Peter Hitchens is one of the few people left whose opinions I value. I deplore the deterioration in values and morals now practised, evident and tolerated in our 'brave new world'. A corrupt government does not give out freedoms to its people but takes them for itself.
He speaks very honestly, but he is incredibly negative 😄 Whilst I agree with many a critique he makes, I would like to hear some positive suggestions as to what he might recommend in place of what he criticises
@@n0w3lly90 Hitchens is a journalist. It's not his job to provide answers, but to gather information and present it to the public. What his readers etc do with the information is for them to decide 😉
We need to drain our swamp, There are very few in Westminster worthy to be there. We voted Tory and got the sleazeball Greens. Reform is needed and Mr Tice will get my vote at the next election.
Reform party and Richard Tice for me. Unfortunately that would require a large proportion of the electorate to actually think. Something which is alien to them.
Corruption, open borders, green agenda, social engineering. I would have voted Labour for any of that. Even the Brexit deal is half baked. Reform UK will get my vote next time.
Yep... I agree. I voted Conservative for the first time in 2019 on the understanding that - in spite of what parliament had evidently tried to fudge during May's minority govt period on Brexit - that they were the only party of the two main parties committed to executing Brexit, which I saw as a repatriation of what Major, Blair and Brown did without ever asking any consent (namely selling out our legislative primacy in full to Brussels, via Maastricht, Nice and Lisbon treaties - the latter of which was just a re-clothed European Constitution with those scary words removed and a few internal edits!). But Boris definitely worries me with what has happened with the pandemic response and his green agenda that makes him sound as bad as people like Caroline Lucas! However, and here's the rub: where is a viable opposition choice? I don't trust Labour, mired as they are in identity politics, CRT, unconscious bias and the humourless and freedom opposing antithesis we know as "woke". I am more and more looking at Reclaim or Reform, frankly. Nothing other than a seismic change to the two-party monopoly can I see right now
My friend was the local (conservative) councillor, at the last local elections they forced him to run when he didn’t want to, so he sabotaged his own campaign and essentially said to people vote for the greens, because if you vote conservative you’ll just get the greens with the conservative sleeze, it worked and he lost, the greens got in and I’ve never seen him happier, he saw where the conservatives were heading and wanted nothing to do with it despite being the local councillor for the area for 20 years.
Am I the only one amazed that there is even a debate over this, i dont want my elected representative working in anyone other than my interests, these people get a salary which basically goes straight into their bank account, every cost they incur from the second they walk out of their front door is covered by expenses, travel, food, energy, housing, everything is subsidised and free, being given enough money to afford a London mortgage on expenses is bonus enough, they shouldnt have any other job, if they have their own business, fair enough, delegate and oversee whilst you are an MP, but second job, no.
What about Rosena Allin-Khan, Labour MP for Tooting who does occasional shifts as an A+E doctor at St.Georges Hospital, Tooting? She's going to be banned from continuing?
I can't believe our conservative MP is even allowed in public office and sits in a safe seat. In 2014 he resigned as a ministers aid after being accused of paying a Brazilian male escort money for drugs and sex and a few years later was questioned by police for fighting with a friend and feeding a dog so much alcohol that it needed veterinary treatment. The whole system stinks.
Yeah that's a fair point I assume the propaganda finally got to him and he went for the I'm old reason, I guess in the absence of any real opposition by anyone remotely political Mr Hitchens seemed to be louder than he actually was .
I don't know how Starmer has the right to criticise the Tories. At least they didn't back Colin Pitchforks release!!! Honestly, he goes on about a bit of sleaze but he backs a man that murdered 2 teenagers!!!
Dude was in charge of CPS when they failed to prosecute Savile, _and_ he was Director of Public Prosecutions when it was decided there was insufficient evidence to charge him . . . Enough said.
I very much hope ReformUK drives a very big wedge into the rotten stump of our political system and provides a conduit for the silent majority to rejoice in prudent Government spending, reduced forced taxation and controls, and common-sense policies through all public services prevailing.
Always a pleasure to see these to giants of new reviews , I’m totally fed up with the so-called climate debate because it’s not a debate. It’s you must do this you must do that . You will obey our decisions , well I’m sorry but I don’t won’t to freeze this winter because they have shut down all the power stations . Although it might drag some of the climate fanatics in to a sense of reality
The time is ripe to be a Jacobite, there is a man in Liechtenstein seems to be in waiting. Abolish the Act of Settlement 1701 and the law Protestant Progenitor. Bring forth the "Line of Stuart".
Whether or not you agree with Peter Hitchens he backs up his thought-out arguments with information that you can look at and use to form a counter argument. This seems rare these days. He's not just name-calling and trying to get people cancelled if they disagree.
