Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @siobhansarelle Do the police employ *anybody* to detect crimes these days? It’s an activity they have largely given up.Al… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @benhabib6 . Experience of defence projects shows this will in fact be a considerable underestimate. Trident renewal: woul… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @benhabib6 Recent (under) estimate fur Trident renewal was. £205,000,000,000. I suppose you have that in your Post Office… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 1/3 .@siobhansarelle The taxpayer does not pay my wages, and I have not sworn an oath to uphold and enforce the law. I hav… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 2/3 .@siobhansarelle I said only ‘ Oyr taxes at work’ . From this you have somehow concluded (because you know it is so) t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 3/3 .@siobhansarelle In fact it is the police who incessantly blame their failure to patrol the streets on foot,or to inve… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Well, yes @benhabib6, The government’s estimates of its own spending are notoriously reliable. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I’d add .@starbuck24601 That the police of this country perform a completely different task from that of armed continental state gendarmeries, who are an arm of the state rather than citizens in uniform. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Manpower shortage does not explain police failures.The facts: https://t.co/2byCZs4phM — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@starbuck24601 Manpower shortage does *not* explain police failures : https://t.co/2byCZs4phM — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@starbuck24601 But thousands more, and many more per capita, than we had in the 1960s, the last era during which the police of Britain did the job we pay them for. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@siobhansarelle In fact it is the police who incessantly blame their failure to patrol the streets on foot,or to investigate and solve crime, on an alleged lack of manpower and time. I have never accepted this. They just don’t want to do these things, and prefer dancing etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@siobhansarelle I said only ‘ Oyr taxes at work’ . From this you have somehow concluded (because you know it is so) that the police were wasting their time, and our money. But that was you, not me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 .@siobhansarelle The taxpayer does not pay my wages, and I have not sworn an oath to uphold and enforce the law. I have no power of arrest. I do not regard debate on public policy as waste of time. It is my job. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, yes @benhabib6, The government’s estimates of its own spending are notoriously reliable. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@benhabib6 Recent (under) estimate fur Trident renewal was. £205,000,000,000. I suppose you have that in your Post Office Savings Bank account, but to me it’s colossal even before the inevitable vast overspend. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@benhabib6 . Experience of defence projects shows this will in fact be a considerable underestimate. Trident renewal: would £205bn be a price worth paying? https://t.co/gx9iL0ZM2d — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@siobhansarelle Do the police employ *anybody* to detect crimes these days? It’s an activity they have largely given up.Along with all the other things people think they still do, until they actually encounter the modern police. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Can’t see why .@admcollingwood. Israel, which is under much more of a threat than we are, manages with a far more modest nuclear force. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @michaelrosenyes , what do you think of this? Back to the 1945 Secondary Mod concept. ‘Tony Blair’s think tank calls for G… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Good heavens! Who'd have thought it @speakoutsister? But you should realise that in this conversation it is *me*, not you, who is supposed to have no sense of humour. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What is important @elrington1952? Do you have an Importantometer? May I borrow it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@thestopthecoup. No doubt. I am after all 'The Hated Peter Hitchens' see: https://t.co/G372qnu3Su but the important question is, not "Is Peter Hitchens horrible?' but 'Is Peter Hitchens right?' . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The cost of *renewing* Trident is colossal, .@benhabib6, as you perfectly well know. And soon after it is renewed, it will once again be obsolete and require re-renewing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

https://t.co/uibyeIrK12 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@michaelrosenyes , what do you think of this? Back to the 1945 Secondary Mod concept. ‘Tony Blair’s think tank calls for GCSEs to be axed’ https://t.co/YREFsBdGx6 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jsinkovits — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No @jsinkivits @deiniolenman . of course I don’t, — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If so, which I dispute, I’d choose nothing. But nuclear weapons are unusable anyway. Perhaps we should quietly scrap them and *pretend* we still have them . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why do you bet that @scifiction1969? — PolitiTweet.org