John Wight makes a powerful case. As does Maurice Glasman.
But then, so does Peter Hitchens (whose call for an inquiry into the connection between drug use and terrorist violence is echoed by Christopher Booker). And so does Thom Brooks.
I used to want to be an MP. In the meantime, I have stood down from Lanchester Parish Council due to ill health, and it has worsened since. But even so, I did used to want to be an MP.
Now, though, I think that I might have had a lucky escape. I have never been so conflicted, or seen the people whose judgement I most respected so divided.
I used to want to be an MP. In the meantime, I have stood down from Lanchester Parish Council due to ill health, and it has worsened since. But even so, I did used to want to be an MP.
Now, though, I think that I might have had a lucky escape. I have never been so conflicted, or seen the people whose judgement I most respected so divided.
I used to want to be an MP too. But I didn't realise it would totally compromise my principles!
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what is not happening in this case.
DeletePeter Hitchens' endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn, including against several Labour MPs one of whom writes for the Mail on Sunday, is now complete.
ReplyDeleteEven Private Eye has noticed the similarities, and is wondering, only half-jokingly, when Hitchens is going to become a foreign policy adviser to Corbyn.
DeleteThe Hitchens piece her also echoes word for word several utterances of George Galloway on This Week and (after the Mail will have gone to press) on this week's Sputnik.
But it is Wight and Glasman who come to the same conclusions as Galloway did.
You should have been our MP, everybody knows it. Now we need you to save the CLP from civil war all over the pages of the Evening Chronicle.
ReplyDeleteWell, we all know who that is.
DeleteDisillusioned and angry young men are the sort who tend to turn to terrorism and are also likely to use drugs, but to suggest a causal link between the two is the sort of silly "everything is corrupted" thinking to which conservatives are overly prone.
ReplyDeleteKeep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel better.
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