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'''Owen Jones''', [[socialist]] political columnist in UK, who writes for the left-wing newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]''. [[Homosexual]] and ardent proponent of the [[homosexual agenda]]. He has been described as [[Marxist]], [[Trotskyite]], [[Communist]], and [[Far-left|left-wing extremist]].
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'''Owen Jones''', born 1984, [[socialist]] political columnist in UK, who writes for the left-wing newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]''. [[Homosexual]] and ardent proponent of the [[homosexual agenda]]. He has been described as [[Marxist]], [[Trotskyite]], [[Communist]], and [[Far-left|left-wing extremist]].
    
==Background==
 
==Background==
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Jones went to a comprehensive (state-run) school in Stockport, then to [[Oxford University]]. He joined the UK Labour party, worked as a parliamentary researcher and supported the selection of far-left [[Jeremy Corbyn]] as leader.
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Jones went to a comprehensive (state-run) school in Stockport, then to [[Oxford University]] which now has a system of reserving a percentage of places for such pupils. He joined the UK Labour party, worked as a parliamentary researcher and supported the selection of [[Jeremy Corbyn]] as leader.
      
==Opinions on Economics==
 
==Opinions on Economics==
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<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSC3RMstJl8</ref>
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Jones has written a succession of articles defending the record of the socialist government of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. As Venezuela has lurched into more and more severe economic crisis, with government repression and high crime rates, Jones has never retreated from his position. Even when the inflation rate in Venezuela reached 13,000 per cent in February 2018, prompting a mass exodus of citizens, Jones continued to praise the success of the government's socialist policies.
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Jones has written a succession of articles defending the record of the socialist government of [[Hugo Chávez]] in Venezuela. As Venezuela has lurched into more and more severe economic crisis, with government repression and high crime rates, Jones has never retreated from his position. Even when the inflation rate in Venezuela reached 13,000 per cent in February 2018, prompting a mass exodus of citizens, Jones continued to praise the success of the government's socialist policies.
 
<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/owen-jones-socialism-s-critics-look-at-venezuela-and-say-we-told-you-so-but-they-are-wrong-9155295.html</ref>
 
<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/owen-jones-socialism-s-critics-look-at-venezuela-and-say-we-told-you-so-but-they-are-wrong-9155295.html</ref>
 
<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/hugo-chavez-was-a-democrat-not-a-dictator-and-showed-a-progressive-alternative-to-neo-liberalism-is-8522329.html</ref>
 
<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/hugo-chavez-was-a-democrat-not-a-dictator-and-showed-a-progressive-alternative-to-neo-liberalism-is-8522329.html</ref>
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==Erratic Behavior==
 
==Erratic Behavior==
 
In June 2016 Jones walked out of a live television interview about the mass killing in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in protest at his interviewer's refusal to name the shooting an attack on LGBT people. He insisted it was “ a homophobic hate crime and it has to be called out."
 
In June 2016 Jones walked out of a live television interview about the mass killing in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in protest at his interviewer's refusal to name the shooting an attack on LGBT people. He insisted it was “ a homophobic hate crime and it has to be called out."
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When Sky News host Mark Longhurst said Mr. Jones could not suggest the Orlando attack was “worse” than the Bataclan terror attack, Jones became increasingly exasperated, insisting, “This was a deliberate attack on LGBT people.” Finally, saying. “I’ve had enough of this,” he took off his microphone and left the set, admitting he was "upset".<ref>
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When Sky News host Mark Longhurst said Mr. Jones could not suggest the Orlando attack was “worse” than the Bataclan terror attack in Paris, Jones became increasingly exasperated, insisting, “This was a deliberate attack on LGBT people.” Finally, saying. “I’ve had enough of this,” he took off his microphone and left the set, admitting he was "upset".<ref>
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/owen-jones-walks-off-sky-news-after-presenters-deflect-homophobia-behind-orlando-shooting-a7078891.html
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/owen-jones-walks-off-sky-news-after-presenters-deflect-homophobia-behind-orlando-shooting-a7078891.html
 
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It was later revealed that the terrorist, Omar Mateen, was a homosexual himself, and had long been a familiar client of the club he attacked.
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It was later revealed that the Orlando terrorist, Omar Mateen, was a homosexual himself, and had long been a familiar client of the club he attacked.
    
==Anti-Establishment credentials==
 
==Anti-Establishment credentials==
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