Recently giving my new Twitter account a run in I happened across prominent Leftist Owen Jones and couldn't resist tweaking his nose a little to see how he'd react, hoping for a lively debate. As far as gentile Leftists go, you'd have to try hard indeed to find a Lefty with a better pedigree than Jones:
He describes himself as a "4th generation socialist"; his grandfather was involved with the Communist Party and his parents met as members of the Trotskyist Militant tendency.[4]Here is our, very brief, discussion.