Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Souvenir edition of BBC Question Time from 2013 in which Liz Truss says she went to an 'ordinary comprehensive' (I scoff, audibly). I also point out that she used to be a liberal democrat and probablyt still is one. And I urge to the young to leave. https://t.co/uoRbdcVznn — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Check out "Peter Hitchens 'A Revolution Betrayed' with Nigel Warburton" Thrsday 9th February, Oxford. https://t.co/gnhnKJIAnF @Eventbrite — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I am actually rather surprised that this rather distressng and moving pieces of actuality has not attracted more attention. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@LaurelCanyon19 Read Mr Benjamin's original tweet which led to this exchange. You will find the dishonest distortion there. I decline to repeat it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No you're not. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tedxparot. More or less, but people must grasp that this is a not a *political* position. I was asked on live TV by David Dimbleby on 24/10/2013 in Liverpool https://t.co/uoRbdcVznn what my advice to the young was, given my position. I answered truthfully. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I wouldn't know .@britiancaptin . I can't think of anyone in modern Britain who has elaborated his position more thoroughly and carefully than I have. I have a shelf of books that I have written, and those who prefer the screen may try YouTube, or my twitter feed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@manicguitarist. Then you are unperceptive. The whole conversation is based on the claim by members of Mr Benjamin's youth movement that I have betrayed a great cause by shameful surrender. That is quite a rude thing to think or say about anyone. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dustinwood. I'm not asking for 'respect', just for these teenage heroes to stop sneering at me for understanding politics, when they don't. If you can't play chess, how are you going to recognise checkmate? But if you can, it's easy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@_rian_stone Well, I'm not proposing that they be locked up in Belmarsh. I'm only urging them and their leader to stop nagging me for recognising defeat when I see it. 'The louder the mouth, the braver the person', has never been the rule to follow during my lifetime. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danaarthur17. Well, I did not ask you to. In fact, I rather specifically suggested that you didn't, quite a long time ago. So that is your affair. The ears that were deaf before and during 2010 are even deafer now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@con_tomloinson You sound like a Trot with your 'the glimmers of populist hope we had were suffocated by the international hegemony reasserting itself'. For me, all I have is internal emigration. You already know what I think you can do. Why keep asking? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danaarthur17 So obviously the thing to do is not listen to me yourself. And , no, I won't offer you advice on where to emigrate. Getting out is going from, not going to, as a lot of people are going to learn. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You're so....macho! @Nagarjuniann Those without scruples had better be sure to win the battles they think they are going to enjoy. Because once general unscrupulousness starts, there is no limit to it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then stop irritating me , .@con_tomlinson. Can you imagine how infuriuating it is, after 20 years of active, cherent campaigning, to be confronted by some teenager criticising you for your passive silence? Probably not. That is your tragedy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, .@ianturner4, but so much damage has been done to our civil society in the last 12 years that they will be probably be replaced by some UKIP-type movement which no wise person would want to see in office. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Doctor_Class I don't see why. I *have* given up. I have said so several times. I can see no purpose in pretending not to have been defeated when I have been. It is not brave, or useful, or intelligent. It just gets your allies and supporters. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@con_tomlinson But I didn't 'advocate for alternative parties' I advocated the active destruction of the Tory Party,when it could have been achieved, and when there was still time. Had it collapsed in 2010, as I urged, a proper new party could have been created. Now it can't be. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/2 .@con_tomlinson. You have no plan, no means of achieving whatever it is your hero urges. You think that a big mouth makes up for tiny fists, and that not understanding what is going on makes you braver than those who do. Do all those things if you like; just leave me alone. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/2 @con_tomlinson. I suggested it daily, I corresponded with readers, I argued with them on the telephone, I broadcast it, I made speeches, I wrote a book. It would have worked. And in 2010, everybody I'd tried to persuade voted for *David Cameron*. *That* is when I gave up. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@con_tomlinson For all I know you weren't born then, But in that case, shoudln't you have the anners to *check* before informing me that I never suggested a solution. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@con_tomlinson. Sigh For seven long years after 2003, I set out (in a national newspaper), explained and urged a solution, namely that patriotic conservatives should desert the Tory Party,help to destroy it &replace it. Sorry you didn't notice. You and about ten million others. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danaarthur17. I cannot imagine what persuaded you that we have anything in common. I do not know whether you have totally misunderstood both of us, or just one of us. But surely I can choose my own allies. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You may think dishonest distortion of an opponent’s position is justified by your superior moral position. I don’t. It’s another good illustration of why we cannot possibly be allies. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Your formulation is plainly designed to portray a self-protective flight by the defeated and defenceless as a chosen retreat by a fighting army still in the field. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My advice, which I gave only when pressed by Dimbleby, is practical, not political. You never respond when I point to the years I spent giving political advice, which would have worked, and being ignored… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @RealEthanHarvey: @Sargon_of_Akkad @ClarkeMicah @jordanbpeterson He's not leaving it a failing state. He is merely pointing out that it… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Some people can be obtuse without trying to be, as your followers have shown very persuasively over the last couple of days. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Visiting the Herge Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium . NB Belgium is definitely not boring. https://t.co/tJKZ0ERqKj — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah, the Perishers, inch-thick ketchup sandwiches, Eyeballs in The Sky. How I miss them. They did have a similarity to Calvin and Hobbes, but Watterson is an actual genius, a great friend of thought and wisdom. — PolitiTweet.org