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

Punta del Este, Uruguay
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    1. Jo Maugham QC‏Verified account @JolyonMaugham Jan 4

      Bastani is a chancer. But if we allow him to poison the well, to create disagreement on the Left where there should be none, that's also on us.

      139 replies . 141 retweets 679 likes
    2. Aaron Bastani‏ @AaronBastani 17h17 hours ago
      Replying to @JolyonMaugham @WasiqUK

      You are a trustee for a conservative think tank who has unrelentingly attacked Labour, the left and Corbyn for two years. I had to double check this wasn’t a parody account.

      36 replies . 180 retweets 907 likes
    3. Jo Maugham QC‏Verified account @JolyonMaugham 6h6 hours ago
      Replying to @AaronBastani @WasiqUK

      I am not a trustee, I have not attacked the Left, and my opposition to Corbyn date to when he challenged for leader (almost four years ago). So, entirely characteristically, you are pretty much wrong on everything.

      10 replies . 8 retweets 43 likes
      Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
      Replying to @JolyonMaugham @AaronBastani @WasiqUK

      Jo - I have no issue with you opposing Corbyn back then. He was a leap in the dark. But haven't you at least been surprised by his effect on Labour: transforming its membership, resources, ability to mobilise - and most of all, its electoral power?

      10:48 pm - 4 Jan 2019
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        2. Jo Maugham QC‏Verified account @JolyonMaugham 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @AaronBastani @WasiqUK

          I think he's turned a Party that would have crushed this shambles of a Government into one that could well itself be crushed when the Remain votes that went to it in 2017 desert it. But I also think he is a populist with little to offer in policy terms. And a dangerous ideologue.

          18 replies . 9 retweets 44 likes
        3. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @JolyonMaugham @AaronBastani @WasiqUK

          When would that party have 'crushed' this government? You do realise that party was bankrupt and looked stuffed from all directions after the 2015 election? And that it then increased its share of the vote by more than at any time since 1945? Also - what is 'dangerous' about him?

          1 reply . 1 retweet 37 likes
        4. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          What is more dangerous than slaughtering Iraqis, which the kind of people you'd prefer led Labour did but Corbyn opposed? What is more dangerous than Windrush, which happened because all bar a handful of MPs (Corbyn among them) let the immigration bill through?

          2 replies . 4 retweets 27 likes
        5. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          And what is more dangerous than Yvette Cooper - many people's idea of who'd be leading a 'normal' (read: watered down) Labour helping mastermind the Work Capability Assessment and Atos? You'll surely know how many people have died as a result?

          1 reply . 3 retweets 20 likes
        6. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          Dangerous? It's our government that's dangerous: lethally so to countless numbers. Corbyn's not dangerous. He's right.

          1 reply . 1 retweet 22 likes
        7. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          As you're a seriously smart chap, you also know as well as I do that FPTP leaves Labour caught between a rock and a hard place on Brexit. You keep talking about the Remainers they'll lose (no sign of it yet) - but the working class Leavers who Corbyn won back? What about them?

          1 reply . 1 retweet 19 likes
        8. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          When someone who was right about most important issues of our age - Iraq and austerity - is never more at home than among normal, ordinary people, and spends his spare time tending to his allotment and making jam is described as 'dangerous', we are through the looking glass.

          3 replies . 5 retweets 28 likes
        9. Jo Maugham QC‏Verified account @JolyonMaugham 4h4 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @AaronBastani @WasiqUK

          You say that like they're positions not then held by millions or tens of millions. I wrote about how austerity was an ideological choice. I opposed the war on Iraq.

          3 replies . 0 retweets 2 likes
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        2. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          And you must - surely! - understand the factors which led to his election and his popularity on the left since? You must've reflected on it. You can't possibly be unaware.

          2 replies . 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Captain Haddock‏ @JXB101 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          You mean the textbook entryism of “registered supporters”?

          1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @JXB101 @JolyonMaugham and

          I mean the largest mass movement in Western Europe. Described by people who wouldn't recognise injustice if it slapped them around the face as a "cult".

          1 reply . 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Captain Haddock‏ @JXB101 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          Write back when you can get 700,000 on the streets of London.

          1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Rose #OIACGYUSTFU‏ @hazelhurst 2h2 hours ago
          Replying to @JXB101 @shaunjlawson and

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

          1 reply . 1 retweet 3 likes
        7. Captain Haddock‏ @JXB101 2h2 hours ago
          Replying to @hazelhurst @shaunjlawson and

          Why would Tory or Lab Remainers join the Lib Dem’s?

          1 reply . 0 retweets 1 like
        8. Rose #OIACGYUSTFU‏ @hazelhurst 2h2 hours ago
          Replying to @JXB101 @shaunjlawson and

          Due to their enormous commitment to a PV. Almost as though their allegiance is not particularly all that strong after all.

          0 replies . 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. CW‏ @highwireaction 3h3 hours ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and

          He is currently alienating the ground swell support he saw - my three millennial children became interested in politics and later saw labour as the natural home for remainders who wanted to stop brexit. Now they are calling JC Labour very disappointing and are disengaged again

          1 reply . 1 retweet 1 like
        3. Shaun Lawson‏ @shaunjlawson 3h3 hours ago
          Replying to @highwireaction @JolyonMaugham and

          I understand that. Genuinely. But life in opposition is often like that. I bet they change their minds when the next GE campaign happens.

          0 replies . 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. End of conversation
        1. Martin Francis‏ @phil_space 1h1 hour ago
          Replying to @shaunjlawson

          Transformed yes, but into what ?pic.twitter.com/sz6HhtPdWX

          0 replies . 0 retweets 0 likes
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