Should Jeremy Corbyn be suspended from the parliamentary Labour party? | Owen Jones interview

Owen Jones is a journalist and Labour party activist. He spoke to Oli Dugmore about the racism of the British media and Jeremy Corbyn's suspension from the parliamentary Labour party over anti-Semitism.

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[liamclarke]

Even the left media can't put Corbyns comments in context 🙄
He 100% awknowledged the problem & agreed with the recommendations of the EHRC report.
His comments about the scale & politicising of the issue were his right of reply (defended in the report), after the media disgraced themselves in the presser & made the whole thing about him.

[jc]

Hate crimes aren't 'soaring', the Home Office themselves acknowledge that ‘increases in hate crime over the last five years have been mainly driven by improvements in crime recording by the police’.

[rivolinho]

At least if the Brexit commentary career falls through he can always go back in time and start a 90s boyband.

[unabashed]

Interviewer looks like he’s coming down from a tremendous night out.

[chrisgriffin]

this is where Corbyn needs to hold the ones who knowingly lied about him, with in Labour and in the news accountable or the slanderous anti-Corbyn, bullshit peddlers will never stop attacking him, for fighting for the right things.

[TheMarnaiz]

Just because you think the 'timing' was wrong - what Corbyn said, wasn't. Starmer himself has not been able to answer the question: 'What rule has Corbyn broken?' It's a bloody farce and was meant, solely, to embarrass Corbyn. Starmer wasn't prepared for the backlash from pro-Corbyn supporters, hence the reason they've 'allowed' Corbyn back in. Removing the whip was just plain nasty on Starmer's part. And btw, ANYONE can join any Facebook page, pretend they're a Corbyn supporter and spout racism. Do you honestly think that those vehemently against Jeremy wouldn't be tempted to do such a thing? Come on!

[drmlucid]

Haha owen Jones is so funny! He's got s list of facts that he's been getting worked up about all day...

[noordinarylives]

On what grounds was JC suspended? Does anybody know?

[mechabits]

NO, discrimination cuts both ways, but it seems ok if its directed at corbyn

[beachboss]

The thing is, you say Corbyn should be let back in, but in the next breath are saying that Corbyn should have more emotional inteligence and learn from this. The problem is he isn't, he's flat out refusing because really this is about his legacy. Thats piss poor in my opinion and I don't think Starmer should let him in until he does apologies publicly.

[sarahjessicafarter]

4:26 We see this done often in anglophone media where readers and viewers are lied to about the explicitly neonazi bent of movements in non-anglophone nations. We're lied to that Golden Dawn are just good, old-fashioned Greek patriots with the liar knowing his audience cannot understand Greek so will just take his word for it. Those who do understand Greek can find out Golden Dawn's leader was very far from patriotic. He instead referred to Germany as his "motherland" and described the Greek people as "weak".

[SydBarrettsGhost]

We're still waiting for what actually is the definition of Islamophobia and also what constitutes hate speech ? waiting

[DJFAmenHeavy]

Ugh. This channel has reached the bottom. Unsubscribed

[elliotwatson]

"It's s a factory of racism and hatred.".Not really, is the Times or the Independent racist?

[anthonydavis]

Love him or hate him, he’s entitled to his opinion and he isn’t afraid of debate like some on the left who just want to shut down discussion.

I don’t always agree with him but I do listen to him

I would say about the media dedicating its resources towards negative stereotypes I would love to see a study towards the media’s views on white European males. I hear plenty of attacks on this demographic but very few if no positive stories towards this group. If a positive story about an individual who happens to be a white male, the fact that he is a white male is never mentioned.

It’s claimed that white makes are automatically respected because of their inherent privileges? Is it really? Maybe in white suburban areas, not in a lot of other places though

[jacklewis]

Personally I don’t think Corbyn was an anti-Semite, but I don’t think he took a strong enough stance on anti-semitism. He shouldn’t be suspended, he should just apologise and admit he could’ve done a lot more.

[MARTINA-gctq]

The Guardian loves using the phrase "Government U Turn" ....did the labour party do a U turn over respecting the Brexit referendum?

[hariowen]

What on earth's with that Keir Starmer hair style Owen???

[jamesen]

Owen Jones talks about there being two Labour Party machines. Then says that Kier Starmer shouldn't do something different to the Labour Party machines. He says that no one is talking about implementing the EHRC recommendations yet Kier Starmer said that the reason Corbyn wasn't being readmitted because he hadn't apologised and an independent process should be in place before he was allowed back into the PLP.

Jones is obsessed with saying 'the left need to learn the lessons from...' yet 'the left' he represents have been saying the same thing for 70 years. They never learn. They never change.

[MARAK]

The fact that Owen Jones (who i have my differences with) gets so much criticism on here, when his political aims are about improving most people's lives, from the very people whose lives he wants to see get better, is sad.