Today the BBC invited arch-enemies Dan Hodges and Owen Jones onto Daily Politics to discuss the Labour leadership battle. What began as a civil exchanging of views over Jeremy Corbyn’s inclusion on the ballot, rapidly turned into an all-out spat with Jones calling Hodges ‘the Katie Hopkins of the Blairite right’:
DH: You’ve insisted he’s on the ballot, he’s on the ballot. Do you now want him to win?
OJ: Yeah, I’ll be supporting and fighting for Jeremy Corbyn
DH: So you genuinely think if Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour party, the British people will elect Jeremy Corbyn?
OJ: I think the problem that Labour has at the moment is that there is a genuine crisis of social democracy across Europe where Labour are losing support to social democratic nationalist parties, to radical left parties and to populist parties. The question about what leader can possibly bring that support back… the problem with you, Dan, I mean increasingly you’ve become the Katie Hopkins of the Blairite right.
Hodges was quick to respond that he took the comparison as a compliment, with Jones going on to complain that Hodges has ‘never ever ever ever come up with a constructive proposal’.
In fairness to Hodges, Mr S is unconvinced that putting Corbyn on the ballot was the most ‘constructive’ idea Jones could have pushed for. Round one to Hodges?
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