Well this didn’t age to well

So this month Owen's a Corbynist. This feels a lot more like it's about personality and history. Rather short on substance, with a few notable exceptions.

I died of cringe at the start of this video. No idea how I am still typing this?

It's now 2020. This video is a bit like watching a happy family holiday video - knowing that they die in a car crash at the end of the holiday!

As someone who wants a better Britain, I found this unbearable to watch.

Damn that episode of qtime was two years ago?

Free Helicopter rides for Commies

This labour conference video is very full guardian

Interested to know what the "new ways of campaigning" are. Most activists I have talked to (across the parties) seem to have a very narrow view of politics in general and a particular lack of understanding when it comes to basic principles.

No such thing as a peaceful revolution

Are the comments on this video being checked before being allowed to be posted? I have seen a few crop up and disappear, are there too many to allow? A bit disappointing since your earlier videos didn't have too many responses.

Anyone know if the girl at 2 mins has any social media

Hey ho we met at lancs pride I feel so silly for not recognising you though! Tbf cat remembered my trump joke so

Looks like the trolls are back, Tory Glastonbury must have finished! :-)

Let me exemplify the problem for you Jeremy: I am a left leaning liberal and I don't vote Lab or Con, however, if i were forced to choose it would be the Conservatives.... easily.

The London conference was a great success

There is nothing more satisfying that taking other peoples money and giving it to people you feel sorry for.

You went full Guardian in this video. Never go full Guardian!

I love a man who likes a half pint! 😉 Exciting video. Looking forward to today's speech!

I am young and middle class and live in Jeremy Corbyns constituency so i should at least statistically be a labour supporter but for some reason i am really uncomfortable with some of labour voters/supporters mainly just the middle class north London socialist and that's why at least I think if labour wasn't so forceful and annoying with its supporters more people would vote for it and it could get into government.

I consider myself to the left but watching this video makes me want to vote Tory - and I've never voted Tory in my life.

Lol didn’t turn out right well did it 😂

Well the basic truth is that because of the growing gap between the top rich and the rest people now voting all around the world against the establishment, which for them represents the few but not the many.Then we had the economic crisis which is far away from ending no matter what some people are saying , then we had Brexit which again was a vote against the establishment. Sadly people now is voting Against rather than For.And inevitably Labour are going to win the next elections not just because of what they are doing but because of the mess Tories has created in the last year.If I'm an adviser I should say , do not do any hard moves, put yourself as an opposition of the establishment and you will get the office

Could you do a video on the rise of the far right in Germany recently ? With the AFD tripling their vote shares, and being the first far right party in Germany for the past 70 years, that has gained any MPs

Is another General Election imminent? I thought the next one was due for May 2022!

Owen looks quite funny drinking a pint.

OOHHH " JEREMY CORBYN " OOHHH " JEREMY CORBYN " you"ll need more than a song to get in power

This aged well 😂

Boris and diplomacy go together like Freddy Krueger and a nursery. Yet Res-Mog manages to make Boris look good by comparison.

Thanks Owen, forget the haters, what you espouse needs to be the future. Keep going. Loved your book, everyone should read it. I think, generally, the UK suffers from 'not knowing', lack of knowledge. It's so heartening to see young people engaging, as an old guy, it puts a smile on my face, I feel hope.

We did a podcast analysing the Labour conference! Give it a listen ;)

that granny is a champion

Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

Great video

Owen, please attend the Tory party conference with 10 bodyguards to see if it gets the same attention as Laura Kuenssbeg.

Jones is at home in Brighton ! Looks like he's giving his butt a rest !

I am 61 and remember the problems caused by the present model the Labour Party is promoting. The country was in a greater mess in the late 1960's and during the 1970's, due as a direct result of powerful greedy trade unions. If we nationalise trains, power, water and the rest, then the Government becomes the employer, so instead of localised strikes in the South East rail network they become national strikes. It was the outcome of these sort of Labour policies that led directly to them being in a political wilderness for 25 years. So, no Owen you will not win over older voters with these policies, you will allienate them. You got a fair result in the last election, but you did not win and as Alistair Campbel pointed in your recent interview, you won't win reverting back to 1960's politics. Like it or lump it Tony Blair changed the fortunes of the Labour Party and John Prescott brought in some interesting creative ideas. You may not like what they did, but they brought changes and gained power for Labour, which I doubt Corby will suceed in doing. You will end up disappointed as utopiean political idiological dreams fail.

The Labour party used to be a working class party they are now regarded by many as a ethnic party.

Lots of people who lost the last election join in a room to pretend it didn't happen.

Labour should be renamed, The Self-destruction of United Kingdom party.

I don't see many workers here. Only students and teachers and paid up activists.

It's A Sure Start up Owen and wonderful that so many people are coming together....

We need a FAR RIGHT party if imagration is not controlled BRITAIN is finished. VOTE UKIP

Welcome home, Owen. Missed you. Glad to have you back.

I envy Britain for that.

and look how old that progress has been undone with the master class choosing Starmer.

