The Establishment and how they get away with it
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Owen Jones, Commentator, Columnist for The Guardian and Author of 'Chavs', delivered this lecture as part of the Durham Castle Lecture series on 21 January 2015.
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Owen talks with integrity and intelligently and I agree about how the government turns the working classes against the vulnerable and underclasses through a divide and rule policy; firing people up to envy rather than be angry with those who are the cause of inequality and poverty. When he talks about big companies' tax evasion and avoidance you can hear he really knows what he's talking about and backs up what he says with facts.
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Owen for PM
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Mmmmmm.....seriously weird....accent .....cold....or mike ???????
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A lot of people are wondering why his accent has gone funny in this.
Maybe he's got a COLD. He's saying "b" instead of "p". -
His accent is a bit like Newton Pulsifer but listen to what he says. Perhaps we are uncomfortable because his accent is not of the establishment
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The guy is amazing!!! XDDDDDD I'm in full groupie mode
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It's the mic that's making his accent sound odd. Every time he says "society" it sounds odd in exactly the same way, but when he's seated, "society" sounds fine. Must have been quite off-putting!
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Everyone is just talking about his accent!!
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All these nice intellectual debates mean nothing. Migrants are flooding from sub Saharan Africa into Southern Europe and they want to move into Northern Europe. Population growth in Africa is still exponential, and year by year the problem will get worse until Europe will either have to take drastic steps to stop the flood or else be completely overwhelmed and forever part of the Third World with all its attendant poverty and depredations. Nothing else matters.
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Hard to listen to once I realised that he reminds me of Hylda Baker talking about "Cynthia" - She knows, you know!
Happy birthday, Owen. :) -
Owen Jones looks like Harold Wilson's love child, Just imagine him smoking a pipe.
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Here's a good one for the debate. If voters don't get / demand any consumer rights from candidates..is it worth debating anything else? #VoterConsumerRights
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What is the crack with this guy's accent and pronunciation? That is not Sheffield, Stockport or anything else - pure affectation.
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Man missed a major trick when he said "I never wanted to be a writer.....". I was half expecting the backdrop to fall away, leaving a scene of never ending Canadian Pines.
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Owen Jones is always good to listen to and his newspaper must be very pleased with the work he does, Owen presents himself or his talks indicate that he is a defender of the sick and poor and the top 5% can do more to help our society. Nothing has changed much in politics in the past 100 years and what l would like to see and hear from Owen is not how westminister politics works but how it could ever be changed to level the playing fields, Owen mentions hate and envy politics which is nothing new if we are to remember the miners strikes etc, but we did not see any real solutions to change, real change. You only have to attend a state school to see how the dice are loaded against the many and compare them to private schools like eaton and harrow amongst others and see how they have their own mini replicate parliaments that allow them to practise their debating skills as they are trained and steered towards jobs in the city and government which old money has a stranglehold on, until we can change and address this disadvantage that old money runs this nation and private education prepares the next leaders then Owens efforts will be in vain .
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The left wing upper middle class Marxist elite. And how they get away with it. Complete, bloated idiot. Why have the 'liberal establishment' taken him to there hearts?
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Looks like a boy...and is ..just a boy. The economic crisis was caused by the greedy public borrowing too much money from greedy bankers. Full Stop. Everyone was at it, from all classes, including the government who should have known better. And then when the money runs out, it's pretty logical that the government, any government, has to cut back spending. Especially in areas where public sector employees are earning SIX figure salaries. To try to whip up some class war is rather rediculous. This bloke is merely a trade union stooge... Of course, he thinks he's a working class hero! God save the working classes from " college-boy intellectuals"
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.... and Scotland threw out the Labour party !!
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A man with a social conscience- no wonder the right can't stand him.
He is talking with a strange accent though- he doesn't sound like he does when he's being interviewed.
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