Politician wears baseball cap to inspect a train toilet, instantly becomes meme
The internet is an unforgiving place. And that lack of compassion is in even shorter supply for politicians on photo-ops.
Case in point, this photo of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wearing a baseball cap and sporting a pair of transparent (perspex?) glasses while inspecting a train toilet.
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Mr Corbyn was visiting Wabtec Rail, a manufacturer in Doncaster. You know, out meeting 'real people' and posing in 'real places' like train toilets, as you do.
He was there to launch his plan to 'upgrade Britain's economy' and take action on jobs after Brexit.
Needless to say, the internet had a field day over this golden nugget:
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What is it with Jeremy Corbyn and trains?!
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Anne-Marie Tomchak is the UK Editor of Mashable, where she heads up the company's operations from London. She has spent over a decade reporting and presenting for national and international broadcasters including the BBC, RTE, Deutsche Welle, American Public Media and NPR. In 2013, Anne-Marie launched the social media investigative unit BBC Trending. During her time at the corporation, she also developed the mobile video offering on the BBC News app and fronted live social broadcasts. Anne-Marie is a leading digital media voice contextualizing the role of technology in the modern world. She has made a number of feature length TV documentaries for Ireland's national broadcaster RTE in her capacity as UK Editor for Mashable, including ‘Cloud Control: Who Owns Your Data?’ (Nov 2016) about big data and digital fingerprints and “Will A Robot Steal My Job” (Nov 2017) about the impact of AI and automation on the workforce. The Irish Times listed her as '30 Irish Women You Need to Know' for International Women's Day and she is one of Silicon Republic's '30 Incredible Irish people leading a European invasion'.