This is Jeremy Corbyn. He’s a tosser. Possibly The Tosser. And that’s a very heavy mantle to earn. But Jezza is certainly in contention with his latest act of stupidity and ignorance.

He boarded a Virgin train to Newcastle. I don’t know why. To take coal (not even funny any longer as they haven’t done any mining up there since Arthur Scargill died), to watch lower league football, to enjoy the drunken raving partiness of that city’s nightlife? We just don’t know. Nor particularly care.

He got on the train, sat down on the floor and had himself filmed whilst saying how the trains are so over-crowded the owners should be punished and the entire service put back into the public domain. The workers, he stressed, suck-up nonce that he is, were doing a great job and working very hard. But the owners, fascist capitalist pig-dog, tax-avoiding billionaire that Richard Branson might be; fucking useless. Look at how I’m forced to travel!!!!

That’s not why he’s a tosser. Not for the same old stupid, 1960s hard-left, nationalise-it-all message. Not even for having but one mantra his entire career: what you see is what you get; no spin, no change, just Honest Jez.

He’s a tosser for not realising that in 2016, his were not the only cameras on board the train. Like all trains, it was riddled with cctv. Which showed quite clearly a man who looked remarkably like Jeremy Corbyn, walking past loads of empty seats en route to his little corner of the floor where he chose to sit. And moan about the lack of seating.

Of course, Jeremy and his entourage (not so humble that he doesn’t travel with his posse these days) could have booked seats when they bought their tickets. You can do it on a computer, Jeremy, that machine that is the tool of oppression for the working classes. You can do it on your phone even.

That notwithstanding, it would appear that selling off the rail networks back in Maggie’s day was perhaps not the best move for the traveller. Southern trains has been fucked up for about 6 months and have now announced their next strike days. Such is the level of service that the commuters notice no difference on strike days to ‘normal’ days.

But selling off the energy supplies to private companies; big mistake. Renationalise that if you must. At least it would save me speaking to 17 dickheads a day trying to sell me ‘their’ energy.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx