’t read your hate-filled and poorly-written ‘newspapers’, so I honestly don’t know.

‘Fight for your own country’? Do you have any clue at all about what is actually going on in the world? Rhetorical question.

You are a family man in a small town in Syria. First you are sh*t on from a great height by a nasty leader, but the only viable opposition is ISIS-funded and believes in raping your daughters into submission to Allah. Then the Russians start bombing your town indiscriminately – in support of that nasty leader. So, Paul, having manned up how do you now plan to ‘fight for your country’?

Ramble on ☺

I am inclined to agree with Bruce. I think the left needs to evolve in its own time. To me, Corbyn is a part of that evolution. I also agree that they could have booked, and the idea was to show what happens if you don’t, along with the rows of empty but unusable seats that result from the ‘necessary’ booking system. It was set up to show something, I have no doubt. Does not make anyone a liar apart from possibly Virgin trains press and PR team.

Oohh, capitals! Someone pressed a button, Mr. T? It’s a video blog, or vlog. Not a ‘seedy little film’ whatever the Telegraph calls it.

And the full story is those seats were made available by offering up a lot of first class upgrades.

I don’t believe in St. Jeremy.. I am listening, but all I am hearing is some long winded over complicated non-story cooked up by a billionaire’s PR department in full defensive mode about some train seats and a video.

We get the politicians in power that we deserve. ‘Knob’, ‘Turd’.. while this remains the tenor of political debate then we are all stuffed.

Virgin trains are very often rampacked. Does my saying that make me a knob too?

Or, does it make these people knobs – Ellen, from the same article:

“He’s not lying. When I saw him he was in coach A, right at the front. He hadn’t managed to find a seat in the whole of the train. I was sat on the floor, there was no space for me to get a seat. There were people in every space between every carriage. It was totally overcrowded. They were full of bags and full of people.”

Another woman, Keren Harrison, tweeted a photo of herself with Corbyn on the train, saying there was only a seat for him about 45 minutes into the three-hour trip “when staff started shuffling people around”

Bruce, note that last bit. The shuffling people around. It was quick thinking by Virgin trains that created the ‘space’ around J that they could then use as a counter on social media. He was offered an upgrade to first, which he very sensibly refused. So Virgin did the next best thing for their PR; and offered the upgrade to those around him.

Which bit makes him a knob?

Has no-one noticed the Virgin tweet of ’empty seats’.. every one reserved? But why is no-one calling Mr. Branson a liar? A bloke points out his service is a bit ****e, his ‘people’ go into overdrive, tell the papers what to say and suddenly that bloke is a knob.

I ask again, why?

Why is Jeremy a turd?

What on earth has he done to you? He seems to attract a lot of very personal abuse, the sort (‘turd’) you’d get punched for where I come from, and certainly suggesting some specific prompted indignancy – but nobody seems able to explain why they are doing it apart from ‘The Daily Mail says it so it’s ok’, ‘He is an actual Socialist’ ‘He appears to have read some books’ or ‘He has a beard’..

Please enlighten. (Not you John, I know that the reasons above are exactly your justification for switching from civilised reasoned argument to personal abuse).