Si_Crewe wrote:Gigabit wrote:Has anyone actually attacked Owen's points yet or just deflected onto other things. What a sad state of affairs the right of this country are in.
Fundamentally, he lacks any shred of credibility because he rejects anything that contradicts his prejudices.
He doesn't just disagree. He refuses to even consider the merit of anything that conflicts with his beliefs.
That being the case, it's utter hypocrisy for him to complain that "the media" has any overall bias.
To reach that conclusion, he would need to ignore the existence of any rabidly left-wing media outlets (or, perhaps, consider them "unbiased") and only fixate on the existence of equally rabid right-wing media sources.
Within the first 30 seconds of that video, he's moaning about a lack of tolerance of conflicting opinions.
That, again, demonstrates an utter lack of self awareness and massive hypocrisy, given his own refusal to consider opinions that oppose his own.
The simple fact is that he's an authoritarian collectivist and he's completely unwilling to tolerate any opinion that conflicts with his own.
He's probably further from being a Liberal, in the true sense of the word, than anybody in our current tory government.
Here's an interview with Tom Walker (Jonathon Pie) - who he seems to consider to be
right-wing - which does a great job of demonstrating everything wrong with Jones' mentality:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA6OwzQ-P1Q&t=5sHe, basically, flat-out refuses to acknowledge the merit of anything that he doesn't already agree with.