Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think 'Sargon of Akkad' is a ridiculous handle, and feel free to mock it. It does actually amke me think of a tin of sardines. I was enjoying myself by laughing at it , not trying to please you. @Bert65281359 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Tripe marinated in bilge .@samsvideoset. Mr Benjamin is embarrassed by his crude, oafish outburst (though he knows some of his followers really really like it) and is trying to deflect readers here away from it by his daft, baseless accusation of snobbery. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @solr22: @ClarkeMicah You were a public figure all over traditional media for decades. Most people, especially interested in British pol… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why do you keep making this baseless claim, Mr Bennjamin? I've no idea what class you are and care less.I am not interested enough in you to look up your background. But I do know about this: https://t.co/DX8oDE9jPj — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@SensibleGeorge Britain became great generally thanks to men who believed in chivalry - showing strength and if ecessary defiance to the powerful and courtesy to the weak. Those who are strong in battle are, in my experience, courteous in life. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@samsvideoste. I am quite clear. Mr Benjamin knows he is on weak ground and is ashamed of his behaviour. So he tries to change the subject, and deflect my point, by pretending that he thinks I'm attacking him out of class snobbery. Dishonest and cheap. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It is not that 'people use' 'coarse language', it is that such langauge is now used without consequence in public debate , mass broadcasting and in general society, when 50 years ago it would have been met with horror. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You know nothing about me , Mr Benjamin. So how you can say 'Everything about you is posh', I do not know. Plenty of posh people are coarse. They are not opposites, or mutually exclusive, as you absurdly persist in trying to suggest. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Enthusiasats for him could try googling "Sargon of Akkad apologises to Jess Phillips" — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then look it up @steadyb106 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Jordan54941136 It has fallen, and will fall, further thn any other major modern civilisation. Too many believe Britain is in some way protected from catastrophe, that order and freedom will survive, that the currency will continue to hold value, etc, because it is Britain. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@smirkextremist. No need to wonder. But since you plainly aren't very good at searching, here I am decrying Enoch Powell:https://t.co/oyqGuPryvQ https://t.co/rbIBuIf6XV — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@MattChr83 For not above the millionth time. I am not suggesting that young people leave this country to seek a better, o… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@orangeagent. On the contrary, I think it very educational. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johhundeslit. Quite. 'Non tali auxilio. Nec defensoribus istis tempus eget', As Virgil so snobbishly put it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No , .@sandwichbad, we are not. I'm amazed that in a society in which millions have read or watched the Lord of the Rings, so few understand its simple, timeless point. The use of certain weapons and methods destroys the cause for which they are used. https://t.co/SVB3YoQ5Ka — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@MattChr83 For not above the millionth time. I am not suggesting that young people leave this country to seek a better, or equivalnet society. I am suggesting they should get out of a failing state before it is too late to do so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnhundeslit The 'Sardine' is a mockery of Mr Benjamin's grandiose chosen twitter handle 'Sargon of Akkad'.The coarseness refers to an episode in which Mr B used words I won't repeat here to a woman politician with whom he was having an argument. I'm sure you can find it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It's just a flesh wound, after all. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh, I thought your fantasy that you are the saviour of the country is pretty heavily implied in these words of yours for a few tweets back 'I love the idea that we'd rather watch England sink under the waves than use coarse language.' Happy to elaborate if you can't see it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why is it 'posh' to remember what adults have said, and use the information to make reasonable judgements about them? Bizarre. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@colinbottom. For years a giant cultural, moral, religious, social,economic & political battle raged all around you. The good side lost 12 years ago. Now you appear on the deserted field with your halberd and shout defiance at the victors.They're not there;they rule the country. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh. Sardine old chap, and what words have I put in your mouth? There is not much room there, given what it is already full of. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 My problem was and is that what I sought to save was a law-governed Christian civilisation, based on moral restraint. The crude weapons you are happy to use were and are not available to me. If you fight with such things, you may win a victory - but for what cause? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 I tried to lead, Sardine, old chap, for several years before 2010, when real change was (in my view) just still possible. The people whose support i sought did not simply not follow me.They met my warnings with blank incmprehnsion and often actual hostility. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@mattchr83 Timing was vital. 2010 was a unique moment of Tory weakness. The remaining forces of conservatism were not as crushed as they are now. My attempts were met with blank incomprehension sometimes mixed with actual fury. My conclusion is not pessimistic, but realistic — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@mattchr83. I do not know what you were doing at the time, but I made this case from my highly privileged position for several years before the election, with all the vigour I possessed. I sought help from apparent allies and it was invariably refused. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@mattchr83. It is my view that the last chance this country had to act against the cultural revolution was the 2010 election, when patriotic conservatives could and should have refused to endorse David Cameron's Blairite takeover of the Tory Party. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@david_rooke_. Did someone teach you to say that when in difficulties? I am most certainly attacking the 'message' which Mr Sardine sent by using personally insulting remarks to an opponent. It is rather hard to separate him from the words he used, as it happens. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doukhobour . I pay little attention to headlines. In this case I am referring to the words which Mr Sardine used and has not denied using. — PolitiTweet.org