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I think a lot of journos are to the left of what they write, Owen Jones is to the right of his writing which itself is moving rightwards.
 
How could he not see what was going to happen with that jacket, f*cking no marks like the Speccie ( " Oj ponders the crisis of capitalism in £1600 jacket" ) + fake clowns like PJ Watson laughing at him, and then he turns around and bleats some moreabout " the left" going after him - Jones is becoming a liability.
 
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owen jones having his picture taken outside someone else's house.
 
tbf he does say Melenchon was trailing by some way to Hamon at the point, so it would make sense Melenchon stands down to make way for Hamon at that point... now that the polling has gone the other way the reverse is true and as he says Melenchons camp are having the "last laugh".....the fault in the piece for me is that he doesn't now suggest Hamon should stand down and fall in behind Melenchon -an act which could see Melenchon win. I guess any standing down would happen very close to the day of the vote
 
Owen rallies the troops aka 'Labour's immense grassroots army'. Hmm .

'And here’s a message for Labour’s immense grassroots army. This is your moment. No excuses: every single one must take to the streets, knocking on doors every possible night that you can, getting the message across, ensuring that on election day there’s the biggest get out the vote operation in the history of British democracy. That may make a sizeable difference in terms of how many seats are won or lost. Voting in a leadership election was not enough, or even close. Go out and fight with everything you have.'

Labour is in deep trouble, but it’s our only defence against a Tory landslide | Owen Jones
 
Owen rallies the troops aka 'Labour's immense grassroots army'. Hmm .

'And here’s a message for Labour’s immense grassroots army. This is your moment. No excuses: every single one must take to the streets, knocking on doors every possible night that you can, getting the message across, ensuring that on election day there’s the biggest get out the vote operation in the history of British democracy. That may make a sizeable difference in terms of how many seats are won or lost. Voting in a leadership election was not enough, or even close. Go out and fight with everything you have.'

Labour is in deep trouble, but it’s our only defence against a Tory landslide | Owen Jones

It, the 'grassroots army' has evaporated, many will go Green or even LD.
 
The 'immense grassroots army' disappeared in many places decades ago but Owen doesn't seem to have noticed.

The grassroots army (if it ever existed) likely never read OJ, and would never identify with OJ. They might be interested to have seen OJ flip flop around JB, and will have made an appropriate judgement.
 
Owen rallies the troops aka 'Labour's immense grassroots army'. Hmm .

'And here’s a message for Labour’s immense grassroots army. This is your moment. No excuses: every single one must take to the streets, knocking on doors every possible night that you can, getting the message across, ensuring that on election day there’s the biggest get out the vote operation in the history of British democracy. That may make a sizeable difference in terms of how many seats are won or lost. Voting in a leadership election was not enough, or even close. Go out and fight with everything you have.'

Labour is in deep trouble, but it’s our only defence against a Tory landslide | Owen Jones

'As your fearless Leader, comrades, I am determined to fight until the last person, last bullet and last drop of YOUR blood!'

'FORWARD!'
 
Some of his Facebook generated posts are "becoming" petty, almost teenage in their tone. With a hyperbolic, canary like wiff to them.

The Alistair Campbell piece generated some cognitive dissonance in me, the clunky offensive felt either like a false establishment of who was who in the interview or worse Jones felt outgunned/intimidated and needed to go out on the attack from the start (unsuccessfully) neither option looks good on Jones
 
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