The feud between Andrew Neil and Owen Jones got personal

Feud of the week is between BBC presenter Andrew Neil and Owen Jones after the Guardian columnist wrote this.

If the BBC is politically neutral, how does it explain Andrew Neil?

Or why the idea the BBC has a "left-wing bias" are absolute nonsense.https://t.co/zFbpxRs2j2

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) April 11, 2018

Jones said the former Sunday Times editor was symbolic of the right wing domination of the media and suggested ‘a politics presenter as aligned to the left would not be tolerated’.

The BBC News press team weighed in on Neil’s behalf with this sort of thing.

Even Jeremy Vine got a little bit excited.

And Neil got involved as well, by posting this.

I understand Owen Jones has written yet another attack. He’s clearly campaigning to have me fired from the BBC. So be it. I don’t intend to respond. I’ll just have a chuckle watching this again: https://t.co/OsuRiyNKKQ

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) April 11, 2018

And to give Jones his credit, he did reference that unfortunate appearance six years ago in his original piece.

‘There is no question that Neil is exceptionally bright and well-read with an acute eye for detail: it is a grave error to turn up unprepared with him in the chair, as I discovered in one of my earliest TV appearances.’

Back to the Guardian man again.

When I debated trade unionism with Andrew Neil in 2014, the problem wasn't just his right-wing framing. He just did not understand trade unionism. At all.

(Full interview here >> https://t.co/XDZ51MZgSY) pic.twitter.com/LFS761CJGP

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) April 12, 2018

Anyway, I've said my piece on this: and again, the issue is not about Andrew Neil. It's about the BBC which we the licence payers fund, which has completely and utterly different standards for the left compared to the right. That has to change.

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 12, 2018

For some reason we think this might not be the end of it.