BBC - Owen Jones

[The39thStep]

Seriously, people of a Left persuasion are referred to as "liberal" in the US. I've seen revolutionary socialism lumped in with "liberalism" on boards like The Bully Pulpit. The morons on Torygraph blogs do it all the time.

To be fair liberal left is a good description of much of the 'revo' left

 

[nino_savatte]

To be fair liberal left is a good description of much of the 'revo' left

If you're referring to what's left of the SWP, then perhaps.

But I once saw some American describing Stalin as a "liberal".

 

[The39thStep]

If you're referring to what's left of the SWP, then perhaps.

But I once saw some American describing Stalin as a "liberal".

Do you mean what is to the left of the SWP or what is left of what was the SWP?

 

[nino_savatte]

Do you mean what is to the left of the SWP or what is left of what was the SWP?

The SWP residue... or is that the residual SWP?

 

[The39thStep]

The SWP residue... or is that the residual SWP?

There was a Residential Social Workers rank and file group which had the unfortunate name Residue

 

[Dogsauce]

I love it when Americans talk of 'liberal extremists' as though the phrase makes any sense at all. I always end up thinking up the existence of the Provisional SDP, Shirley Williams in a bomb-belt.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I love it when Americans talk of 'liberal extremists' as though the phrase makes any sense at all. I always end up thinking up the existence of the Provisional SDP, Shirley Williams in a bomb-belt.

hopefully a successful suicide bomb attempt by Shirley

 

[butchersapron]

Wee Owen on Campbell disgrace of an easy money program this morning. 10. I bet he looks like a future rosen in a checked shirt.

 

[butchersapron]

Owen "what sort of blue checked shirt shall i wear on Tv today? Jones . Outflanked from the left by the audience.

 

[sihhi]

Landed another gig via the Working Class Movement Library - doing its main annual lecture the Frow Lecture on 4 May.

 

[rekil]

Party policeman Owen going round pleading with people to keep the music down and stop spilling booze on the carpet. And it's not even his house.

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84

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@AAEmmerson @AaronLSpence I'm not trying to get hits, for Christ's sake! I'm trying to calm people down

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84

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@simonjamesraine @GuidoFawkes Nope, I posted to warn people not to celebrate. Pretty straightforward.

 

[butchersapron]

Heed my blue checked shirt - where did the money go from the 4 minutes on the big question last week owen?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Spunked up the wall on M&S blue check shirts. Do keep up

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Party policeman Owen going round pleading with people to keep the music down and stop spilling booze on the carpet. And it's not even his house.

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84

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@AAEmmerson @AaronLSpence I'm not trying to get hits, for Christ's sake! I'm trying to calm people down

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84

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@simonjamesraine @GuidoFawkes Nope, I posted to warn people not to celebrate. Pretty straightforward.

I still have no fucking clue how this twitter thing works. I mean, who in that mess is saying what to who about who? I just don't get it.

 

[rekil]

I still have no fucking clue how this twitter thing works. I mean, who in that mess is saying what to who about who? I just don't get it.

Yeh it doesn't c+p very well so it looks like mess. Simplified.

Party policeman Owen going round pleading with people to keep the music down and stop spilling booze on the carpet. And it's not even his house.

I'm not trying to get hits, for Christ's sake! I'm trying to calm people down

Nope, I posted to warn people not to celebrate. Pretty straightforward.

 

[sihhi]

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84

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@AAEmmerson @AaronLSpence I'm not trying to get hits, for Christ's sake! I'm trying to calm people down

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84

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@simonjamesraine @GuidoFawkes Nope, I posted to warn people not to celebrate. Pretty straightforward.

Sounds like a South African liberal telling people not to welcome the death of Verwoerd because apartheid still continues.

 

[butchersapron]

Unlike you, I actually know Tony Benn.

 

[rekil]

That latest piece in the indy is well patronising isn't it. It's "a lesson" if you please.

It’s comforting for both sides to build hate figures and saints. All of the bitterness and rage of the social devastation unleashed in the 1980s can be concentrated in one easily hatable individual. For Tories – who, after all, have not won a general election for over twenty years – there is the obvious appeal of a new crusading Thatcher-figure to lead them to victory again. But history is not made by a few individuals at the top, however formidable they may be. And for those who want to change the world – in whatever direction – it’s a lesson that has to be learned.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

A lot of love for this guy these days amongst lefty friends of mine, he's a real hero by the look of it, having his praises sung all over the shop. Looks like he's going to break through to the big time and be a real figure of influence on the left...

 

[Zabo]

A lot of love for this guy these days amongst lefty friends of mine, he's a real hero by the look of it, having his praises sung all over the shop. Looks like he's going to break through to the big time and be a real figure of influence on the left...

Won't be long. A safe seat for Labour in a die hard Labour community like South Shields. He's got the right c.v. and will fit the Labour mould of Oxbridge careerist - Purnell, Milliband et al,.

I wonder if any Labour stronghold will rise up against being exploited by Party H.Q.? Oh the irony!

'Hey lad, them bastards down in that there South have dumped more shit on us yet again!'

'Yer right there dad.'

 

[Smokeandsteam]

A lot of love for this guy these days amongst lefty friends of mine, he's a real hero by the look of it, having his praises sung all over the shop. Looks like he's going to break through to the big time and be a real figure of influence on the left...

What does breaking through 'to the big time' entail?

 

[Balbi]

If he's smart, he'll stay the fuck away from Parliament until 2020. Let the major shite blow over, build a credible voice and image and then sail in like Foot and really bollocks stuff up

 

[Favelado]

Jones as PM. Penny as Chancellor of the Exchequer. 2030 Labour General Election dream ticket.

 

[butchersapron]

If he's smart, he'll stay the fuck away from Parliament until 2020. Let the major shite blow over, build a credible voice and image and then sail in like Foot and really bollocks stuff up

He'll be 70 years old by the time he is leader then if he sails in like foot (2020 he'll be 35, +35 years from election as MP to leader as foot had).

 

[butchersapron]

Oh god, he'll be leader in 2055.

 

[butchersapron]

And articul8 will still be shining his shoes.

 

[DownwardDog]

And articul8 will still be shining his shoes.

He needs to get started ASAP.

 

[treelover]

he was introduced at the UK Uncut event at Freuds house as "the Justin Beiber of the Left"

least he went there though, good for him..

 

[treelover]

Won't be long. A safe seat for Labour in a die hard Labour community like South Shields. He's got the right c.v. and will fit the Labour mould of Oxbridge careerist - Purnell, Milliband et al,.

FFS!, he is nothing like Purnell, maybe one day but certainly not now...

 

[sihhi]

least he went there though, good for him..

To be applauded/cheered for charting that Britain follow the German path of industrial capitalism