In a tweet on December 5, the Guardian columnist Owen Jones referred to Leo Varadkar as “an obnoxious right-wing politician who should be vilified for his catastrophic policies”. As several Irish tweeters among his 1m followers quickly pointed out, this comment illustrated just how out of touch Jones is.  Maybe he was only paying attention during the Fine Gael leadership election in 2017 when Varadkar famously declared he wanted to champion “people who get up early in the morning”. Or maybe Jones tuned out after the Fianna Fáil Ard fheis later that year, the one where Micheál Martin told party…

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