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To think that if you stand in the path of a moving car you may get your foot run over?

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Bishybarnybee · 12/05/2017 16:20

I'm no fan of Corbyn but I can't see that this is his fault.

If you look at the video, the car just does exactly what you would expect it to do. It drives forward towards the entrance it was obviously aiming for.

If you try to film a car close up, surely there is a risk of this happening? Obviously I wouldn't wish this on the poor cameraman, but I can't see how it is Corbyn's fault.

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offblackeggshell · 12/05/2017 16:22

Corbyn wasn't even the driver - it was a police officer. The whole story is nonsense.

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AlternativeTentacle · 12/05/2017 16:25

It is a set up.

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milliemolliemou · 12/05/2017 16:32

Alternative - in what way? no cameraman (normally self employed) is going to risk being off work for a set-up. So who did the setting up? I agree the reporting of it in the DM etc was ludicrous but a set-up? By whom?

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Chaotica · 12/05/2017 16:34

A cameraman (or anyone self-employed) may do something dumb if paid enough. Not that I am condoning the conspiracy theory. The whole story is ludicrous though.

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WhereYouLeftIt · 12/05/2017 17:06

Just watched the video (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/11/bbc-cameraman-run-jeremy-corbyns-car/). Car is moving slowly (almost walking pace), enters a narrow side entrance. The front wheels are already past the cameraman, he cries out just as the rear corner is level with his camera/mike, so it was the rear wheel that went over his foot.

so he must have stepped forward as it passed him. All his own fault.

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 12/05/2017 17:09

It is a non-story, but I suspect it would have been given similar prominence if it had been Theresa May in the car - it would have been given as an example of Tory heartlessness towards the ordinary working stiff.

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SnapJack68 · 12/05/2017 17:10

The car should have reversed quickly to see if they could help....

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SnapJack68 · 12/05/2017 17:10

Oopsies

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CrochetBelle · 12/05/2017 17:19

Like WhereYou says, it seems to be the rear wheel that went over his foot.

What a dickhead. What do you expect if you walk right up to a moving car

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WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 12/05/2017 18:27

The car should have reversed quickly to see if they could help...

...while the injured man was lying in the road?