Ask Me Anything: Labour, cats, Biden, the NHS and thirst traps

[@OwenJonesTalks]

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[@nowthenzen]

in the 20th Century American Democrats did WW1, WW2, Korean and Vietnam wars. It wasn't until Bush/Shrub got into office that Repubs started doing wars.

[@Anthony_Romford]

why are you and labour all communists? and want to see the end of the west? if you think labour will ever get elected again tyhen your living in your own fantasy land, if labour gets elected it will be the end of the UK and white people by 2050.

[@midgerhys5627]

I was intrigued by your statement that the Tories never introduce any useful social reforms. Would you say that David Cameron's administration's legislating for the introduction of same-sex marriage was not a useful social reform?

[@Anthony_Romford]

@@midgerhys5627 the tories have been in government for the last 14 years. and labour did not get a look in not under miliband not under corbyn and starmer has no policies apart from contining mass immigration that blair startred,. Jones is not gay or bi he just virtual signals and pretends he is gay that is why you have never seen him with a boyfriend,

[@Anthony_Romford]

@@midgerhys5627 go look how many people in this christian fought against legislating it and they the tories slid it throug the back door. i would not trust cameron as far as i can throw him and not is not very far. that goes for may, liz truss or rishi sunak. all anti british and all globalists

[@callyyeadon2653]

Hi Owen ..I mentioned earlier Gary Stevenson (Gary’s Economics) ..I was gobsmacked by his latest video “Debt & the fiscal black Hole”..& also his first “How COVID19 makes the rich richer” I first read about him a Guardian article by Rupert Neate (2nd July) ..I feel it needs to be widely shared !..would love to see him on your show😊

[@OwenJonesTalks]

hey you! thanks for this! I actually interviewed him very recently! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZLLfWt3l9utmKs

[@Alan-xxxxxx]

I liked your honest response regarding veganism. Having never even considered it, I initially went vegetarian as a New Year's Resolution and then vegan a few months later. That was 4 years ago and I've never looked back or eaten so healthily. It does help living in Brighton where there are plenty of like minded individuals and ample eateries to choose from.

[@mancalledson]

I'm jealous of anyone that lives in close proximity to Happy Maki. 😄

[@debrajjones2589]

I enjoyed this very much, so nice to have a piece lasting more than 5 minutes!

[@Adamb87]

Streeting is everything that's wrong with Labour. Zarah Sultana is everything that's right with Labour, but current leadership wants more Wes's and no Zarah's , insanity

[@PortilloMoment]

Because that's what Middle England wants and that's where the swing seats are. As a method of winning an election it's sensible, given the voting system we have. The problem is that inevitably you get identikit parties designing their appearance and policies to appeal to the same people, causing anyone outside that group to be ignored. That's what we have now and have had since the mid 1990s. Starmer is going on about some mythical indigenous workforce he'd prefer - solely designed to appeal to racists in middle class, middle income Middle England. Same with Streeting whining on about how he sees the path to improvement in public services as having to come from the private sector. Politics in the UK is solely concerned with the interests and prejudices of a narrow band of people. It makes the political class a parasite on the voters outside this important demographic. If we want to change that then we'll need PR and proper, effective media regulation. Don't hold your breath.

[@f0xylady100]

Wonderful show!! Wish I'd watched it live.

[@metalhead2550]

Watched the whole thing, very interesting Owen! Please do more, seemed like a great way to directly engage with your audience :)

[@idaloup6721]

One hour and a half. Amazing superchat. All by myself too therefore on this Sunday evening It was great and especially super interesting for the French I am. I didn't know what thirst traps meant ( I'm an age-old 49 ) so I googled It. I will fall asleep a bit more educated 😉 Have a nice evening

[@heatherhayward553]

Brilliant, Owen. Lovely to hear your thoughts on random stuff. Had I been around to do so I would have asked if you got ‘custody’ of the cats because it has been worrying me.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Enjoyed this

[@alastair6356]

How do we reclaim democracy from the mainstream partys that are in the pockets of big business and corporations.

