Traingate

Jalima, I have never started a pro Blair thread, I have always said I would have voted for Brown if he and Blair had stood for leader. I have listed the good done by a labour government whilst Blair was PM when some alleged Labour Party supporters are proud to state they didn't vote for labour when Blair was leader , I did and I Certsintly do not regret if

You have caught me out Jalima, I am not Theresa May . I assume anyone who is not a Corbyn supporter must be a Blairite. It seems obvious to me.

What IS this Momentum?

Another gransnet left-wing poster trying to distance themselves from Momentum.

Gracesgran, you said this has nothing to do with trains, it is about trains, privatising trains, filming a false account of a train journey etc. If he hadn't tried and failed with that false account we would not have this thread . Not an attack on Corbyn, no different to criticising lies by other politician, it's the lie I am angry about and what makes it even more hypocritical is he is standing on the honest politician pedestal, not a good example to his young followers who will not question the fact that it was a PR stunt which failed

I didn't put the CCTV footage on here myself, djen, I put a link to the BBC. I don't have access personally to the CCTV footage, only to the BBC website.

Pollengran I think it is fairly obvious from your posts that you are not Theresa May, please don't worry that we will get you mixed up, like her or not I would always say that she is eloquent and well-mannered and seems to have what is termed a gsoh.

Can't find any pro-Blair thread or posts by anniebach btw

prejudiced not prejudicial - my computer seems to want to write my posts as well as Annie ... conspiracy

What IS this Momentum?

Wed 24-Aug-16 08:33:33

You are so prejudicial (and rude) in your views Annie. What, in my post, showed me accepting a lie!

Best Momentum sticks to organising rallies and leave film making and amateur dramatics to others

How can a'wanna be' be made redundant ? A person can be a 'wanna be' for as long as they wish .

elegran, we'll have our media stunt all planned out for next time. Think of the publicity for Gransnet! We'll be fêted for whole minutes!

"One" is redundant. The one in that post, I mean. Well, also, lots of us are redundant or soon will be, including wannabe PMs.

At the risk of being repetitive, knowing how crowded trains can be, book a couple of corresponding seats to avoid disappointment!!!! fairly elementary I'd have thought?!! Otherwise accept as most of us do, that you may have to travel separately, it's not that big a deal for grown up people!!

Ah, but it goes to prove the man is a "whited sepulchre".
You can't preach "clean" politics then pull a stunt like his! Credibility goes off the lines.

Thatbags We missed our chance in Fife - should have photographed three forlorn Grans waiting on a deserted station platform somewhere in the back of beyond for a train going somewhere off our route to hope it connected with one another going to our destination. We could have made the headlines!

gaga, re ram-packed, maybe he was a sheep farmer in a previous life.

What a lot of hot air heated discussion about a fabricated non-story!

What? He wanted to sit by his wife so he made her sit on the floor with him? My DH would always wish to sit with me but being a gentleman, would insist I sat in any empty seat and he would then sort himself out, either sitting elsewhere, standing or sitting on floor.

So I googled "ram- packed" and it automatically offered me "jam-packed" and "ram-packed" did not come up as a synonym. Fair enough, that was only one online dictionary, but insisting on "ram pack" got me this

www.yourdictionary.com/ram-pack


I understand "rammed full" even with the mental image of the Tokyo Underground which it conjures up, but think "jammed full" is more usual. We have "traffic jams" not "Rams" that is something else.

I'm not surprised the Guardian were in on it.
I really think it is pathetic to have to manufacture news,

Apparently, he just wanted to sit by Laura, his wife. I'm welling up, I'm welling up!

Jam packed - I think!

You have to book a seat on an areoplane so why not a train?! Yes of course there are odd occasions when you might have to travel with little or no notice, but I don't think this was one of them!!!!! People have been reserving seats for donkeys years - my mother always did when she visited us in Cornwall back in the 1960's. Anyone and everyone can do this, it's not for the privileged few. I think even the most ardent J.C supporter is going to have to admit that this was either a stunt or complete stupidity! What George Osbourne did was downright deceitful and indefensible, and as a Tory I'm perfectly willing to admit that, perhaps J.C supporters can be honest enough to do the same.

thatbags nice one.

'Rammed' meaning full is a common expression. Certainly my DC use it all the time. Don't know why I'm even contributing, this thread is becoming more surreal by the minute. Grans with too much time on our hands perhaps? I'm off to work now, thank goodness.