BBC - Owen Jones

[frogwoman]

wtf is it with these left blogosphere/commentariat types?

 

[Sue]

Is Owen Jones on to him

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84

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@J_Bloodworth @OVER3just3 As for retweeting people calling me a fraud - I suspect that could come back to haunt you

??? (Not young Owen, who I'm pretty sure lurks on here?)

A-hem.

 

[treelover]

great repost to this new piece of disgraceful criminal justice.

 

[editor]

Nicely done, Owen.

 

[treelover]

Labour want fourteen years, ffs....

 

[emanymton]

for the record Owen, I have no problem with people committing benefit fraud

 

[RedDragon]

Owen, the jumper, what were you thinking.

 

[butchersapron]

Labour want fourteen years, ffs....

Say clearly what you mean.

 

[editor]

for the record Owen, I have no problem with people committing benefit fraud

Depends on the level and the type of fraud, no? Are you OK with professional scamsters rinsing tens of thousands of pounds out of the system through multiple accounts/IDs?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

He needs some more media training, he's spouting so many stats and messages...

 

[emanymton]

Depends on the level and the type of fraud, no? Are you OK with professional scamsters rinsing tens of thousands of pounds out of the system through multiple accounts/IDs?

Honestly? Given how small the overall amount lost to fraud is, the the sums involved must be tiny so I really don't care about it no.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Owen, the jumper, what were you thinking.

He was thinking "if they see me wearing my blue gingham shirt again, they'll think I only own one shirt", I expect.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Depends on the level and the type of fraud, no? Are you OK with professional scamsters rinsing tens of thousands of pounds out of the system through multiple accounts/IDs?

Thing is, the fuckwits have signally failed to "police" organised fraud for at least the last 2 decades, so scammers with multiple claims are a very small percentage of those that get prosecuted, as are conning bastard landlords who fuck over Housing Benefit. More than 90% of "fraud" that's prosecuted by the DWP is individual small-time fraud or (about half the time) error.

me, I'd love to see resources put into closing down professional benefit scamming, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for anyone to do anything, 'cos they won't.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

MPs and peers defrauding the public purse via their expenses, abusing their positions of authority and trust, get a year or two but poor people get up to a decade? Stinks a bit doesnt it.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Owen, the jumper, what were you thinking.

Sober, non threatening, sensible and seasonal. Its a good jumper but then I also like his shirt.

 

[butchersapron]

Labour want fourteen years, ffs....

Can you expand on this please?

 

[ViolentPanda]

MPs and peers defrauding the public purse via their expenses, abusing their positions of authority and trust, get a year or two but poor people get up to a decade? Stinks a bit doesnt it.

If they're particularly egregious in their fraud they get "a year or two". More often, they got (and get) a slapped wrist, a nod and a wink.

 

[RedDragon]

Sober, non threatening, sensible and seasonal. Its a good jumper but then I also like his shirt.

A jumper is fine, it's the little crocodile I found offensive.

 

[love detective]

i got one of them the other day (girlfriend thinks it might be a fake though)

 

[ska invita]

Owen Jones has had a twitter spat with Boycott Workfare... ho hum... republished on this nasty right wing news aggregattor style site
http://www.trendingcentral.com/owen-jones-slapped-lefties-offer-support/

 

[Ponyutd]

Guido didn't hang about posting this up.

 

[Ld222]

Owen Jones
9 hours ago
Apparently today is #InternationalMensDay. It also goes by the names of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

 

[Awesome Wells]

Owen Jones has had a twitter spat with Boycott Workfare... ho hum... republished on this nasty right wing news aggregattor style site
http://www.trendingcentral.com/owen-jones-slapped-lefties-offer-support/

What was Owen's offer/strategy?

 

[DotCommunist]

Owen Jones
9 hours ago
Apparently today is #InternationalMensDay. It also goes by the names of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

but then we chilled on sunday

 

[Awesome Wells]

Ok, i'm sure posting this will be like pulling the tiger's tail here, and I get why people are pissed off at his attitude in the twitter stuff above.

But if I'm honest, I don't get why he gets so much hate from others on the left. Not trying to be a dick, I'm honestly curious. Didn't he stick it to IDS on Question Time (and qutie probably why the dark lord has yet to make a reappearance.

Yes, I am that naive I suppose.

 

[treelover]

He is on Free Speech tonight(BBC3), interesting to see how he goes down with the youth...

Oh my, Jacob Rees Mogg is on as well, lions den....

 

[butchersapron]

Not sure 'the youth' watch it.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Jacob Rees the human Mogadon - and friend of racists!

Fucking Bath wankers voting him in. I hate the South West sometimes.

 

[butchersapron]

It was the bath labour voters that made a contest of that seat!

 

[J Ed]

Nice of the BBC to put rapper Logic on that programme, can't wait for him to expand on the anti-freemason/illuminati conspiracy keeping us all down