The Ket The Key is to Care about The People and not the government agenda

It's interesting that the attendees mention a 'paradigm shift, transforming the country, changing the culture, new energy, re-engaging people in politics, shaping the nation agenda'.... Mention that they have more in common with UKIP than they'd care to admit & they'd freak out.

Does anyone have info about how much Labour's membership has grown since the election? I heard it was 600,000 and has now grown to more than 800,000, at least according to the BBC and Reuters, anyone got more on this, ie with connections to Labour? I expect there must be some people reading this who would know.

I hope there's policy influence moreover actually direct interface and transformation in useful services and informal democracy for the people not just commercial lobbyists etc. Though expectations must not be dashed, fall flat, go stale or overcook. We must not poison the keg. We need to make the best decisions at all levels. Actually deliver without much dropped. No nasty surprises. Some of this will involve hard choices and/or honesty. Or be slower to turn around or it could be faster than people think. Probably slower.

The word sycophant comes to mind

start of video , i had enough already ..

God help us and I dont believe in god! lol

Housing safety standards have come into sharp focus since last week’s devastating fire in west London that left at least 79 people dead or presumed dead, and dozens more injured. Since 2015, Labour has put two pieces of legislation before Parliament to try and improve housing safety for council houses and privately rented properties. The Tories have blocked both. The fact many are landlords......

Hannibal the Cannibal, Vlad the Impaler, Thatcher the Snatcher.

Dear Mr Jones (dear Owen), I am writing to you with great sorrow after watching your twitter allocution on the Catalonian crisis. I've been following you since you came to notoriety in Spain, mostly as a result of your support to PODEMOS (for which, I confess, I voted in every election since 2015 -the PODEMOS movement first became a political party in late 2014) and I am proud and happy to say that I share most of your views on topics about which I hold sufficient knowledge as to be able to have an own-developed coherent view of. I am very disappointed in you not exactly because of your support to Catalonian right to self-determination but because of the "broad brush" kind of arguments you brought forward in the said allocution, which might be summarised as follows: a. self-determination is an absolute right of peoples. b. if individuals can divorce, regions/territories/peoples can secede. I am astounded by the lack of 'intelectual finesse' of this kind of argumentation, definitely unworthy of an Oxford graduate such as yourself, Mr Jones (Owen). Firstly, according to Resolution 2625 of the UN General Assembly (Oct. 24th 1970) the right to self-determination only applies to "peoples subjected to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation" or, in other words, colonies, for instance the former British ones. Catalonia, I believe you might agree with me in this, is no colony (but for multinationals' as is the rest of the world is). Indeed, Canada and the UK authorised under their own particular (codified and un-codified) constitutions referenda on self-determination of Quebec and Scotland respectively. That was their free choice or the result of an internal political struggle. However, the Spanish constitution in art. 2 states that Spain is the indivisible homeland of the Spanish people (no eccentricity here, France, Italy, Germany and even the American pledge of alligience have similar wordings). Moreover, art 1.2 consacrates that "national sovereignty belongs to the Spanish people". Consequently, there is no legal way, unless the constitution is previously ammended, to hold a referendum on self-determination of Catalonia, or any other region for that matter, without being in severe breach of the constitution. Secondly, are you seriously comparing secesion to divorce? I know that Bexit is usually equated to a divorce (a very acrimonious one as everyone can see) but I am sure you can spot the metaphore in the word 'divorce' and therefore the stupidity of the logical train of thought you are implying. (Peoples are composed of individual persons. Divorce is 'equal' to secesion. Persons can divorce ergo peoples can secede.) I consider this absolutely ludicrous and a kind of Farage-like simplification of reality. I know you have been a great supporter of Scottish self-determination but not of Scottish Independence, that is truly respectable. However, on my part, I do not want for my country and my people-including those living in Catalonia-, the kind of political instability that Cameron's decision brought and is likely to bring (holding a referendum every few years -not generations- until the YES carries it) to the UK for the decades to come. Nonetheless, I should be grateful to Mr Cameron for signalling the path to "not-solve" a political problem such as these Furthermore, Catalonia is a rich region (2nd richest and 25% over the Spanish average GDPpc) which pretty much explains all this fuss. The Catalan government pushed for a "tax deal" in 2012 (when the Independence movement was pretty much marginal in Catalan society) that would have significantly cut redistribution of wealth to other regions. When this request was refused by the national government, they fired up the people into this mess under the premise of "Spain is robbing us" and promising not having to pay any more money to poorer reagions such as Andalusia or Extremadura. Please, allow me, it is equivalent to inner London pushing for secesion because their "high" taxes are financing public services in the Durham area or in Wales. I do not know you that intimately, Mr Jones (owen), but I have the feeling that you would not agree with those n***** f******* rich t***** getting away with it, would you, Mr Jones (Owen)? I must really apologise that this message got really long but it is merely proportional to my disappointment. However, please, make a signal if you would like me to contact you in order to further clarify anything that might remain obscure to you about my reasoning. Best Fernando

For many reasons I'll be voting for Corbyn, for me one of the most important reasons is climate change. When we inevitably go fully sustainable and use geothermal, biomass, wave energy, tidal energy, solar and wind, cheap stable power will be the norm by ... 1: Using many renewable sources as listed above as even on a windless night the others are unaffected. 2: Using suitable energy storage like pumped water, liquid air, batteries and biomass etc. 3: Trading energy over large distances, across continents then eventually the globe. This would even out supply and demand. This is one application that capitalistic free market economics would be most helpful by quickly managing demand and supply.

