Owen Jones

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Smiler.

11,752 posts

230 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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techiedave said:
S1KRR said:
i THINK that might be a parody account.

Ever since Tatiana, I cant tell anymore.
It is
It's run by a London guy with a dry sense of humour.
Not you, is it?

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voyds9

8,488 posts

283 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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garyhun said:
George Smiley said:
I’m sure he did something on the bbc
He did and I’m desperately trying to remember the program. It was another piece of classic car crash TV from him though biggrin.
Wasn't it after a shooting at a gay club in the US

He flounced off as neither of the presenters were gay and therefore they could not understand the agony he was going through by not knowing anyone in the group that had died

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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garyhun said:
George Smiley said:
I’m sure he did something on the bbc
He did and I’m desperately trying to remember the program. It was another piece of classic car crash TV from him though biggrin.
I thought from what Georgeposted earlier ie
George Smiley said:
Guys a prize tit. I’m glad the bbc dropped him after his outburst.
That Mr Jones had been dropped by the BBC in some way which is why I genuinely asked. From what I can tell he hasn't been "dropped" in any way and will appear as and when they decide to use him

I suspect that the programme others are thinking of is the Victoria Derbyshire chaired debate thing about the Panoroma Labour anti Semitism broadcast

voyds9 said:
Wasn't it after a shooting at a gay club in the US

He flounced off as neither of the presenters were gay and therefore they could not understand the agony he was going through by not knowing anyone in the group that had died
It's going round in circles.which happens with long threads. His flounce was on the Sky News one that reviewed the papers and coverage of the shootings in the USA. This in turn was picked up by various news outlets who used the footage extensively. It originally occurred on the sky news newspaper review slot

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 19th August 23:24

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 19th August 2019
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Smiler. said:
techiedave said:
S1KRR said:
i THINK that might be a parody account.

Ever since Tatiana, I cant tell anymore.
It is
It's run by a London guy with a dry sense of humour.
Not you, is it?

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No I do have one on there that is (to me anyway blatantly absurd ) but it focuses more on Mayor Khan / Caroline Lucas and Emily Thornberry.
It did have a cracking result once when I suggested that David Lammy should be deselected for showing disloyalty to Jeremy Corby.
Sadiq Khan is brilliant to ridicule he is a genuine gift and the sheer volume of his " I was there too" type tweets is staggering.

Murph7355

37,713 posts

256 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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DeepEnd said:
All the right wingers seem frustrated that his injuries are not serious enough.

No doubt the same snowflakes crying about that horrid milkshake.

Extremist physical political attacks are not acceptable full stop.
Nobody is frustrated with someone not being that injured (not even Owen Jones, who's an obnoxious prat regardless of politics, sexual orientation or any other mantle he shouts about).

The frustration is with an obnoxious prat overplaying what happened to him and instantly assuming it's because of his views that he was "singled out". I doubt that very much - I doubt most people would know him from Adam if they saw him in the street. And judging by the way he's been on every TV programme I've seen him on, he does have a habit of acting like a dick (again, no excuse for a slap...but as per the links above with him whining about everything, some introspection wouldn't hurt).

Sa Calobra

37,126 posts

211 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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I've never heard of him before the incident.

How did he know he was targeted? What did the attackers say to make him think this?

eliot

11,428 posts

254 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Sa Calobra said:
I've never heard of him before the incident.

How did he know he was targeted? What did the attackers say to make him think this?
Watch the youtube video of him sulky storming off the sky newspaper review above. He’s a bit of an emotional petal.

zygalski

7,759 posts

145 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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techiedave said:
The vile and outrageous posts on here are the sort of thing that allows Owen to justifiably make this claim.

At least you're not letting it get to you.

eliot

11,428 posts

254 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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zygalski said:
techiedave said:
The vile and outrageous posts on here are the sort of thing that allows Owen to justifiably make this claim.

At least you're not letting it get to you.
He puts himself in the spotlight to garner attention. If you don’t like attention positive or negative then do not put yourself in the public eye.

Vanden Saab

14,072 posts

74 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Smiler. said:
It's official, Brexit beat up Owen.



Full lunacy here:

https://twitter.com/CorbynistaEdith/status/1163370...
There is some comedy gold in the replies... I particularly liked 'At least my vote wasn't wasted' Worked on so many levels.

chow pan toon

12,387 posts

237 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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golf_addict said:
“All the right wingers..”?

Looks like ///adj is making things up again!
You know a lot about posters banned before you joined.

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Sa Calobra said:
I've never heard of him before the incident.

How did he know he was targeted? What did the attackers say to make him think this?
Shouldn’t we be saying ‘alleged’ attackers at the moment?


Mothersruin

8,573 posts

99 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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He never got beaten up.

Jazzy Jag

3,422 posts

91 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Mothersruin said:
He never got beaten up.
But there is a growing queue of volunteers.

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

224 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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This twitter thread sums Owen up a treat....

https://twitter.com/ajcdeane/status/11635337197450...

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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gizlaroc said:
This twitter thread sums Owen up a treat....

https://twitter.com/ajcdeane/status/11635337197450...
Do you think he’ll make an appearance? wink

Trax

1,537 posts

232 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Lentilist said:
Trax said:
That's his angle. He said in the interview he was attacked by the Far Right, and then, referencing the Far Right, he said, 'they' killed Jo Cox, 'they' rammed a crowd at a Mosque, 'they' plotted to murder another MP.

He then went on to imply that Trump is Far Right, and Boris is of the same ilk.

Its all a narrative to demonise anybody with an opposite view of his Far Left....

Funny he doesn't refer to 'they' as in Muslims when there is a Terrorist attack, its an individual, with mental issues.
Are you suggesting those events weren't carried out by those on the far right? If you think labeling National Action far right is demonising them, we're in a very strange place indeed.
No, I would think the individuals concerned had Far Right views, and were influenced by that, or mental illness, or a combination.

But, Owen is not saying that, he uses the word Far Right to label pretty much everyone who is moderately to the right of his views. So, in the interview yesterday, he mentioned Trump, Farage, Brexiters, Tomy Robinson et all, indicating they were Far Right. He then went on to say the Far Right, using the term 'Them' to describe the Far Right, as the people (rather than some nutjob individuals), who kill. Its his M.O. to label a vast swathe of society, including the 52% that voted brexit, as the 'them' that also attacked him. Its divisional politics, at its worst.

George Smiley

5,048 posts

81 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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He makes himself easy to be disliked

Puggit

48,439 posts

248 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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There's a video of a radio interview where he describes the military precision of the attack.

Not a mark on his face.

Mothersruin

8,573 posts

99 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Puggit said:
There's a video of a radio interview where he describes the military precision of the attack.

Not a mark on his face.
Or on his hands & elbows which tend to get road rash if you hit the ground.

He's a bullstter.