BBC - Owen Jones

[Maurice Picarda]

Is Jones no longer popular here? Not surprising. I saw him at an impeccably progressive shindig the other day conspiring with Nigel Lawson, thick as thieves, like respectful grandson and doting grandfather, like Frodo and Gandalf. I thought at the time: he's probably going to lose the P&P constituency with his sleb antics and general ubiquity.

 

[treelover]

.@billybragg calls on #glasto to fight austerity, and says the main enemy is our own cynicism. Preach.

at 200 pounds a pop not much austerity there...

 

[sihhi]

He sounds like an "Old Labour" government already:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/30/glastonbury-views-from-leftfield


"But the problem is there is a democratic deficit and there are elements of free-market dogma – such as the privatisation of public services – that are enshrined in those treaties. So I'd want to renegotiate those elements."

Renegotiate those elements - what does he think this all is? Renewing his home insurance?

 

[butchersapron]

Note what he identifies as the problem - lack of democracy. Nothing else.

 

[Joe Reilly]

He sounds like an "Old Labour" government already:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/30/glastonbury-views-from-leftfield


"But the problem is there is a democratic deficit and there are elements of free-market dogma – such as the privatisation of public services – that are enshrined in those treaties. So I'd want to renegotiate those elements."

Renegotiate those elements - what does he think this all is? Renewing his home insurance?

'So I'd want to...

Meanwhile his article in The Independent on Labour's current failings is illustrated with a red flag at half mast. What an utter plum.

 

[rekil]

'So I'd want to...

Meanwhile his article in The Independent on Labour's current failings is illustrated with a red flag at half mast. What an utter plum.

I see Gideon. Journos don't choose the pics that accompany their articles tbf.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Horatius at the bridge once more:

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84
I'm literally having to go on TV to argue against Tory attacks on the poorest... and my opponent is a *Labour* MP defending them. Incredible

9:49 AM - 2 Jul 13

Literally?

LITERALLY.

 

[frogwoman]

"I'm having to go on TV" he makes it sound like something he really doesn't want to do. you know, like "oh my god i was literally dying "

 

[articul8]

I am often figuratively on TV

 

[butchersapron]

Makes a change from your cross then.

 

[DotCommunist]

How is it incredible, doesn't he know what the party he cheerleads for are actually about

 

[frogwoman]

he's an advanced layer so he really should.

 

[J Ed]

Well if he didn't indicate surprise then the premise of all his articles would seem ridiculous...

 

[butchersapron]

I'm literally having to go to oxbridge.

 

[butchersapron]

I am literally being forced to take a leading role and speak on behalf of others.

I am literally embedded in and taking advantage of a series of social relations that privilege me. I literally have to.

 

[caleb]

I'm literally having to go to oxbridge.

Being the brightest boy at a bright school he probably had very little choice, poor lad.

 

[frogwoman]

you won't believe it, I've literally had to speak for half an hour on a platform with Tony fucking Benn

 

[butchersapron]

Unlike you, i LITERALLY KNOW TONY BENN.


(and he reeks of skunk)

 

[articul8]

We can take the piss - but short of abolishing the society of the spectacle, it remains a relatively good thing that he has something of a platform to challenge the demonisation of benefits claimants and the ideological justifications around it.

 

[DotCommunist]

can we literally take the piss?I'm chuffed

 

[butchersapron]

We can take the piss - but short of abolishing the society of the spectacle, it remains a relatively good thing that he has something of a platform to challenge the demonisation of benefits claimants and the ideological justifications around it.

Oh shut up. One misused allusion + a pompous claim followed by a wrong one. Nice one.

 

[J Ed]

We can take the piss - but short of abolishing the society of the spectacle, it remains a relatively good thing that he has something of a platform to challenge the demonisation of benefits claimants and the ideological justifications around it.

1 VOTE 4 LABOUR = 1 LIKE FOR ENDING DEMONISATION OF BENEFIT CLAIMANTS

 

[butchersapron]

We can take the piss - but short of abolishing the society of the spectacle

Triple lol for ed miliband quoting Debord points. Do you know what you look like?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Abolish the society of the spectacle with voting labour as a transitional demand.

 

[frogwoman]

literally chuffed gutted chuffed gutted chuffed gutted chuffed gutted chuffed gutted chuffed gutted chuffed

 

[The39thStep]

Note what he identifies as the problem - lack of democracy. Nothing else.

Musical differences

 

[articul8]

Triple lol for ed miliband quoting Debord points. Do you know what you look like?

A bit like Tim Clark showing Tory MPs round a load of Lowry paintings?

 

[butchersapron]

A bit like Tim Clark showing Tory MPs round a load of Lowry paintings?

Get fucked you chummy twat.

 

[articul8]

Get fucked you chummy twat.

They don't like it up 'em!

 

[butchersapron]

I am literally on a charity walk!