[@rolandrothwell4840]

By voting Green or Liberal Democrat! The Starmer party is pink Tories who will do the bidding of the neoliberalist class and their agenda

[@callyyeadon2653]

Thanks Owen 😊..great video ..Please look up Gary’s Economics “ Debt and the Fiscal Black Hole “ .. essential reading & sharing

[@ronnieh2360]

Enjoyed this.

[@mb7290]

Only sat down to watch 10 minutes of this and watched the whole thing. Very entertaining and fairly informative Owen! Also really sorry to hear about you and your partner, hope you're okay man.

[@OwenJonesTalks]

❤️

[@SkinBoss]

Great hoodie mate!

[@bethmcard10]

I am genuinely surprised to hear about Andy Burnham. I always respected him for what he did to help Hillsborough victims. You learn something new every day!

[@mikegrace]

What did he actually do?

[@vanisha6000]

do this again !!!

[@TheSeanj87]

This was great Owen and I think if you ever did like a phone in show it would be a amazing, in the vein of Majority Report, although I know that could be complex and difficult to sort out

[@colinandrews1118]

Diana cooper promoting a great future for us hope she's right ! Owen love Colin

[@colinandrews1118]

Daily exercise 😃 healthy diet ☺️ art 😃 keeps me going

[@gillmoran2018]

❤❤❤

[@dovic86]

since I'm going to watch an hour-and-a-half long AMA session, I wholeheartedly hope it includes at least one question about cats :)

[@michaeladkins6]

I live in the US Midwest. One of the most conservative of states. I met a wonderful man in Bristol who has my best friend and more? Anyway, I ignore my own local politics in favor of all things Briton. I am a gay socialist seeking out other gay and or socialist KZbinrs. I have subscribed.

[@sama2086]

you should do this more Owen I liked you in this much more than usual 🤣

[@reddirtuk]

I would like you to devote a programme to the Labour files on Al Jazeera . you seem to be avoiding the issue.

[@antispindr8613]

Would now that, and just what happened inside Labour Party HQ, be an ideal subject for a future show?

[@markreynolds8871]

We all need Owens hoodie this winter to keep us all warm.with Owen in it?could you do a slot on the horrible gb and talk TV and radio.lovely cats🤯

[@antispindr8613]

QUESTION: Should not Starmer address concerns as to just what happened within Labour Party HQ?

[@Acolyte_501st]

I’d love an Owen Jones fitness guide! There’s loads out there obviously but I’ve not seen any from someone I know I can trust yet

[@paulross6727]

We hear a lot about ''independent pay review boards'' I'd ask, who is on these boards, I would guess not many trade unionists or ordinarily working people and how much are they paid for doing the job?

[@jodie6881]

Warranted comment on Obama !

[@stephenhardy312]

The future is bright, the future is ORANGE!!

[@kaytsippy1981]

I feel like Andy Burnham regrets "hurtling off to the right" because it was a bad career move and he sensed, through the popularity of Corbyn in Manchester, that leaning Left again would make him popular. Not a trustworthy guy.

[@juliewake4585]

Indeed. It would be wonderful, ifs little surprising, if politicians had principals wouldn’t it?

[@steveturner6770]

Point is Andy Burnham is very electable whereas Corbyn is not. It's all about power. Without power then nothing can be achieved.

[@TheInfiltrator101]

zzzzz still banging on about Corbyn, let it go ffs

[@steveturner6770]

@@TheInfiltrator101 I guess they still bang on about Corbyn because they miss him & his unelectabilty .... the oposite of Blair. They bang on about him all he time as he used to wipe the floor with those Tories & they're scared of that. As they'd rather be in opposition to than defeat the Tories.

[@michaelbentley517]

If Burnham is the answer, then the wrong questions are being asked ...... A 2 party system that always ensures that Capitalism rules ... we need a social revolution with millions on the streets .... Make Governments work for equality & fairness across the board ..... It happened after ww2 .....

