If ever proof was needed that Jeremy Corbyn and his team are terminally stupid, it’s their declaration that this week’s Virgin train stunt “boosted his chances of retaining the Labour leadership”.
Well, as the man opposing him is an even bigger fool than he is, of course he’s going to keep it.
But if the Corbynistas seriously think they can spin something positive out of this farce, they’re even more deluded, inept and out of touch than their “god”.
Because what the nation saw wasn’t a Labour leader making a valid point about the state of our railways.
They saw a bumbling old bloke squatting on the floor next to a toilet pretending he’d been forced to sit there because there were no seats on his “ram-packed train” when CCTV proved there were plenty.
So the man who has spent the last year boasting that, unlike other politicians, he’s honest, moral and straight-talking, actually isn’t.
He participated in a big fat lie – and time-stamped, date-stamped CCTV proved it.
Didn’t his cretinous aides realise there’d be CCTV on that train? Didn’t they realise that if they tried to trash Virgin, Richard Branson would roar back at them with the truth?
Didn’t they realise the 11am train to Newcastle was unlikely to be packed with commuters because they all got on the 7am and 8am trains?
If you’re going to film a stunt about overcrowded trains do it properly. Put some thought into it.
Don’t tell us there are no seats when CCTV footage clearly shows Corbyn walking past rows of them one minute after he’d boarded the train.
But that’s the problem with him and his team. They don’t think. They don’t even talk to people outside their own hard-Left bubble.
They lurch from one catastrophe to the next without ever learning anything.
Hell, these nitwits even tried to say the CCTV was “a lie”. I’m not sure how date-stamped, time-stamped footage can lie but then these morons operate in Corbyn’s La La Land so can say anything.
But having finally realised he could no longer peddle the “no seat” lie, Jezza finally admitted that yes, he DID walk past empty seats before sitting on the floor because he wanted to sit next to his wife.
So what was wrong with all those side-by-side empty seats in Coach H? Did the carriage have a bad vibe? Was the feng shui not right?
And if he really wanted to sit next to his wife so badly why didn’t he book a seat like everyone else?
In itself, this stunt was nothing more than we’d expect from a politician.
But for Corbyn it’s particularly toxic because his reputation is built on being honest and principled – which we now know he isn’t. He’s a hypocrite.
But his people refuse to see that. Instead they hold a press conference where Jezza petulantly threatens to strip Virgin of its franchise if Labour gets into power (punished for revealing truth – there’s an interesting socialist principle).
He also said the train firm would be investigated under data protection for releasing CCTV film exposing his lies.
Did he seriously expect Branson not to fight back in the face of lies about his service?
The truth is Corbyn’s aides haven’t a clue about the real world. The only people they deal with are those who also think Jezza is the messiah so there’s no one to tell them when they get it wrong.
The fact remains the film shot on that train to justify his call for re-nationalising the railways was a lie. And it backfired spectacularly.
But the real stupidity here is there ARE genuine issues with our trains. There aren’t enough of them.
They’re too damned expensive. And you can never be sure whether they’re going to run.
But those bona fide arguments were lost because of Corbyn’s not so cunning stunt.
The whole thing’s been like an episode of Yes Minister – without the professionalism or the laughs.