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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Indeed, but so what? Suez was not a conservative action, btw. @rumptyhurumph — PolitiTweet.org
kmac @rumptyhurumph
@ClarkeMicah I meant that history is dynamic and things change. In that time we lost an empire, lived under the thr… https://t.co/i0KKi3mm6f
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@opugh29 my view , nothing, hence my longstanding advice to the young to emigrate. — PolitiTweet.org
Owen 🇬🇧 @opugh29
@ClarkeMicah @markd17 What, practically, could be done today to counter this?
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Why? — PolitiTweet.org
DogLover69 @Dog__Lover__69
@ClarkeMicah Shut down Eton, and @LozzaFox's old haunt (he got expelled), and build more comprehensive schools. Red… https://t.co/XbFckCQmJN
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
No. — PolitiTweet.org
Hotels for the Homeless @DavidWi12056467
@ClarkeMicah Are there any true big beasts left in parliament right left or middling ? I don’t trust any of them There in lies the problem
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
RT @ladygreenkirtle: @ClarkeMicah @RowanPelling @Femail People underestimate how getting married is joining another family and almost joini… — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
You'll have to sign in (no charge) to read this long ago (2010) exchange between me and @edwardlucas on the (then barely begun) 'New Cold War'. . I think it is worth it. https://t.co/vTzPaESTwV — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
A Revolution Betrayed - How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System https://t.co/uCLr3UrcjJ — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@rowanpelling I guessed you must have been holding it back for a very good reason. In my opinion, for what it is worth, you definitely chose the right course. — PolitiTweet.org
Rowan Pelling @RowanPelling
@ClarkeMicah @Femail Thank you Peter. I've been sitting on this story for a long time – until my sons were old enou… https://t.co/MKJdmGZl5U
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Not identifiably, .@shaun_hutchings — PolitiTweet.org
Shaun Philip Hutchings @shaun_hutchings
@ClarkeMicah Is there a conservative movement?
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Would *what* lead to that .@dickietunnel? Switzerland's traditions are utterly different from ours. — PolitiTweet.org
Richard @dickietunnel
@ClarkeMicah @markd17 Would this lead to something like the Swiss model where they vote nationally and locally very… https://t.co/CecWoOUxvb
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@gablodian. The Labour Party has already had it. Its near-death in Scotland and Southern England mean it is very likely that it will need to rely on other parties for a majority in future. So it has nothing to lose from PR, and probably things to gain. — PolitiTweet.org
Julian Pardoe @gablodian
@ClarkeMicah Isn't the same true of the Labour Party?
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
It is @martinpeeluk, and the same passage may be found in the paperback version 'The Abolition of Liberty' — PolitiTweet.org
Martin Peel 🇬🇧 @MartinPeelUK
@lyeemoon @andygeorgeni @ShabnamChaudhri That looks like a page from ‘A brief history of crime’ which I reread recently.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Indeed it does .@adbenmorrisb — PolitiTweet.org
Flossy Morris @AdbenmorrisB
@ClarkeMicah @oggmus Doesn't Scotland have PR? Not sure I am a big fan of what is happening there at the moment, bu… https://t.co/zuKiEEK416
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@oggmus. Why would this avoid ‘stupid decisions’ ? What ‘lurches to the right’ do you refer to? — PolitiTweet.org
Michael @oggmus
@ClarkeMicah PR seems to be a sensible option, currently only around 40% of the vote is represented. These lurches… https://t.co/rbENyvRipd
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Thank you @carlafez — PolitiTweet.org
CarlAFez @CarlAFez
@ClarkeMicah I don't always agree with you but this is proper journalism and there is not enough of it.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
3/4 .@sketchblog — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
3/4 @skecthblog. In a PR system, there are potentially four liberal/socialist parties capabe of forming a coalition… https://t.co/BT4tOnw9EV
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@ryandal. I'm sorry, I don't follow your reasoning. I am familiar with these pious guidelines, and also with their actual operation in the hands of the 'Wikipedia Community'. Not sure how you can obtain the same experience. Wish you would read: https://t.co/dAqGFb9eWB — PolitiTweet.org
Ryan Dal C @ryandal
@ClarkeMicah Ha! You may have just proven your own point about amateurs correct! It’s irrelevant which in the conte… https://t.co/vuyaIWQ3Wy