[@rolandrothwell4840]

I so agree with you. The labour party are so far from the idea of social democracy

[@Gooner184]

You should do these more often, perhaps like a weekly or at least monthly thing?

[@toriesdontgettazered7464]

I'm sure the victim's of the highland clearances and England brutal rule against the Scots has escaped your thinking

[@HomeGrownVeg]

Owen ask me anything. We want more money and we want more nurses. You cant have more money we haven't got any more money and we are recruiting 1000,s of nurses. Question! If there's no money how are the government going to pay for more nurses. Doesn't add up.

[@dayooke1148]

happy gay pride month to my no 1 superhero of the LGBTQ community in the UK today and for the forseeable future SIR OWEN JONES

[@froufou100]

I missed the live - I will only ask you this once Owen so think carefully but will you marry me 🤣🤣

[@vitezroman8569]

i'm so sorry i missed this! will you make more chatty videos in the future?

[@OwenJonesTalks]

sure!

[@razorednight]

Private education is an awful institution. My school was a grammar school for my first couple of years, then it became independent. I was able to carry on there because the local educational authority paid my fees. The school became a bastion of snobbery, we were told repeatedly that we were in the "top 1% of the population", we were the people who would go on to run the country. And this was an ex-grammar school, not Eton! The people running the school really did think we were better than everyone else simply because it was an independent school. I see no reason why these schools can be called charities and enjoy the tax breaks and other benefits that charitable status confers. If independent schools aren't abolished they should certainly be treated just like any other business. There's nothing laudable about teaching the offspring of the rich to see themselves as our natural rulers.

[@dotcheckley3369]

Burmese cats can be street cats too, but please adopt a scared street cat. A scared neglected cat would feel safer and although not a 'pack' animal they do learn how to trust a human from other cats. Mind the regular food might have something to do with that too :)

[@Harbingerz1]

Around which corner would I bump into you? I feel like a bit of Whitman, and a bit of Auden; it's 11:38PM in Brussels, and I don't know where you are, whether you're busy with: eyeing that man across the counter, one finger tapping a glass with family, mother on the phone or giving a hand to brush father's heavy car's rims, stained with drying dirt. Are you watching TV? It's 11:53 now, 15 minutes captured into one single timeless vision: a broken smile lost in countless head tilts. A love letter scattered in the Enlightenments. 12:00, I send.

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

Owen's response on the vegan question was insufficient and quite ignorant - it's a key Left issue

[@revensteed9539]

What do you think of Aljazeera channel's "Labour Files"?

[@DanielleA2023]

What do you think about AOC? What do you think about Jacinda Adhern? Have you heard about the Greens Party in Australia?

[@miltonkarl664]

I don’t know about thirst traps..

[@slomas8863]

Phil Mccracken?

[@peenjedoyle1010]

Is the Green Party right wing then?

[@rolandrothwell4840]

The green politics are very radical and social democract, something the present Labour Party will never be

[@mrso9399]

What about the Welsh language oppression through the blue books Owen? Some dreadful stuff was written about us.

[@tonyjones9442]

and North Wales shouldn't be ruled by Cardiff!

[@mrso9399]

@@tonyjones9442 🤣 is that your contribution? 🤣

[@tonyjones9442]

@@mrso9399 ydw, oes ti ddim yn cytuno? 🤣🤣

[@feveredbrow]

Owen you need to take Richard Madeley to task .. who does he think he is .. he needs to go.. he is losing time from doing his Christmas shopping at Tesco’s .. 😡😡 how dare he talk to a decent honest man like mick lynch who is he trying to impress..

[@johnthrussell1377]

Who owns the n h s

[@andyjay7337]

Phil mcrackin? Did I hear correctly or is this the old 1970’s schoolboy trope about gay dentists?

