What happened between Owen Jones and Sali Hughes over the weekend?

Have a read through the responses to Owen Jones' tweet in EweSurname's post. They are very amusing.

Champagne columnist.

Anyone aware of the Owen Jones Law?

You can guage how fucking nutty an idea is by the amount of blood vessels Owen Jones bursts.

Therefore he might say something pretty spot on and sane which you agree with. He will not tweet about it very much even if its leftie and a really valid issue or problem than needs publicity.

If it's a totally batshit idea, Owen loses his marbles. He of course generates a million tweets and retweets from those who refute the Batshittery and those who are unaware it's just part of his click bait party.

Thus we learn that Owen Jones is just a corporate media whore who sells his soul to clicks, to line his pockets and expand his media profile. He is best ignored or taken with a massive pinch of salt for this reason.

He is Reverse-Farage. Minus the car sales man coat, but equally loveable. Given a choice of who to be trapped in a lift with I'd struggle. And jump out the window instead.

I think someone must have had a word

mobile.twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1107679376236122113

Oh how I loathe him! Reminds me of the "anarchists" and "leftists" I went to college with who were endlessly politically engaged because they had all the time in the world, bankrolled by their rich parents. The actual working class students were busy with part time term time and fulltime summer jobs, so the Rik types never got to know them, or anyone like them.

That cracked me up @SaskiaRembrandt

He reminds me of Student Grant from Viz

Or an acquaintance of Rik from the Young Ones who was so annoying even Rik couldn't bear him.

He’s such a melt.

He reminds me of Student Grant from Viz

Time for this again I think...

He's doing a very good job of burning his boats. One of his posts accused the entire British press of being racist, so I doubt he has many friends outside the Guardian. And guess what? He doesn't have many friends inside the Guardian either, judging from Twitter, so in career terms that doesn't give him a lot of places to go. Maybe the BBC.

I've said this here before, but Sanctimonious Morph likes to portray himself as a working class hero because he comes from Sheffield. In reality, he is from one of the wealthiest parts of the city, and his mother was a university lecturer, so not exactly of good steel working stock. But, apparently, some miners did visit his house once, so there's that ...

Sometimes I get actual chills at how well you elucidate the reality behind the posturing, Lang.

I wish!

But he is. He's that aggravating little prick with the posh progressive parents everyone hated at school.

Cheers 😂😂😂😂

Ha ha ha. It must be so satisfying to tell little owen to fuck off. Really the whole of the UK needs to do that in unison.

That would be magnificent.

I nipped to that other thread and harvested the photo of little owen drinking champagne with our favourite flasher. It's a sight to behold. Bet they had a lot of fun.

he's your common-or-garden middle class liberal who likes to fetishise the working class while actually following a Victorian impulse to "improve the poor".

yes

Sometimes I get actual chills at how well you elucidate the reality behind the posturing, Lang.

and also yes!

Nice bit of sexism from the LOJ 'right side of history' supporters too in the comments.

he's your common-or-garden middle class liberal who likes to fetishise the working class while actually following a Victorian impulse to "improve the poor".

Sometimes I get actual chills at how well you elucidate the reality behind the posturing, Lang.

if I could be bothered to give OJ shit it would be partly because he is left wing

Yes, but Owen only identifies as left wing, radical and socialist.

In reality, he's your common-or-garden middle class liberal who likes to fetishise the working class while actually following a Victorian impulse to "improve the poor".

Exactly Ewe, most oppressed EVAHHHH.

Ive had ‘but you’re a woman’ practically spat at me. I sad ‘exactly, my biological sex is a woman but I identify as gender fluid, non binary’.

I LOVED OJ’s ”I’m... not just talking about Rod Liddle here?”

Those ellipses are a masterclass in patronising passive aggression. Also the sort of technique used by younger people who don’t really have the intelligence to argue their point so have to resort to shock and outrage instead. A bit like “Oh wow...” which OJ also used in a later tweet

I have said I identify as gender fluid non binary (with a straight face) to be met with rage & fury.

Is this because they’re then not the most oppressed?

Justa thought I especially see their male socialization & entitlement. It’s like walking on egg shells, whenever I have to talk to one about their work I check & doublecheck my language & what I say. I have said I identify as gender fluid non binary (with a straight face) to be met with rage & fury.

Oh yeps was our favourite flasher Bradley

I note with approval he was referred to as 'Squealer' in one of the screenshotted tweets.

Time for a namechange.

BRB.