It goes without saying that Owen Jones should stand as Labour candidate for South Shields.
He already has 90,000 followers on Twitter - if only 1% of those turned up to canvass it would be a very formidable electoral machine.
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to...
And although he might be dismissed as a "digital Bennite" imagine the angst among the Labour high command if they chose a less inspirational candidate and subsequently lose the seat to UKIP.
And although Owen Jones has repeatedly said he is not interested in the trappings of Westminster, how can he justify himself to his inner socialist if he flunks this chance to give a voice to the voiceless, to the dispossessed, to the people dismissed as "chavs" and similar epithets (dismissed even by individuals in the ranks of the Labour party itself).
He already has 90,000 followers on Twitter - if only 1% of those turned up to canvass it would be a very formidable electoral machine.
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to...
And although he might be dismissed as a "digital Bennite" imagine the angst among the Labour high command if they chose a less inspirational candidate and subsequently lose the seat to UKIP.
And although Owen Jones has repeatedly said he is not interested in the trappings of Westminster, how can he justify himself to his inner socialist if he flunks this chance to give a voice to the voiceless, to the dispossessed, to the people dismissed as "chavs" and similar epithets (dismissed even by individuals in the ranks of the Labour party itself).
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