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Reaction as Tory MP says she was ‘forced to sit in luggage rack’ on train journey

"Does she not realise that for most standing commuters this is an upgrade?", James Felton pointed out.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2022-12-18 12:26
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Comments from a Tory MP about her local rail service have prompted a bemused reaction on social media.

Tatton MP Esther McVey told the Commons that her local Avanti train service had gone “shockingly downhill” in the last few years.

She said: “The train service between Wilmslow and London on that Manchester to London line used to be hourly, direct and took an hour and 50 minutes.

“Since the pandemic, the rise in industrial action and the start of Avanti operating the line, the service has gone shockingly downhill, ending now in the substandard service that we have today.”

She claimed a rail traveller had recently “caused a Twitter storm by posting up a picture of her child she had stuffed in a luggage rack”, adding: “I sympathised, for I had done exactly the same thing, only it wasn’t a child I stuffed in the luggage rack. It was me for the full two-hour journey.”

McVey added: “That was because several trains had had to crush into one, most people were standing but fortunately I managed to squeeze, and I say fortunately ironically, into the travel rack, and sat there for the full journey.”

The comments have provoked an astonished reaction on social media, with James Felton asking whether she realised that for most commuters sitting in the luggage rack would be an upgrade!

Here’s a pick of what people had to say:

Does she not realise that for most standing commuters this is an upgrade? Used to envy the luggage rack dwellers so much, sat there rubbing it in, grinning away like a fucking rucksack pic.twitter.com/BjZ5613QOC

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 18, 2022

"We no longer have a rail service, it's a rail sufferance," says Tory MP Esther McVey (accurately) after 12 years of [checks notes] Tory government https://t.co/VNtt8XpYgy

— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) December 16, 2022

Esther Mcvey who claims all her travel from Winslow to London on expenses. And her £1625 rent pm for her London accommodation. And her energy bills and council tax. She even claimed £10 for the sweets she took on a school visit.

Just the £194k this yearhttps://t.co/o1Uew5lqgH

— Skew Spew Barmy Hairdo Curmudgeon Bigot and Smug (@SkewSmug) December 16, 2022

Esther McVey 'forced to sit in luggage rack' for train journey
Good to see Tories moaning about the rail industry they privatised. pic.twitter.com/LsHY4Gd4Cc

— steve williams 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 (@possiblynotgod) December 16, 2022

Esther mcvey’s train journeys…but she’s only allowed in to sit in the luggage rack pic.twitter.com/g6caAh82wh

— jonesy (@jonesyb999) December 15, 2022

It's the luggage I feel sorry for.https://t.co/Uq6HO7xj9k

— Unelected Lord Schleswig-Holstein 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@Lee_Patrick_) December 16, 2022

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