Tilting at Windmills: Jo Maugham and his libel of Jeremy Corbyn

That Jolyon Maugham doesn’t much care for Jeremy Corbyn is his business, but for someone who was part of the legal team that overruled Boris Johnson’s recent proroguing of Parliament, you would think that such a prominent figure would have a more rational reason for his animosity.
Yet, in spite of his demonstrably superior legal acumen, Maugham remains blinded by his hatred for Corbyn. With an election campaign under way, this hatred shows no sign of relenting.
Ironically, this manifested itself in a tweet in which he makes an initially uncontroversial statement that General Elections should not focus on one political policy area.
However, Maugham also picked up on the Jewish Chronicle’s latest attempt at emotional blackmail by stating that if Corbyn gets to Downing Street that its ‘fears and dismay count for nothing’. As ever the Jewish Chronicle works on the premise that it speaks for all Jews, as its front-page splash takes its cue from the Telegraph playbook.
Such has been the level of pandemonium that Maugham’s own prejudice when it comes to Corbyn come to the fore, to the extent that in order to double down on his statement he flat out accuses Corbyn of being an Anti-Semite. At the risk of being seen as tilting at windmills myself, I have included screenshots of these tweets in case Maugham decides to delete these later.
Firstly, Maugham goes on about the extent in which he has conflated antisemitism attributable to the Left to Corbyn on social media.

Maugham even ‘speculates’ (note the careful choice of word there) that Corbyn ‘thinks Jews are powerful and wealthy’.

It gets more bizarre.
An exchange with the eventual frothing bile of Gnasher Jew prompted Maugham to break his supposed rule about engaging with unknown accounts based on ‘the work you have done uncovering anti-semitism (sic) in the Labour Party’. Maugham is effectively championing the evidence-free witch-hunt that has become this fearless crusader’s stock in trade.

Of course, that does not placate old Gnasher, who advises Maugham on the correct spelling of antisemitism with their customary politeness whilst letting the cat out of the bag in stating that they ‘don’t advocate for any political party, just against one’. Maugham seems unconcerned with this inherent bias, or he may simply be blind to it as it mirrors his own so closely.
Then another one of those with awards in his profile (nominated, not won) wades in. Lee Kern accuses Maugham of not being in solidarity with the cries of the likes of the Chronicle or Gnasher. Maugham then proclaims that he has ‘campaigned against Corbyn, and against his anti-semitism (sic, again) for four years’.

Even this doesn’t placate Kern, who amongst his talents is sadly unable to tell the difference between an article and an editorial. Maugham eventually blocks Kern for being his usual rabid self, upsetting Kern’s fan base in the process (I’ve called them Kern Crawlers — you can have that one for free).
One could say that in the heat of dealing with the Gnashers and Kerns of this world (whose only trade lies in hate) prompted Maugham into expressing his own confirmation bias. However, that would not explain his interaction with the increasingly useless James Ball, who accuses Maugham of claiming to ‘ask Jewish people to ignore antisemitism, ever’. Then again, maybe it would.
That said, Maugham gave the defence that he ‘explicitly said that Corbyn was an anti-semite’ against Ball’s protestations.

It seems odd that both of these blue-ticks can disagree on something in which they share the same confirmation bias, but that’s how fucked up things are right now.
One theme that has emerged in recent years is the cult of personality with prominent political figures, treated as being of greater significance than their actions as far as the Balls and Maughams of this world are concerned. Corbyn has been a political outsider all of his life, and becoming Labour leader has not led to his acceptance amongst those who consider themselves that little bit superior to us plebs.
It is to Corbyn’s credit that he doesn’t much care about pissing off the almighty. And it speaks for these great influencers of our age that they are unwilling and unable to get their heads out of their arse and seek out the truth based on actual evidence rather than their fear of a Corbyn planet.
It’s almost worth Corbyn losing so he can sue the arse of these fuckers when he relinquishes the leadership.
