Sir Nicholas Winterton on why he thinks MPs should not travel in standard class

[fivepence]

dis guy is a fuking dik!!!!!!!!! thinks he's so much greater than us just because he's got more money. someone needs to punch him in the face!!!!!!!!!!!

[valarmanwe]

Snotty git.

[osomy]

Nick winterton is parasite, a sponger. He is a benefits cheat .

During apartheid he was involved in a pro apartheid group, I believe called the Freedom Group(?) a right wing group encouraging buisness in South Africa has a reaction to the anti apartheid movement. He has shown himself to be the greedy pig that he is.

[86501freightliner]

Lol "I'M RIGHT YOU'RE WRONG!". Proof of how stuck up and pompous these pig politicians are today :)

[gundydundy]

Well sir nick im sorry if the oiks and yobbos in standard class are to dirty for you, would one like to ajurn to the lounge for tea and scones...............fucking wanker

[DuGrail]

absurd! This man is an arrogant bigot against the working class.

[conorwilson1647]

this guy need to be kicked in the nads and then put in a pit full of spiders and jam

[mruresm8]

A sickening ''Oik'' who rubs it with Lord Prescott with his arrogance an dislike of ordinary working class people!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dannycheesums]

Welcome to the 21st century sir nick

[alsum501]

I'l answer his question at the end....Who travels in first class? A) Rich people who can afford it or Business people who work for a company that picks up the tab...You want US the tax payers to pay it for you GET FUCKED!!!!!

[TheYewchoob]

fuckin pricks not even livin on this planet

[teatimelud]

This guy makes perfect sense to me..Why don't we lay off him for a while ? Let our MP's travell first class so they can work in quiet conditions. People often forget the harwork being a MP entails. Waking up at 6AM almost everyday and constantly being in search of remedies to our problems..Yes they might abuse the system now and then but seriously, would you sack one of them because of that ?

[984rtgh]

I'd let him sit at the front of the train... right at the front.

[much2buff]

He should move to America.  If a congressperson--or their family members--wishes to travel on the government tit in America they just commandeer a military plane (eg. Nancy Pelosi)

[houseofreggae]

He'd fit right in at the House of Congress.

[sirtinycreep]

Let him use first class. As long as he pays for it out of his own money. But he wouldn't do that, the sponger!

[jimmyessex]

I live in Macclesfield, I absolutely despise this man, so do almost all my famlily friends some of whom are Tory voters. This man is so out of touch with reality. Recently at a conference to discuss teenage eating disorders he said "there's nothing wrong with a skinny girl, tomboyish looks you know". Thanks God he's retiring, at least now he can start his long journey back the 1970s (first class of course).

[eaglepies]

fuck you "sir" nick! really hope you don't get reelected you dick

[mikemetaled]

@eaglepies He's standing down, anyway. Good riddance.

[iolani77]

Pompous Tory balloon. Needs pricking by a first-class pin.

Half a century in public life? What a greedy, supercilious twit.

[anorak103]

He sounds like he still thinks it's half a century ago! Time to bow out from public life now, I'd say

[iolani77]

Thanks for the comment.

Well-stated!

Seems to think he's superior to everyone else.

Hopefully, he'll fade out like an old gramophone record.

I wonder how he came by his bizarre set of beliefs.

[eminemlova101]

BikerBarney, you loser for saying that im going to rinse you at school tomorrow for writing that!!!

[BikerBarney]

who are you hahahaha

[spavman69]

absolute twat.

[ramsayno9]

David Cameron wants the whole country to think that Tories have changed, that they are an ordinary caring compassionate party of the people. In reality they are a bunch of upper class snobs that only care about helping the rich. While working and middle class families are stuggling, the Tories want to take away their child tax credits and give a £200,000 tax giveaway to 3,000 of the wealthiest estates in the country.

THE TORIES NEVER CHANGE, THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THE RICH ELITE!!!!!!!

[old9skool9love]

THE TORY PARTY: THE PARTY OF THE RICH

Enough said

[multitudinal]

...and as for that reference to the miners dropped, its like a racist saying 'im not racist. i once shook hands with a black man'.

[multitudinal]

whats worst about this is the attitude it demonstrates. those 'types' of people are the people you represent, you arrogant dipshit, and you would do well to mix with them so that you might better understand them.

[mikeybrumbrum]

YEs, i totally agree there are drunks and bad people in the normal carriages, but WHY are they FORCED into the working class carriages ?

Just because they are scum, does not mean they are more suited to our carriage, thanks very much. The people in the workers carriages should give th ejobs some extra money and let them go in the poh carriages, with the civil servants, to teach them a lesson.

Those yobs are jobs because the civil servants are rubbish at tehir jobs, and milk the system !!

[largos33dude]

Tory scumbag, thank god this piece of shit going soon.

I think he is probally working out what expenses to he can fiddle, and does not want us peasants to look over his shoulder to see what he is claiming for.

[gizmodzine]

Is that me on the bottom of your shoe !!? No it fooking aint you jumped up w@nker !!

[RobSalamander]

The man is an a**. I travel economy and I work and so do plenty of others. He is a dinosaur. MP's are public servants that's all. In the current climate why shouldn't they have to economise even if it means slumming it with us peasants.

[markd28]

pathetic discussion about a pathetic issue - surely there's more important things to worry about - like unemployment, Afghanistan, the economy etc??

[MrErisian]

I wonder if the BBC still sends its employees on business class trains?

[MrErisian]

I totally agree with this MP. I actually travel on trains and if you're there to work you can't do it on standard class. It's not about upper class or working class. It's about the distinction between standard and business class. This MP is being hung out to dry because he has a posh voice. These 'holier than thou' middle class yahoos who are annoyed about it need to grow up.

[magicmartin18]

This is why the tories are not in power.

[katesnake]

What an arrogant self serving parasite! This "Right Honorable" thief is standing down at the next election over his "expenses", all claimed within the rules of course, when he will receive£42000 "resettlement allowance"!

I would like to re-settle him and his ilk in a 6 x 6 foot square cell on bread and water for 12 months, after which I am sure he would be only too pleased to travel in economy with the commoners!

Let's see him at his local Jobcentre Plus vying for a job on the minimum wage!

[mrbain123]

the BBC dug a trap for him and he fell straight into it. One thing Winterton is clearly is a stuffy old fool.

[mikeybrumbrum]

Its a different world, people - this guy knows NO working class peopel. So what if he met a miner once ?

He represents the "slave master" class, and he considers that all working class shuld have chains on them, and be whipped. He wants the right to sleep with your wife and children, and to tell you to work harder - its the old EMPIRE mentallity, and is extremely dangerous, for all brits, since people in the world actually think we are ALL like him.

He's the PAST, but it hasn't stopped !

[MrErisian]

@mikeybrumbrum No - this guy knows exactly what he's going on about. It's got nothing to do with "working class peopel". It's got everything to do with the yobs and piss heads that ruin train travel every fucking day.

[filkipo]

Yet more poor interviewing - Nolan's already made up his mind and knows how he's going to paint him. Leading questions, selective quoting = exceptionaly poor journalism.

What a tosser Winterton is though!

[AndrewMurray514]

hes a cunt basically

[PRXCV64]

Jumped up little wretch