Update from my mother: The man is currently trying to get through to his MP and being very loud about it, he has been asked to keep his voice down by another passenger. He has also demanded my father identify himself but my father has said it's an Official Secrets Act matter.
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Update Seems he has got through to his MP and is loudly telling him he has uncovered, "a secret remainer plot"
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I have my father on speakerphone, I can hear the man shouting. They are pulling into Gare du Nord and he is again demanding my father's identity, fortunately my brother is there to collect them.
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He's still talking to his MP and is saying he's going to be calling the Daily Telegraph next. Meanwhile the train has arrived and they are getting off.
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Just spoke to my brother, they are walking to the car with train man still demanding identities. Apparently the first thing my mother said was, "Your father has done it again"
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Fortuitously my brother had used his wife's new Range Rover to collect them and train man followed them all the way to the car-park whereupon seeing the car shouted, "We tax payers bought that"
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They are now driving away. Train man spent five minutes filming them as they put luggage in the car while all the while saying, "This is going straight to the papers, do you hear me, straight to the papers" My father suggested he contact the British Embassy for a quote.
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Parents now at my brother's house and they filled me in on more of the journey. My father had heard train man talking on his phone about Brexit at the start of the journey but he said the red trousers were another clear sign. He waited until train man was nearby and then...
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.. said into his phone, "This has to be kept quiet, if those Brexit Party people here we are opening negotiations with the EU there will be hell to pay" Sure enough he fell for this hook line and sinker....
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Train man immediately asked my father what he meant and despite my mother's whispered demands to remain silent my father said, "Look I can't say much about this but the UK government is exploring how we go about rejoining the EU, timescales, costs etc. I can't say any more"
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It seems this had the desired effect and train man, in the words of my mother, "Quickly become very animated and rather red in the face" My father sensing his work was done then said, "I've said too much, the PM will not be happy if this leaks"
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Then train man told them he had once been a UKIP local councillor so my father feigning shock said, "O Christ, you're the last people we need to know about this" and then refused to say anything more which naturally inflamed train man further and that was when he ....
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... began making phone calls. He certainly called his MP and used his phone to take photos of my parents and bizarrely of my father's brief case that was on the rack above the seats. When he again began asking questions my father said....
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.. they were being collected by "a man from the embassy" and all enquiries would have to be directed to him. Apparently at this point my mother said, "Happy now?"
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