Surely it must be the Reform Party and it’s debonair leader Richard Tice. He strikes me as a magnificently trustworthy man and since he has made millions and millions in real estate asset management it is inconceivable to me that he would ever be motivated by anything dodgy to add to his vast wealth. The only thing that slightly puts me off voting his way is the fawning sycophancy he is shown by expert in everything Mike Graham, plus Julia Hartley Brewer and Jeremy Kyle.
@@matthenley3886 You don't lead an outsider party to become a lobbyist or on the payroll of corporations. If he was in it for personal benefit, he would just join the Tories.
@@ChimpRiot An outsider party heavily funded by wealthy donors ( many of which were previously conservative donors). Why does he Richard seem trustworthy?
@@matthenley3886 And what will it achieve for the wealthy donors? Those wealthy donors could get legislation or influence by giving that money to the Tories or Labour.
Peter doesn’t like the Royal family but still wants a Royal family...you cant have it both ways Peter. Let them go....and they should leave a large proportion of their estate to the British people.
The PM is usually the cleanist in parliament because he/she has to be. This is why Dopey Doris will be gone soon after his big showcase event (cop26) is over. There's a £30 - 50 m US speaking tour waiting and hordes of finance companies waiting to shower money at him. An enticing prospect for a man earning a measly £140k p.a. with at least 6 kids to support and at least 3 former partners.
None of them, at this stage it's very clear that all of them are bought and paid for criminal foreign assets and domestic terrorists, all slumped like fat pigs in that cesspit of parliament..
I am not approving of describing law positivly in 19th century UK The conditons for the working classes were dire indeed Poverty deprivation and attacks by troops. Following some improvement such things returned in 1918,
Peter Hitchens as usual is on target, I particularly agree with his views concerning the Royal family stupid partisanship activities at the ridiculous COP26 conference. Sadly Charlie has stabbed yet another nail into the coffin of house of Windsor. I like Peter support the concept of a monarchy, just not this group of cretins.
Is it true or is it not that Boris Johnstone and all his cabinet are all millionaires, so saying the rewards come after they leave politics is not really true, is that right or is it not lol
@@sylviaduffin4812 Are you implying Blair didn’t know or care New Labour didn’t care about us plebs appearances and reality are not the same Ps Remember Mrs Dufey
Yeah politics is full of sleaze it's just that there's far more of it in the conservative party as the evidence shows...move along now.. nothing to see here
Peter Hitchens is one of the few people left whose opinions I value. I deplore the deterioration in values and morals now
practised, evident and tolerated in our 'brave new world'. A corrupt government does not give out freedoms to its people
but takes them for itself.
He speaks very honestly, but he is incredibly negative 😄 Whilst I agree with many a critique he makes, I would like to hear some positive suggestions as to what he might recommend in place of what he criticises
@@n0w3lly90 Get rid of the things he criticises and there ain't a problem! It is not about 'replacement'...
I agree. His perspective is always interesting and considered.
@@n0w3lly90 He’s not Negative
He lives in the real world not the fake one of spin
@@n0w3lly90 Hitchens is a journalist. It's not his job to provide answers, but to gather information and present it to the public. What his readers etc do with the information is for them to decide 😉
We need to drain our swamp, There are very few in Westminster worthy to be there. We voted Tory and got the sleazeball Greens. Reform is needed and Mr Tice will get my vote at the next election.
Well said, I agree with that!
Drain our swamp.
Patriotic Brits using American terms rather than our own.
You voted Tories and got Tories. Why are you surprised they let you down?
@@AggroChip Voted Tory and got Kim Johnson Un's communist green party. Still better than the mess we would be in if Labour had got in.
Love Peter Hitchens and always enjoy his chats with MG!!!
I'll second that Paula.
Reform party and Richard Tice for me. Unfortunately that would require a large proportion of the electorate to actually think. Something which is alien to them.
Sleaze is only downplaying what is corruption it should simply he called what it really is.
Corruption, open borders, green agenda, social engineering. I would have voted Labour for any of that. Even the Brexit deal is half baked. Reform UK will get my vote next time.
1 minute late for your dole appointment and they stop the benefit for 3 months, meanwhile the MPs can do wharever they want without scrutiny.
The swamp is alive and full up again! What a disappointment, the least honourable are still there, standing room only!
There should be more noise about Claudia Webbe ... (the acid attack MP) who should resign ...😡
She has an appeal. If that fails, her constituents can vote her out if they want to do so.