After free university can I get a free house and car too?

I'm a Brightonian and I'm so pleased that they're getting rid of that ugly conference centre and getting a nice new one.

What a bunch of loses .

Free Poppers all round !!

This is not the Labour I joined 5 years ago. Over run now with some extremely unsavoury characters, and that's just the shadow cabinet. My Progress 100 club membership will hopefully help restore the Labour that won elections and transformed the country, not lose and election (against the worst Tory campaign in living memory) and act like they've won.

I wonder why the war criminal Tony BLiar was no where to be seen at the conference? Lol

Owen, you are quite a divisive character so do you believe your support for Corbyn helps him or puts some people off?

Jeremy, I don't know how u do it. Walking on stage sharing it with these awful "hipster" type bands. This video makes me feel old so, how u universe passed that emotion. We're desparate for this change to happen. I can literally "feel" the squeeze and tightening negative energy in this country. These cruel, hard times are completely unnecessary. Austerity if a failure. It's always been a con.

Quite extraordinary really. I left school (83) when Thatcherism was at its height and for so many years after it seemed like a socialist government was a distant prospect, resulting in the rise of Blair and the advent of centrist politics. Seems like austerity has been a game changer and now that it has affected the middle classes this is the closet we have been in my lifetime. Jez needs to realize one fundamental fact though, being in the EU will never allow a left wing government to build a society built on socialist principles.

Cool

Corbyn policies will be almost impossible to implement if we're out of single market

1:14 yeah mate and strangely the Labour party is as divided on BREXIT as the tories are.

Sounds a bit all "Cult of Personality" to me...

Owen Jones is like the world war two Italy of political journalists. Always changing sides! I haven't forgotten the days when Owen was calling for Britain to leave the EU and calling on Corbyn to resign. Stick to your guns mate!

seriously Owen do you believe McDonnell's figures add up???? Joke shadow chancellor of all time.

That clip at the beginning shows just how power can abuse politics/ politicians. I know Jeremy hasnt caused this himself to any large degree however the holding up of politicians as rock stars and celebrities is always the forerunner to how power gets abused. I would be ewually as disturbed (and shocked) if that was done to Theresa May aswell.

His lack of opposition to Brexit will always make Corbyn 'the lesser of'. To those of us who wanted to stay in the EU he will always be a massive disappointment.

Not averse to hyperbole, is our Owen.

Is the labour party republican? or at least want to convoke a refferendum?

In fact I'll vote labour just to see if he can deliver so I can stop working and go on dole, looking forward to free stuff 👍😂

Corbyn gave a brilliant speech and looked every Inch a leader.

Let's bring the country forward, not back to the 1950's.

Great video, hope that Corbyn is elected soon.

Owen Jones , the man with the pint.

I do like Jeremy Corbyn and his policy ideas. But when it comes to culture and education, I take a more conservative approach: I hate the fact that at school we no longer learn about British history (the good and the bad) and our culture such as our songs, poetry and quirky traditions. It is my opinion that to form a cohesive society, we need to promote our identity so that everyone can attach themselves to it. This 'nothingness' is what I see the Labour Party promote; and too the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, and I certainly don't want to vote UKIP. So I feel a little lost in voting for the Labour Party, unfortunately.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy Michelle saw the light at the end of a very dirty and gloomy tunnel.

I hope Corbyn's Labour buck the global trend towards extreme politics, such as those of Trump and the Tories, by winning the next general election. We need a return to moderate, sensible politics.

UK business watches with interest....

A prime example of when the loons take over the asylum

Hope has no connection to reality, this video documents that.

All reminds me of Cleggmania. Remember how that turned out?

Go on Owen, campaign to bring those policies that worked so well in Venezuela to the UK! Luckily for you you're able to make a good living and become a minor celebrity misleading the UK's youth without dealing with the pain and misery your policy agenda would cause to the poor and needy. Have fun at the Labour conference with your middle class Labour admirers and try not to get too close to any of those unpleasant genuine working class people who may very rudely think you're full of it.

Still in the student union

How can you call this conference a success when brexit wasn't even discussed and anti-semitism once again went unaddressed

LOVING THE PLUM. fashion queen

LOFL the party has changed and transformed into a fringe party!

I really don't understand why so many neoliberals watch Owen Jones

Owen is clearly in denial.

Does the woman at the start have the means to pay for all her kids? Have to ask cos if she doesn't then she's failed socialism.

Bit of bed head mate @ 4.10. Least you could do is have a shower in the morning, you're on camera.

The Westminster bots are out in force again in this comment section. The establishment is actually scared: We are gonna win this thing, people!

If labour wants to win the next election they must push through votes for sixteen year olds now whilst the Tories are weak in parliament so by the next election they can win.