Toby Young trolled Owen Jones on A-Level results day and Jones’ response was A*
Here’s Toby Young, using A-Level results day to troll Guardian columnist Owen Jones.
Good luck to @OwenJones84, getting his A-level results today.
— Toby Young (@toadmeister) August 16, 2018
As gags go, people reckoned it was distinctly underwhelming.
A thoroughly unpleasant tweet, without humour, class or glass-house-awareness.
— Sam Hudson (@mrsamhudson) August 16, 2018
That’s Toby…….
— scook2003 #FBPE (@scook2003) August 16, 2018
I agree myself and @OwenJones84 don’t agree on much but this is unprofessional
— Matthew Poole JC4P45 (@mattpoole2011) August 16, 2018
Still it was all worth it because it allowed Jones to do this. How Young didn’t see it coming, well, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised.
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1030017631569563648
Boom!
How thick is Young? he just never learns, no wonder Daddy had to fix it for him just like all the other privileged Daddy’s boys like Johnson Cameron & Osborne
— mary whitby Cranky feral shock trooper 🌹 (@19MW98) August 16, 2018
Love that he opened himself up for this obvious and funny retort. Real high level operator.
— Bruce Warcraft (@MikeMcDonald83) August 16, 2018
@toadmeister ooh you just got burned pic.twitter.com/4M7HqMFl9n
— Withincha (@danwithe) August 16, 2018
And just in case you don’t know what he’s talking about, this tweet from Labour MP David Lammy a while back should fill you in a bit.
Toby tell us again about that time you got into Oxford because your Dad (a Baron) rang up the College to ask them to let you in because you didn't get the grades? And then come back to talk to me about institutional bias and why white students twice as likely to get in as black. https://t.co/1iVhwjBad3
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) May 23, 2018
And a bit more detail from the man himself.
Finally, for those tempted to reply to this thread by pointing out the circumstances in which I got into Oxford (I was sent an acceptance letter by mistake, my dad knew the admissions tutor at college I applied to, etc), please click on this link first https://t.co/E2AEwAk1jA
— Toby Young (@toadmeister) May 23, 2018
My college created an additional place on the PPE course for my year group when it discovered it had sent me an acceptance letter by mistake. So I didn’t deprive anyone else of a place.
— Toby Young (@toadmeister) May 23, 2018
Well, that’s alright then.