Yep... I agree. I voted Conservative for the first time in 2019 on the understanding that - in spite of what parliament had evidently tried to fudge during May's minority govt period on Brexit - that they were the only party of the two main parties committed to executing Brexit, which I saw as a repatriation of what Major, Blair and Brown did without ever asking any consent (namely selling out our legislative primacy in full to Brussels, via Maastricht, Nice and Lisbon treaties - the latter of which was just a re-clothed European Constitution with those scary words removed and a few internal edits!). But Boris definitely worries me with what has happened with the pandemic response and his green agenda that makes him sound as bad as people like Caroline Lucas! However, and here's the rub: where is a viable opposition choice? I don't trust Labour, mired as they are in identity politics, CRT, unconscious bias and the humourless and freedom opposing antithesis we know as "woke". I am more and more looking at Reclaim or Reform, frankly. Nothing other than a seismic change to the two-party monopoly can I see right now
My friend was the local (conservative) councillor, at the last local elections they forced him to run when he didn’t want to, so he sabotaged his own campaign and essentially said to people vote for the greens, because if you vote conservative you’ll just get the greens with the conservative sleeze, it worked and he lost, the greens got in and I’ve never seen him happier, he saw where the conservatives were heading and wanted nothing to do with it despite being the local councillor for the area for 20 years.
What about the SDP? Rod Liddle seems to like them.
People who voted brexit are thick
@@testpilotian3188 that's an interesting story actually Ian. Thanks for that
@@alison5966 I am watching them closely too, yes...
Thank you both, another enjoyable 20mins Highlight in my week👍
Am I the only one amazed that there is even a debate over this, i dont want my elected representative working in anyone other than my interests, these people get a salary which basically goes straight into their bank account, every cost they incur from the second they walk out of their front door is covered by expenses, travel, food, energy, housing, everything is subsidised and free, being given enough money to afford a London mortgage on expenses is bonus enough, they shouldnt have any other job, if they have their own business, fair enough, delegate and oversee whilst you are an MP, but second job, no.
What about Rosena Allin-Khan, Labour MP for Tooting who does occasional shifts as an A+E doctor at St.Georges Hospital, Tooting? She's going to be banned from continuing?
why do we always end up with the worst humanity has to offer as our leaders.
it seems to be a feature of democracy
@@Snykiboi and lies
I can't believe our conservative MP is even allowed in public office and sits in a safe seat. In 2014 he resigned as a ministers aid after being accused of paying a Brazilian male escort money for drugs and sex and a few years later was questioned by police for fighting with a friend and feeding a dog so much alcohol that it needed veterinary treatment. The whole system stinks.
No science is never settle, nor is science ever immune from questions and scrutiny ...
Not according to #44 in USA...
Mr Hitchens is a prime example of pure talent in the UK that could improve politics on day one if only we could get them elected.
Lol he melted and rolled over at the start of the pandemic. Lost all respect for him. Gutless man
@@benjimenlockwood no he didn't he maintained his position as anti lockdown and masks dont work the gov locked down anyway .
@@simonshort8581 no he caved in and got jabbed when he said he didn’t want it.
Yeah that's a fair point
I assume the propaganda finally got to him and he went for the I'm old reason,
I guess in the absence of any real opposition by anyone remotely political Mr Hitchens seemed to be louder than he actually was .
Holster your gun and hope your opponent does too. But what happens when they don't?
I am in Scotland and I am bloody freezing, I blame all this global warming for my nuts turning blue
I don't know how Starmer has the right to criticise the Tories. At least they didn't back Colin Pitchforks release!!! Honestly, he goes on about a bit of sleaze but he backs a man that murdered 2 teenagers!!!
Dude was in charge of CPS when they failed to prosecute Savile, _and_ he was Director of Public Prosecutions when it was decided there was insufficient evidence to charge him . . .
Enough said.
There was insufficient evidence to charge Savile because victims refused to give evidence.
Whataboutery at its finest. Well done.
I recommend a book by David Craig "There is no climate change". It's the book Extinction Rebellion don't want anyone to read.
And this lot are going to laid off 60,000 care workers on thursday sleep well boris
I very much hope ReformUK drives a very big wedge into the rotten stump of our political system and provides a conduit for the silent majority to rejoice in prudent Government spending, reduced forced taxation and controls, and common-sense policies through all public services prevailing.
Visit your local member. Their office is right there on Main Street. (Bet you have to wait for cops to turn up first?).
However bad Boris is labour certainly isn’t the answer
Not yet!
@@dennisgraham9663 not ever
If Boris is the answer, you're asking the wrong questions.
All this talk about second jobs. It seems to me like some of these crooks are treating being an MP as their 2nd job.
Always a pleasure to see these to giants of new reviews , I’m totally fed up with the so-called climate debate because it’s not a debate. It’s you must do this you must do that . You will obey our decisions , well I’m sorry but I don’t won’t to freeze this winter because they have shut down all the power stations . Although it might drag some of the climate fanatics in to a sense of reality
Is it sleaze, corruption or criminal ?
The time is ripe to be a Jacobite, there is a man in Liechtenstein seems to be in waiting. Abolish the Act of Settlement 1701 and the law Protestant Progenitor. Bring forth the "Line of Stuart".
