Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@markmarksson. You 'doubted the practicality' of mass sbstention in 2010? So did I, but so what? Why did you *not* doubt the practicality of endorsing Cameron's Blairisation of the Tory Party and placing the country under permannet eft-wing rule? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then .@markmarksson, what were you doing? Attending Kindergarten? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, .@markmarksson, there is no such implicit presumption. You invented that. You are leaving to avoid things getting worse for you. You are also(as is surely clear) no longer accepting responsibility for a decline you did not choose, did not set in train and cannot halt. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh and 4/3 .@markmarksson. I don't think you know what 'tactical' means. But continuing to urge others to fight when you know that your cause is lost is selfish and foolish. You, who were useless when it mattered in 2010, now brag as if you were useful now. Who says you are? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@markmarksson. My despair now is honourable, rational and realistic. I fought. I lost. The complacency of you, and of millions like you, in 2010 and afterwards, was inexcusable, stupid and irrational, and you're in no position to sermonise at me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@markmarksson. I suspect you were among those who were saying we 'had to get Gordon Brown out;' or some other empty slogan. It was a struggle *not* to despair against such brick-headed obtuseness. ... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@markmarksson, I do not know where you were in 2010, when, far from despair, I actvely used every ounce of influence I possessed to try to warn against the consequences of a Cameron government. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@markmarksson. It is not contradictory. To leave to avoid something is quite different from leaving to seek something. How anyone cannot see this is a mystery to me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@hectorthehog. Actually a minimal expenditure of energy could have uncovered these things for you (and why you expect a full detailed argument in a *tweet* I cannot imagine). The internet, which allows unlimited investigation,seems to make its users passive and flaccid. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@hectorthehog. I do not know what a word soup may be, but the tweet you disparage is made up of formed sentences containing clear statements. By ssearching the rchived, indexed peter Hitchens blog, anbd by reading my books, you may inform yourself in more depth. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@stugray1 . Eurocommunism has no objection to letting business rip. It has shaken off the mistakes of Lenin, and realised that businessmen can be the most reliable allies of cultural, moral and social revolution. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@arbuthnotting. Surely that fantasy of the British bulldog spirit died forever during the Covid panic. Millions obediently submitted to house arrest, muzzled their faces and ceaselessly anointed their hands with conformist sanitiser, the holy water of Covidism. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How do you know I'm not interested .@thelivingvote? Until this moment I had never heard of you or your book, or your proposals. I still don't know what they are. It is possible, dare I mention it, that we do not share the same objective. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@CelebDog1 It is the task of the educated and intelligent to *penetrate* disguises . We all fancy ourselves as informed sceptics, and used to idolise J.Paxman for his supposedly 'tough' interviews of politicians. But there has seldom been a more gullible generation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: I've always said the new global age was the hideous love child of Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher. It began with them… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jgillray When *will* people grasp that New Labour is a Eurocommunist movement of the radical left, disguised by the slogans of manipulative populism? Starmer is a Pabloite, a very severe 'Red-Green' hard leftist, committed to moral, social and cultural radicalism. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@latterm1th You have an archaic, obsolete view of the civil service. Its independence was undermined by Thatcher and destroyed by the Alastair Campbell government after 1997. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

As Mandy Rice-Davies once so memorably remarked: ‘He would say that, wouldn’t he?’ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

When did Sinn Fein fail , .@asr4645? Did you seriously imagine an *instant* handover? We are now passing through what ( in Vietnam) was called the ‘decent interval’ between capitulation and implementation. Surrender is usually disguised, as is victory. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@atheosmonde This gives you a good idea of my views on Mr Farage:,Nigel Farage's Talking Pints with Peter Hitchens https://t.co/Bt3ruNOKh6 via @YouTube — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of course it does, .@alex_d_awson, as no writer can see his own typos, but that is why you can read it for nothing, a gift from me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In what way? You have asked me to explain my opinion further, .@sketchblog, and I have done so. Now, rather than offer your own counter-argument, or accept what I say, you complain that I have confused my opinion with a fact. Please give evidence. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @havelocklm . There is nothing conservative about these economic and social liberals. If only the left would grasp this. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Certainly not him,.@thatgype . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No .Nor have I said so. The contrast between *our* current performance and our former capabilities is the thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Absurd, [email protected] wasted nearly 20 years of my life trying to persuade supposedly politically conscious people that the Tory Party will not help them. Total uninterest until now, far too late to act. When defeated, admit defeat. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@markmarksson . For perhaps the 500th time, I do not advise people to leave in pursuit of a better or similar life, but to escape the unique misery, chaos, lawlessness in freedom and economic decline which we seem determined to embrace here. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you .@kevinbe59227614 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@gablodian. I'm referring to the present day, and to practical realities.Foot had no chance of winning. Nor did Corbyn.Parties indulge themselves in bad years. Corbyn's election as leader was in fact the result of an ill-chosen leadership election system (likewise IDS and Truss) — PolitiTweet.org