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19. I dunno about that. Jones needs to work on his own messaging and consistency first:

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Owen Jones
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Being denounced as a Tory, Blairite and Establishment for pointing out Twitter has limited reach is a novel experience

3:15 am - 31 Jul 2016

Owen Jones
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Barely anybody has called me a Blairite or a Tory, by the way, apart from a few eccentric oddballs. So can we drop that narrative. Cheers!

4:00 am - 1 Aug 2016

I've never rated Jones that much, and I've no idea why he's taken so seriously by some. This latest episode just confirms me in that attitude, and reinforces my earlier feelings that he has an over-inflated sense of self-importance and is surprisingly unaware of his own privileged position as a pundit - not that the vast majority of people will know who the hell he is anyway, let alone take him seriously.

I found quite a bit in his article to take with several pinches of salt. The idea that what McDonnell's proposing is identical to Balls' economic strategy for one, his assumption that anybody with any sense or experience of the world at all imagines that Twitter is 100% reflective of public opinion, let alone that activity on it alone can win political campaigns for another, and to boot, his proposition that Labour should waste any time or resources at all on trying to "win back votes in Scotland". The best of luck trying to do that while triangulating as he proposes.