Peter ,, its called controlling the vast unwashed !!
When escaping to a bastion of sanity becomes a necessity to survive.
Never stop the reasoned debate, with a large sprinkling of jovial wit.
Thanks.
it's Ian Hislop's fault that Boris is Prime Minister???? really????
Where's my icepick....
Whether or not you agree with Peter Hitchens he backs up his thought-out arguments with information that you can look at and use to form a counter argument. This seems rare these days. He's not just name-calling and trying to get people cancelled if they disagree.
Because cancel culture doesn't have well thought out arguments which can be backed up evidence to prove the argument, which cannot be debunked.
I don't agree with him but yes, he at least thinks a bit. More than can be said for Graham.
@@jasonuren3479 Eh? In English please?
Mr Johnson is a Trojan horse with a jesters hat.
Surely it must be the Reform Party and it’s debonair leader Richard Tice. He strikes me as a magnificently trustworthy man and since he has made millions and millions in real estate asset management it is inconceivable to me that he would ever be motivated by anything dodgy to add to his vast wealth. The only thing that slightly puts me off voting his way is the fawning sycophancy he is shown by expert in everything Mike Graham, plus Julia Hartley Brewer and Jeremy Kyle.
Why does he strike you as a magnificently trustworthy man?
@@matthenley3886 You don't lead an outsider party to become a lobbyist or on the payroll of corporations. If he was in it for personal benefit, he would just join the Tories.
@@ChimpRiot An outsider party heavily funded by wealthy donors ( many of which were previously conservative donors). Why does he Richard seem trustworthy?
@@matthenley3886 And what will it achieve for the wealthy donors? Those wealthy donors could get legislation or influence by giving that money to the Tories or Labour.
@@ChimpRiot They will still achieve influence.
Peter doesn’t like the Royal family but still wants a Royal family...you cant have it both ways Peter. Let them go....and they should leave a large proportion of their estate to the British people.
Murdoch media covers it up if it's his favourites.
The PM is usually the cleanist in parliament because he/she has to be. This is why Dopey
Doris will be gone soon after his big showcase event (cop26) is over. There's a £30 - 50 m
US speaking tour waiting and hordes of finance companies waiting to shower money at
him. An enticing prospect for a man earning a measly £140k p.a. with at least 6 kids
to support and at least 3 former partners.
Hitchens' 1/3 of an hour
Is it true that winters are warmer? Or is heating and clothing better?
And stats?
One man's sleaze is another man's WD40.
Which politician or political party do you trust?
None of them, at this stage it's very clear that all of them are bought and paid for criminal foreign assets and domestic terrorists, all slumped like fat pigs in that cesspit of parliament..
None they all in it for there self with all there perks and corrupt deals
None of the mainstream parties have any credibility.
The only reason Johnson's government is still in power is because there is no viable opposition.
MAGA
Power corrupts its as simple as that.
My view (though not an original one) is that power _reveals_ (though these aren't necessarily mutually exclusive)
sit further back peter , for gods ssake man
😃😃😃😃😃
I am not approving of describing law positivly in 19th century UK
The conditons for the working classes were dire indeed
Poverty deprivation and attacks by troops.
Following some improvement such things returned in 1918,
Peter Hitchens as usual is on target, I particularly agree with his views concerning the Royal family stupid partisanship activities at the ridiculous COP26 conference. Sadly Charlie has stabbed yet another nail into the coffin of house of Windsor. I like Peter support the concept of a monarchy, just not this group of cretins.
He is a sell out. Another spineless puppet
Is it true or is it not that Boris Johnstone and all his cabinet are all millionaires, so saying the rewards come after they leave politics is not really true, is that right or is it not lol
I like Peter but he needs to smile some times 😁
Socialist; MULTI millionaire Tony Blair.
talkradio is full of people who believe that you can grow concrete
Gordon Brown didn’t behave like Blair !
He was worse and he covered up the rape and abuse of young girls, by the grooming gangs!
@@sylviaduffin4812 Are you implying Blair didn’t know or care
New Labour didn’t care about us plebs appearances and reality are not the same
Ps Remember Mrs Dufey
US lecture circuit.
Concrete can grow.
Mike is so clever.
@@andrewoliver8930 Which one's MIke? The guy playing the right-wing news pig?
Mike Graham Concrete Grower come get your freshly cut concrete, cement and aggregates, grown from Mikes magic bean's Plank's included
Yeah politics is full of sleaze it's just that there's far more of it in the conservative party as the evidence shows...move along now.. nothing to see here
Mr Hitchins has a habit of being condescending to those who don't share his views. So he's basically no better than anyone else.
Peter Hitchens . Absolute spineless sellout.
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The most astonishing thing revealed in this posting is that kier 'empty suit' starmer can charge £750 per hour for his expertise.