Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why *do* people think that membership of the Conservative Party is evidence that the person involved has conservative opinions? The Tory Party is simply a mechanism for obtaining office. It has never had any principles. Nor is there any political activity among its members. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danelawdave. The Politburo chose. You pretend it ‘concluded it had no choice’ because your dogma demands this. The same dogma prevents you from reading or acknowledging the reams of clear western promises not to expand NATO. I hereby pronounce you a timewaster. Goodbye. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Goodnight grown-ups, anywhere. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @MrBiswaz: @ClarkeMicah ‘I would just have had a more grown-up conversation with the country.’ Rishi Sunak 2022 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Frankythcat62: @DrNeilStone Read Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah from March 2020. There was always an alternative and Sweden nearly got it… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @lucythinkssome: We all hate Peter Hitchens. How will we redeem him in society? I hated Peter Hitchens. Where is he? Was he real? Did he… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykiteppche, if you are confident of your predictions, why won’t you put your real name to them? You can vanish at any time, back into the soup of electrons from which you emerged. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykitepoche. You clearly didn’t read it either. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@banjobern Brain playing up? Imagination malfunctioning? Where did anyone say you were not *allowed* to do so? The question is why you’d want to. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Most kind @simonfish1529 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What hook @moss_isley ? All I care about now is that the farce is not repeated. A mass-repentance would make that more likely. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@markmarksson. That makes no sense. The point about the Cold War was that the USSR had vast conventional military superiority over the western nations, and that the nuclear deterrent neutralised this. Now this is not the case, it is an absurdity. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@mennojansz. The only surprise in that is that there *were* any dissenting voices to *be* excluded. Can they come out now and speak? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @snickypoo49, it is *not* normal for people to tweet to people they have never heard of. You didn't even know I existed before you tweeted to me. Nor I you. How would we have found each other in this vast ocean of electrons? Somebody brought us together. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@snickypoo49 . Yes, it was a joke. Because all the other identikit tweets from people I'd never heard of and who had never heard of me, had come in 48 hours before yours. 'Why was that?', I don't wonder at all. People can be so slow. @shaun_hutchings — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@William13253878 Did you honestly think the 'Cabinet' an absurdly grand description of this committee of ill-educated, forgettable, ignorant and inexperienced careerists, was ever anything else? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @danelawdave. This pathetic 'there was no treaty' mantra has replaced the original 'there was no promise' claim - as there's now proof that there *were* multiple, inescapable promises: https://t.co/FIfHCYt5KP . Nobody said there was a treaty. Are Western promises worthless? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @danelawdave In what way did it have no choice? Of course it had a choice. Gorbachev (or a replacement) could have done what Deng did, and the West would have swallowed it. It is just that your worldview collapses if you admit this, a common problem with dogmatists. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The interesting thing about this is not whether Sunak is telling the truth, but that he now thinks this *ought* to be the truth, and that he *should* have opposed the fear-driven panic of 2020. Others please copy. https://t.co/QkHucMiZ0T — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That is normal @podraighisme . Thank you anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I said 'would' , not 'did', @clemmowjoe. I think we have exhausted this. For some weird reason you don't want to believe that the American Empire is an empire. I cannot overcome this desire by fact or logic. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is so sweet. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@clemmowjoe. No doubt Stalin would have said the same. But you can't get out of it. Anyone from Dixie will be quick to point out that a Union you can't secede from is an empire. How ywould you define the territories seized from Mexico in 1848? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykitepoche — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykitepche You are beyond reason. Nobody said it was a treaty, just that it was a promise, repeatedly and clearly made. At first the Russophobes all claimed that this was a fabrication. Now that GWU has produced the written records, the Russophobes say it's not a treaty. Pah. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @danelawdave . It would be naive in the extreme to imagine that Western protests would have made any difference. China didn't care what the West said about Tiananmen. And the Kremlin had been repeatedly permitted to crush revolts by NATO, in Berlin, Prague, Budapest etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 On the contrary, @danelawdave, the Soviet Politburo could have behaved like its Chinese counterparts, and massacred the protestors in Prague, Dresden, Leipzig etc. The fall of the berlin wall was an *effect* of Gorbachevian liberalisationk, not a cause of it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@oilpaul @taylorcolumnist Who are you accusing of hindsight, and why? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @clemmowjoe, common language is generally imposed. French and Spanish (and the Native American languages) had to be suppressed or dethroned in thise ares where they were spoken. How stable would the USA be if it ceased to be rich? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @clemmowjoe. The British Empire used to like to claim much the same. But it was still an empire. Surely an empire is defined by the way in which territory was obtained, and the centralisation in the Imperial metropolis (in this case Washington DC) of significant powers. — PolitiTweet.org