The text is a reflection on the state of British politics, discussing the decline of Labour and Tory parties and the rise of independent parties. It mentions the Euro referendum, the Conservative Party's collapse, and the Labour Party's leadership crisis.
It is now almost 20 years since I first wrote this true thing.
‘Labour and the Tories are like a pair of corpses, stiff with rigor mortis, propping each other up. They no longer represent the true divisions in British society. ’ I said this a lot then, in the hope of wrecking David Cameron’s attempt to become a second Blair. Round about that time, and in the years afterwards, I made lots of new enemies.
I said a Tory defeat in 2010 would be better than a Tory victory. If the Tories went down for the fourth time, as they should have done, they would not recover. The patriotic people of Britain would have to make a new party which actually stood for them. But they didn’t.
Like people who keep going sentimentally to a restaurant that they once liked, even though it has become sad and bad, British patriots carried on voting Tory long after that party did them harm. So party came before country. Even intelligent people couldn’t grasp that the BBC’s keen support for Cameron was a sign that he was the enemy of proper conservatism. They trooped off to vote for him.
He duly lost but was rescued by the Liberal Democrats, who had no trouble forming a coalition with Cameron’s non-conservative party. So most people now think he won. And so they killed off the last hope of a serious new pro-British movement. And we had to endure the long, pathetic collapse of the Tory party, which had no real reason for existing.
David Cameron called the Referendum to save his party and Boris Johnson cynically backed the ‘Leave’ campaign because he hoped to advance his career, writes Peter Hitchens We've had to endure the long, pathetic collapse of the Tory party, which had no real reason for existing... ending with the spasm of the Liz Truss premiership The Labour Party picked a leader who, as far as I can discover, had not actually been a member of their party until a few months before he became an MP This total lack of purpose ended with the spasm of the Liz Truss premiership.
The arrival of this person in Downing Street was a sort of cartoon, showing what it means to ‘run on empty’ or to ‘run out of ideas’ or to be ‘politically bankrupt’. Gosh, Liz Truss. I met her a few times and still cannot quite believe that a once-serious political system could find no way of keeping her out.
Meanwhile the Labour Party were equally desperate, ending up by picking a leader who, as far as I can discover, had not actually been a member of their party until a few months before he became an MP. Amidst all this was the European Union referendum, a tragedy of errors in which nobody got what they wanted. David Cameron called it to save his party.
Michael Gove and Boris Johnson cynically backed the ‘Leave’ campaign because they hoped to advance their careers. We know for sure, from Sarah Vine’s recent memoir, that her then husband, now Lord Gove, was amazed when his side won. Read More PETER HITCHENS: Britain's become a nation of ugly, soulless town centres. This is who's to blame...
Millions of people believed that it was really a vote on mass immigration, which they were sick of. That is why ‘Leave’ won. And at the end of it, none of these goals were achieved. But the very large anti-immigration vote had broken the Labour Party, whose traditional supporters rightly feel betrayed by their north London liberal leadership.
Now the two rigid corpses, Labour and Tory, have finally fallen to the ground, two decades too late. But in those 20 years, so much of traditional, conservative Britain has been destroyed or crumbled away that nobody really knows what to do with the freedom they have. And who can blame them? England now has five joke parties, none of them any use to me – Labour, Lib Dems, Reform, Tories and Greens, in no particular order.
Not one of them has a coherent policy to deal with the really great problem which faces us – the need to live within our shrinking means while remaining civilised. All peddle various sorts of illusions. I don’t think this can last much longer, honestly, especially if the raging inflation, which I greatly fear, eventually arrives, probably thanks to Donald Trump. We had our chance, and we missed it.
I am very sorry. There is still a powerful and rich campaign to legalise marijuana. How can we shame it into going away? Last week, yet another crazy marijuana user was convicted of a hideous, pointless murder.
Samuel Field tortured 93-year-old Martin Glynn over 24 hours in Desborough, Northamptonshire. In the grip of crazed delusions, he punched Mr Glynn – who had been his friend – kicked him, stamped on him and strangled him. Mr Glynn never walked again, but took three months to die. A police statement issued after the trial makes no mention of the drug which almost certainly made this killer mad.
Gemma Arterton in Malta on ITV’s new series Secret Service Gemma’s spy drama makes a terrible errorI have seldom seen my birthplace, Malta, look so lovely as it does in ITV’s new series Secret Service, starring Gemma Arterton as a spy and mother of stroppy teens. Mind you, everything she does in Malta goes fatally wrong, as the experienced viewer can see that it will.
There is no time for a cool glass of something at a bar perched above the beauty of the Grand Harbour at Valletta. Because, yet again, it is all about those horrid Russians, who are trying to take over the British Government. You’d have thought that they had problems enough of their own, without having to fix the NHS and stop the boats. Look at a map, spy story writers.
Russia is about 2,000 miles away, and they’re not that into us. Still, I suppose spying on Belgium or Austria wouldn’t make such good TV. Royal gift that doesn’t ring true... How on earth do you find the ship’s bell of a Royal Navy submarine which was scrapped in Newport in 1971?
I have no idea. But the problem is that nobody else has, either. Royal sources, as I am supposed to call them, won’t discuss how the King obtained the brass bell from HMS Trump, so it could be given to the US President during the recent royal visit. Naval sources and museum sources are the same.
Nothing to do with us. I suppose we should just be glad that it is in such good condition and polishes up so nicely.
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