To be fair, McDonnell is an arsehole every day, so would be a shoe-in whatever, given that he has got to his age and is still obsessed with what amounts to sixth-form politics.
Jeremy Corbyn’s closest ally has called for Sir Richard Branson to be stripped of his knighthood, days after his company Virgin released CCTV footage casting doubt on the Labour leader’s claim of train overcrowding.
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, used an interview in the Sunday Mirrorto call Branson, who lives in the Caribbean, a “tax exile who thinks he can try and intervene and undermine our democracy”.
What!?!
Jezza lied about having to sit on the floor a train and got caught out; a situation that could be easily avoided by reserving a seat, something he and his team were too incompetent to manage (and these fuckers want to run the country). When the lie was exposed by Virgin Trains they do what the left always does, go for the Ad Hom. There is nothing in what Branson said or did that “undermines our democracy” you fetid fucktard.
He also repeated his call for the former BHS owner Sir Philip Green, whom he called a “freeloader”, to lose his title as part of a shakeup of the honours system. He said those who were not “acting in the spirit of our country” should lose their honours.
Oh, please do; that will clear out all those Labour flunkies sitting in the Lords. Bring it on.
McDonnell, who is leading Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour leadership, said: “It should be a simple choice for the mega-rich. Run off to tax exile if you want. But you leave your titles and your honours behind you when you go.”
There is no suggestion that the tax affairs of Branson or Green are illegal.
Well, no, but they are hoping the mud will stick and the infantile, intellectually challenged SJWs will latch onto it anyway.
Instead, he said, awards should go to “unsung heroes who keep our public services running, or devote a lifetime to local communities”.
I.e. Labour’s natural client vote. These people really are nasty scum.
Don’t Virgin Trains have a duty to defend their reputation against liars who claim that their trains are overcrowded when they clearly are not?
As for “Unsung heroes who keep our public services running…”
Why should anyone expect special honours for doing the job that they are payed to do? I fix and repair industrial machinery and help to keep the wheels of British industry turning. The company that I work for pays me to do this. Last year I volunteered and manned a water station at the Hull marathon. Can I have a knighthood please?
Well, quite.
I’m curious how Mr. J. Corbyn MP expects to provide more seats on that particular railway line given that he’s opposing High Speed 2, which is supposed to provide more capacity.
Also, under private ownership, the UK’s rail network went from 0 miles to over 23000 miles by 1914. Nationalisation saw the network shrink dramatically, (mostly under Labour, not the Tories), next to fuck all investment (as BR was seen as an easy target by HM Treasury), and multiple expansion and upgrade projects kicked into the long grass. (Crossrail and the Thameslink Upgrade are both well over 18 years late. The latter project’s original name — “Thameslink 2000” — gives an idea of when it was supposed to be completed!)
I wouldn’t trust British MPs to run a bath, let alone national infrastructure projects and investment. I sure as hell wouldn’t trust Jeremy Corbyn given his arrant hypocrisy over HS2.
I am bemused by the idea that public ownership will magically create more seats. The man is a cretin.
That what I love about Labour, it’s only OK to have shed loads of money and a peerage if you support Labour.
If I had loadsa money I sure as hell would leave the minute this lot got into power – not that there’s much chance of that happening any time soon, thank God!