Peter Hitchens rightly advocates that for which Tom Watson is already working.
Yes, Tom is a fixer as well as a campaigner. Those are the two aspects of the role of Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. He is outstandingly good at both of them.
But as for Hitchens's claim that the Labour Party's collapse would deprive the Conservative Party of the bogeyman that held it together, he used to say that the Conservative Party's collapse would deprive the Labour Party of the bogeyman that held it together.
Still, at least he is not predicting that Labour is going to collapse. He spent years predicting that the Conservatives were going to collapse, and then they won an overall majority.
Their departing members and voters had simply been replaced. Mostly with people who had joined specifically because of same-sex marriage, and with people whom that measure had given a sense of permission to vote in accordance with their economic views.
Their departing members and voters had simply been replaced. Mostly with people who had joined specifically because of same-sex marriage, and with people whom that measure had given a sense of permission to vote in accordance with their economic views.
Hitchens seems to have learned his lesson there.
When did he predict the Conservatives would collapse?
ReplyDeleteHe never predicted any such thing.
He simply desired that outcome, as he desires Labour's collapse too.
Can't see anything to disagree with there.
He himself is not attempting that kind of whitewash operation, and good for him.
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