Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @janinethechef1 . But the point at which the Tory Party culd no longer be said to be against the string state was 1916,when they entered the war coalition and supported a mass of new state pwoers, most especially militray conscription.... — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah True that parties are rather broad churches which can incorporate a range of opinions; however, those… https://t.co/y8YCzicoNP

Posted Aug. 26, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@janinethechef1 .Not really. That distinction vanished in the 1950s when the Tory Party broadly accepted the actions of the 1945 Labour Government. Harold Macmillan, by then PM,had already embraced a great deal of state intervention before WW2, in his book 'The Middle Way'. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah True that parties are rather broad churches which can incorporate a range of opinions; however, those… https://t.co/y8YCzicoNP

Posted Aug. 26, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 @janinethechef1 , Paul Cambon, the French ambassador throughout that period, said that Britain after 1918, compared with Britain before 1918, had undergone a revolution as radical as that France experienced after 1789. And the Tories did it. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah True that parties are rather broad churches which can incorporate a range of opinions; however, those… https://t.co/y8YCzicoNP

Posted Aug. 26, 2022