[@PurityVendetta]

Owen, nothing is ever going to stop me liking you as a person but I have to disagree with you about the issue of animal rights v. welfare. Any sentient being needs a basic set of rights. I know they might not in the traditional way be able to contribute to forming the structure of those rights but that puts the obligation on we beings able to form moral choices to air on the side of caution. Most of the animal industrial structures under a capitalist framework rely on the exploitation of the female reproductive system. Intersectionality should extend to other species as there is no reason other than taste, pleasure and profit to continue the status quo. Love you, but I do hope I make you think as you have done re myself.

[@akpanekpo6025]

When did you mutate into a cheerleader for royalty, Owen? I hate to write this about my journalistic hero, but more fool me, for believing your supposed visceral opposition to the very idea of royalty. It turns out this opposition was always contingent and not principled at all. For you’ve mutated into an eager cheerleader for a royal, just because she calls herself a feminist eco-warrior and champion of social justice, her countless, brazen falsehoods and hypocrisies in regard to each of these causes be damned. I despair.

[@markreynolds8871]

Doesn't gb and talk TV preach to the right wing converted❤️

[@Nickstraw]

i dont think i could on hear Owen :)

[@jamescooke6032]

Love how there is no enthusiasm for starmer, but he will win the next election.. Something the whole corbynism movement couldn't do... That's odd isn't it?

[@Robins_fan_Dan]

Probably because the Tories forced the last election to be a de facto Brexit referendum. As much as I like Corbyn he was weak on challenging Brexit, that’s why Labour lost in 2019

[@petermclelland278]

What the f**k is 'streeting' ?

[@coreyc1685]

On the vegan/vegetarian issue I think you're looking at it wrong. You said you didn't want to start until you could fully commit but every meal is an opportunity to cause less animal suffering. Even if you're a vegan you're still causing *some* animal suffering. Just far, far less than a non-vegan. There is no point of ethical perfection to currently be reached. Even if a few meals a week you have lentils, beans, tofu, tempeh, etc instead of meat you're making a difference because fewer animals will get bred into a life of suffering. Maybe just try being as vegan as you can be for now.

[@sarahlawson6183]

Ask you anything thing Owen? Are you like the Oracle at Delphi now? Is there no question that your high minded genius can’t cope with? Or are you in fact more suited to be play the lefty jester on day time Channel 5?

[@OwenJonesTalks]

you ok Sarah

[@gavingerard2053]

Owen is frustratingly cute and equally frustratingly idealistic. Politics often involves brutal, hard and dirty compromise and that's where Labour look to be currently, but with a great chance of taking power at the next GE.

[@Papillion-Man]

Missed the live show. But when you mentioned you'll concentrate on superchat very early on you would have lost me at that point. I like your shows, and I know you have to fund your channel. But when you have a title saying "ask me any questions" then state that, I think you will lose your core audience. Talk about cash for questions ffs Owen.

[@OwenJonesTalks]

if I went through the other comments it would take me 10 years to get through a show, I struggled to get through the superchats as it was! and "cash for scandals" refers to the corruption of parliamentary democracy where rich people buy themselves political influence, I really don't think that's relevant!

[@Papillion-Man]

@Owen Jones My point was as a subscriber to your channe,I receive notifications to a up and coming stream. As I said I was disappointed that you only chose to answer paid questions. That really can alienate some of your viewers. It peeved me enough to add a comment and at the same time to hope you might not repeat that in the future. But your channel Owen your choice if you want to make it an exclusive club to just paying questions.

[@JasLoney]

TOPIC #1 for me! WHEN are you coming to NYC so I can look into those oh-so-perfect-eyes personally and plant a sublte chaste kiss on your lips?! Hoping you are well and keep on boyo doing EXACTLY what you have been doing. With seasonal greetings and much admiration

[@markscott7324]

I was looking for the best source of viagra and now I am here. 👀👀

[@bensc260]

Got anything to say on the socialist left eu parliament members accepting bribes to promote qatar? Or does that not fit with your right wing are bigots agender ?