Shaun Lawson

@shaunjlawson

Liberal leftie; political and sporting (mostly football) chat.

Punta del Este, Uruguay
Joined November 2012

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 3

    Much shorter THREAD (I promise!): Freedom of movement. A few people have mentioned this - and they have a point. To my mind, the end of freedom of movement is far and away the worst thing about Brexit. It's not a 'WIN' - it's a massive loss.

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  2. Retweeted
    26 Dec 2018
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    I voted Remain but dismissing opponents as racists and morons is not the way. EU is neither Only Hope For Mankind or Evil Empire. I'd be ok with Remain/Reform if it was possible or Lexit. But I'm not ok with 2nd ref unless all other options exhausted.Please see pinned thread time

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  3. Retweeted
    23 Dec 2018

    Labour policy is GE first. Then last resort 2nd ref. If PV happens before GE I will abstain or vote leave. The Tories are taking a shit on parliamentary democracy.

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    23 Dec 2018
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    'People' across the EU are realising what's happening and are coming together themselves. Corbyn's no fool, a 'people' person who fights for the rights of 'people' be in the the UK, the EU or anywhere else. Worth watching if not seen, it won't be on MSM:

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    23 Dec 2018

    Brian Cox made me a Leaver J K Rowling, Alistair Campbell, Darren Jones made me a Leaver 😊

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  6. 35 minutes ago

    No, he absolutely has not - at this thread sets out in detail ------> By the way: do you think Tony Benn didn't represent Labour values? Do you think Dennis Skinner doesn't represent Labour values?

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    52 minutes ago

    Another exquisitely honest thread, concerning FoM & articulating the great hope so many of us hold: that a Labour govt will change UK society completely, for a kinder, humane system of collective existence. It can happen!

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    57 minutes ago
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    Write back when that 700,000 fork out £12 a year & join the Lib Dems

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  9. 42 minutes ago

    A grown man, who sounds like a 6 year old.

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    things like freedom of movement and employee protections. Although I appreciate FoM I don’t think losing it would stop people working overseas. As for employee protections the government allows so many loopholes such as zero hours. 3) My main concern is stopping austerity 2/

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    29 Dec 2018
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    Hi Michael, yes, you caught me, I am a bot! Just like everyone else you've accused recently. It's obviously beyond comprehension that a human being could possibly be in any way Eurosceptic. What a high-calibre, totally not clapped-out journalist you are.

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  12. Retweeted
    28 Dec 2018

    It also can't be held up as a bastion of freedom of movement, migrants' rights or internationalism when it fortifies its borders so heavily at the Mediterranean and elsewhere. It's free movement for white people only.

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  13. Retweeted
    28 Dec 2018

    These are people who, for the most part, never protested against austerity, yet have developed a religious dedication to the EU, led by (of all people) Alistair Campbell, Mandelson, Blair, A.C. Grayling and other irrelevant New Labour/LibDem has-beens with nothing better to do.

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  14. Retweeted
    28 Dec 2018

    and we're smart enough to know that the kind of politics that the EU practices - technocracy, free market fundamentalism and gutless centrism - is part of what created this shitshow in the first place.

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    28 Dec 2018

    Merthyr's people aren't stupid. We can see that most EU funding has been pissed away on cosmetic changes while industry continues to decline and our communities rot under austerity

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    1 hour ago
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    Before Corbyn became leader austerity was the orthodoxy and socialism was a heresy. Think back to that awful decision by Labour to abstain on the welfare bill. Elites didn't give a flying fuck until they realised that Corbyn was resonating with people's lived experiences.

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    2 hours ago

    Mr Duns writes spy fiction and goes after other writers like a spy. Mr Bastani does not represent the Shadow Front Bench or speak for them. This is more anti-Corbyn lies/smears and fakery. The desperation is now past comical.

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  18. 2 hours ago

    Oh, obviously. Apart from it being four million votes closer, half a million members closer, and about 15% in the opinion polls closer, having been written off as either dead or dying literally 2 years ago. And apart from it opposing a government collapsing around its ears too.

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  19. 2 hours ago

    And - arguably even more - in the media.

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