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==Anti-Establishment credentials==
==Anti-Establishment credentials==
Jones has written a book called ‘The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It’. He frequently castigates politicians for being part of "the self-serving, mutual appreciation society – otherwise known as the British establishment".
Jones has written a book called ‘The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It’. He frequently castigates politicians for being part of "the self-serving, mutual appreciation society – otherwise known as the British establishment".
He was nonplussed when in September 2016 on the Today program, veteran BBC interviewer John Humphrys asked him if he was not himself part of the establishment. Jones denied it. <ref>https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/850165/Owen-Jones-BBC-Today-establishment-video-Brexit-European-Union-video</ref>
He was nonplussed when in September 2016 on the Today program, veteran BBC interviewer John Humphrys asked him if he was not himself part of the establishment. Jones denied it.<ref>https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/850165/Owen-Jones-BBC-Today-establishment-video-Brexit-European-Union-video</ref>
==Attack on Nick Clegg==
==Attack on Nick Clegg==
In December 2017, when it was announced that the former UK deputy Prime minister [[Nick Clegg]] has been nominated to a knighthood (an honorary title that confers no stipend or political power), Jones wrote a lengthy and vitriolic diatribe denouncing Clegg, who in his role as an MP and leader of the Coalition government had always bent over backwards to do everything to further the [[LGBT agenda]]. Clegg took the lead in introducing same-sex "marriage" in the UK in 2012.
In December 2017, when it was announced that the former UK deputy Prime minister [[Nick Clegg]] has been nominated to a knighthood (an honorary title that confers no stipend or political power), Jones wrote a lengthy and vitriolic diatribe denouncing Clegg, who in his role as an MP and leader of the Coalition government had always bent over backwards to do everything to further the [[LGBT agenda]]. Clegg took the lead in introducing same-sex "marriage" in the UK in 2012.
Nevertheless Jones did not have one grateful word to say for him but castigated Clegg as an "architect of our crisis-stricken nation."
Nevertheless, Jones did not have one grateful word to say for him but castigated Clegg as an "architect of our crisis-stricken nation."
<ref> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/28/knighthood-nick-clegg-george-osborne-britain-elite</ref>
<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/28/knighthood-nick-clegg-george-osborne-britain-elite</ref>
==References==
==References==