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@erikhildinger. I favour the system (outlined by Nevil Shute in his novel 'In the Wet') under which individuals qualify for extra votes, up to a maximum of seven, as rewards for experience, real achievement, acts of courage and selflessness. But not wealth. — PolitiTweet.org
Erik Hildinger @ErikHildinger
@ClarkeMicah A good essay, nicely argued. Your point is really worth considering, though how democratic republics… https://t.co/YuBdAOrDWw
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
RT @ThreeJacques: @ClarkeMicah This is one of the key understandings that changed my view of the world. — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@ryandal Not 'Associated Press' a US-based newsagency, but 'Associated Newspapers', a British newspaper publishing company. You see how hard it is for amateurs to get these things straight. See https://t.co/eztC7M53BE — PolitiTweet.org
Ryan Dal C @ryandal
@polytixs @ClarkeMicah Well I’m pretty sure the current editorial guidelines would allow them as sources if properl… https://t.co/TCA2wqDUs3
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@adriansopinion. That may have been your *opinion* at the time. But in fact no work that I know of was done to see what the long-term effect of comprehnsive schooling would be. It was just assumed to be good, and imposed. — PolitiTweet.org
Adrian @adriansopinion
@ClarkeMicah @lewis_i3 Not sure Grammar schools went 'without anyone checking if they were better or worse'. To me… https://t.co/bOgcXliTII
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
I can't see why or how. Such systems make elections less decisive, not more so. — PolitiTweet.org
JR @JosephRosier500
@ClarkeMicah @admcollingwood Is it possible this could be solved by a compromise system such as additional member… https://t.co/wFxWim3oiV
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@corduene7 Because I am not sure who such groups speak for. I know from direct experience that opinion in Iran is not monolithic, that opposition to the regime takes many forms. And experience shows that sanctions invariably damage the poor, not the powerful. — PolitiTweet.org
Corduene @Corduene7
@ClarkeMicah How about listening to the protesters and opposition who both call for more interference and not less?… https://t.co/YUWLFPXcLq
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@ableajax. You should do. The US Bill of Rights is based upon the English 1689 Bill of Rghts, and on Magna Carta. — PolitiTweet.org
Ableajax @ableajax
@ClarkeMicah This is ten years ahead of me getting there. Maybe as an American I don't have the post-1689 system as a mental model.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
What is so Good About Democracy? Who Really Picks the Candidates We Obediently Vote For? Us? No, the Big, Rich Parties. https://t.co/XuaMxpeRmY — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@markd17 No, that is you. I regard universal suffrage democracy as a pretence, in which big, rich parties win elections and maintain popularity by espousing populist slogans, while hiding their elite aims. Please see https://t.co/hlQiRm7ili — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
@markd17 No, that is you. I regard universal suffrage democracy as a pretence, in which big, rich parties win elections and maintain popularity by espousing populist slogans, while hiding their elite aims. Please see https://t.co/hlQiRm7QaQ — PolitiTweet.org
Mark D ⚽🥊🏈🏴🚩🎼 @markd17
@ClarkeMicah Why are you so keen on minority rule?
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
No, @admcollingwood. You would get purist parties, and reliable salaries and subsidies for their leaderships, but none of them would ever be more than a faction inside a majority left-liberal coalition, awarded a couple of ministers as a sop. — PolitiTweet.org
Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood
@ClarkeMicah @SketchBlog Is there not, within the modern Tory voters, a difference between the Hitchens-Scruton typ… https://t.co/WFt4vJt3Xx
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@ryandal. There are wrong statements in it, but I'd ask you to examine its claims and see for yourself, rather than being led by me. More important is its general inadequacy (the Wikipedia near-refusal to use Associated Newspapers material as sources is a particular problem). — PolitiTweet.org
Ryan Dal C @ryandal
@ClarkeMicah If you can show me where it is wrong and sources etc happy to make changes. But not until after 5th
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
5/4 .@sketchblog. The PR arrangment mainly favours professional politicians, who are always in Parliament, always salaried and subsidised, even if not in office. But it creates unremovable permanent governments, and sidelines proper conservatism. — PolitiTweet.org
David Sketchley @SketchBlog
@ClarkeMicah So you admit First Past the Post or Winner Takes All us the only way the Tories win
