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October 19, 2012 5:47 pm

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We didn’t get to see George Osborne after his First Class Train Ticket outburst today. Seemingly the police at Euston were keen to keep the press from the Chancellor. Seemingly George is as keen to be kept from the press as he is from the plebs…:

Update: Guido Fawkes has a picture of Osborne leaving the scene:

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  • http://twitter.com/Ceilidhann Kayleigh Anne

    I’ll buy a pint to the MP who hackles Osborne with choo-choo noises in the chamber next week.

  • http://twitter.com/Ceilidhann Kayleigh Anne

    I’ll buy a pint to the MP who hackles Osborne with choo-choo noises in the chamber next week.

    • PeterBarnard

      Kayleigh Anne,

      Shades of the Labour benches and “Pretty Polly” all those years ago when a Liberal Democrat won a by-election, shortly after Thatcher’s remark about the “Liberal Democrats = a dead parrot” (to much applause) at a Conservative annual conference.

      It could be said that her remark turned around to peck her in the backside.

    • aracataca

      Like it Kayleigh.

  • rekrab

    Osborne’s e-mail interception! ‘ Feck, the Harry Potter invisible cap didn’t work Dave, what went wrong?

  • http://twitter.com/waterwards dave stone

    Osborne wanted to remain in First Class even with a Standard ticket. Funny how the rich feel themselves entitled to be treated like spoiled brats.

    One cannot help but feel it would be wholly to their benefit if they were given a good kick up the arse from time to time, so to speak.

    • AlanGiles

      Yet again, yet another example of yet another politician who feels rules were made for ordinary people, not them. Perhaps Cameron should employ ex MP  Harvey Proctor, to be in charge of “discipline and correction” in his ramshackle organisation!

  • JoeDM

    It’s pretty normal to pay an on-train upgrade to 1st.   Nothing wrong with that.   I do it quite regularly if I have work to do on the way home.

    • Dave Postles

       ’It’s pretty normal to pay an on-train upgrade to 1st.’
      Oh really.  My normal was doing work commuting in second class and on the bus.  I expect that would apply to most people.  Or perhaps there’s a new normal.

    • Brumanuensis

      The point wasn’t wanting to upgrade. It’s the allegation that when asked to pay the difference, either Osborne or his aide refused to do so initially and only yielded after an extended stand off.

  • http://twitter.com/_DaveTalbot David Talbot

    Was there a security risk? If not, why where the police shielding a democratically elected politician from a waiting press and public? That really is disgraceful in my humble opinion.

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