Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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#1
George Osborne has been forced to pay £160 for an upgrade when he was caught with a Standard rail ticket in the First Class carriage on a Virgin train from Euston - oh dear, you just couldn't make it up.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
he may have been setting an example to us all by buying a second class ticket neil.
then he saw a working class chap, panicked and took refuge in first class.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20008342Jan Higgins
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#3
Maybe the plonker could not find a seat with the riff-raff, I bet it all gets called a misunderstanding with the blame going on some nameless clerk.
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Guest 776- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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#4
Cherie Blair got caught in this predicament, I think she had not paid for a ticket
Cross party problem
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#5
all good fun when the people that talk down to us get shown up for what they are.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#6
BTW
Andrew Mitchell has resigned, so I hear.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
just heard it myself tom, i suppose that makes him a pleb now.
Brian Dixon
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#8
hoooraaaaaaay.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#9
"Claims that George Osborne tried to sit in a first class train carriage with only a standard ticket have been flatly rejected by the Chancellor's office and rail company Virgin."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/osborne-made-buy-ticket-upgrade-163816840.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1
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#10
To fill out the story
he refused to move
what kind of example was that?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#11
# 4.....budding closet ....now a closet....
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#12
every day staff are put under poressure from fare evading passengers
#here the chancellor should have set an example
instead he refused to move
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Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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#13
He should have travelled at the weekend. You can upgrade for £10 at the weekend.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#14
Perhaps he does it all the time, but only this time got caught out.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#15
didn't he set the country a good example
seems it's not just mitchell that thinks hes better than everyone else
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#16
funny how virgin rail suddenly altered their story, must have remembered that the west coast franchise is still up for grabs.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#17
Osborn`s Great train snobbery,ticketgate affair resulted in the ticket inspector demanding he pay £ 160 surcharge for him to sit
in first class with a standard ticket.A pack of journalists waited for him at Euston but he choose a security gate but met more
journalists who asked all the obvious questions without reply.His embarrassment compounded by him being on the franchise
line the government took away from Virgin together with his Westminster tag being `out of touch rich boy`and a Chancellor
millionaire who thinks he is above the normal rules and laws.In the Cabinet he is not alone on that score.
So much for we are all in it together........
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#18
same old tories!!!!!!!!
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