How stupid is Corbyn getting

I'd quite like ladies only carriages on trains actually. Having had to put up with drunken football fans on some journeys it would be a welcome change. There have been several nasty assaults on trains locally and even the comparatively less dangerous taking of photos on mobile phones up women's skirts!
So good luck Corbyn or whoever would promote ladies only compartments!

I can't see there being sufficient resources to police it though. Who's going to stop drunken football fans getting in the 'ladies only' carriages?

Can we really take another Corbyn thread?I don't particularly want a ladies only carriage, or any form of segregation, but this isn't the worst of the man's ideas by a long chalk.Yes, lots of his ideas are stupid, but doubt he will ever be PM and in a position to implement them anyway.

I think it is a huge backward step to get women only carriages. The men get the whole train and women get one carriage!

There would have to be extra guards in these carriages to stop males boarding and that will put the cost of travelling up for the customer also females who are the worst for drink and in noisy groups are as intimidating and frightening as a group of men sometimes.This chap has not thought his idea through and is just after the female vote if he ever gets elected.

The idea of women only carriages has some appeal given the awful behaviour of a few groups of drunken men. Our local tram service is to be avoided after some football matches - just unspeakable frankly. I suspect Indinana is right though, not enough resources either to ensure it happened or to provide enough carriages.

My neighbour told me recently that there used to be "female only" carriages when she was a growing up - and gave the fact that there are now mixed carriages only as a reason for being scared to travel by train! So it's a recycled idea then?

Stray "a" in there ... oops.

Young men getting on a train are statistically in far more danger on a train than women of my age group.

Would it even be legal?

I love Corbyn. Women only carriages appeal to me, along with quiet carriages which are phone and ipod buzzing free. But I guess it's impractical.

Yes, Grannyknot, I remember the Ladies Only carriages - I think they were still in existence when I was commuting to London in the 60s.

The last time I was on a train, in the so called quiet carriage, the men were quiet, the women were all yakking loudly and foul mouthed-ly on their mobiles.

Would be nic e just to get a seat at times

I remember the ladies only carriages in the past, they were so women didn't have to hear a swear word or put up with pipe smoke etc.ditto the ladies only waiting rooms ( with comfy sofas and a fire going in the hearth!) seeems like something from history.

Well, thinking about it, it is something from history!

This is one of those rare threads where I start off with one opinion, nad after posts are made, I change my mind.

If it has been done before, my guess is that it worked.

I cant see it getting policed properly, and probably it shouldnt as the cost would be huge, but like there are quiet carriages, there could be ladies only ones.

I dont particularly like the idea, but I can see that at certain times, perhaps later at night , and footbal matches etc, they would have their place.

I also dont like the idea of segregation at all, but can see that occasionally choosing it may be useful.

The idea of women only carriages, while it may have attractions at times, is also worrying. My worry would be that it would be used to justify gender segregation in other places, such as that ridiculous time at a lecture at LSE, and of that I could not approve.

I also don't think the idea of pulling out of NATO is fully thought through.

Two weeks to go, is it? I think there's a countdown to the leadership vote in the Mirror online.

Really? Sort if like a countdown to Christmas? Only not so much fun.

If I remember correctly, this one's counting the seconds! Only saw it in passing and chuckled.

Here is quite a balanced report of Jeremy Corbyn's proposals from that well known left wing newspaper the Daily Mail.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3211045/Corbyn-plans-women-train-carriages-curb-sex-pests-public-transport-24-hour-helpline-report-attacks-reveals-policy-harassment.html

Strangely enough Claire Perry, Conservative transport minister has been considering this idea as well. Is she stupid too?

Yes.

It wouldn't work these days.There would be few who would respect it, especially at busy times,and it couldn't be enforced.