By
Peter Hitchens
By far the most important event
of the week is the attempt to conceal the truth – that the leadership of
the Tory Party hate their members and their voters.
I
explain in the piece at the bottom of this page why the sad and cruel
murder of a soldier in London does not deserve the attention it is still
getting. I also show why the media have, as usual, failed to see what
is in front of their noses.
The media flock, bleating in unison as always, have also missed the point of the ‘swivel-eyed loons’ episode.
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Divided: Does the leadership of the Tory party hate their members and their voters?
Political journalists have known for
years that senior political figures in all parties despise their own
supporters, while seeking their votes and money.
They don’t say much about it, because
they are themselves part of the establishment. Ministers pretend to be
their friends, and they pretend back, often over expensive restaurant
tables. They advance each other’s careers.
It
really is not done to blab about private conversations over lunch and
dinner. So what happened when Mr or Mrs X, high in the Tory Party,
complained that Conservative Party members were annoying lunatics?
To
you, this would be an interesting revelation about British politics.
After all, if Gerald Ratner could pretty much destroy a business by
saying some of its products were ‘c***’, also at a private occasion,
surely a political party whose chiefs feel this way about their
supporters is also rightly doomed?
And
so it is quite urgent news, in my view the biggest political story of
the year so far. It ought to mean a complete revolution in national
politics.
It
is absolute confirmation of what I have been trying to tell you for
years about the blatant fraud that is the Tory Party, which, if it were a
commercial organisation, would long ago have been bankrupt or worse.
Yet it took two days to get into the papers, and even then the name of the person involved was kept secret.
I
cannot help you, not having been there. But I would draw your attention
to the statement issued by the Downing Street press office, a
taxpayer-financed outfit committed by Civil Service rules to strict
truthfulness.
It says:
‘It is categorically untrue that anyone in Downing Street made the
comments about the Conservative party associations and activists
reported in the Times and the Telegraph.’
Read it very carefully and you will see that this is what we in my sordid trade call a ‘non-denial denial’.
The word ‘anyone’ is followed by the phrase ‘in Downing Street’.
Gentle
readers, this means that it is just conceivably possible that somebody
did say it, but not somebody who lives or works in Downing Street.
That’s quite a lot of people, isn’t it?
In
the meantime, if you have worked for, supported, donated to, or voted
for the Tory Party, I can assure you that its leaders laugh and sneer at
you when they think they are safe to do so.
If I were you, I should repay them in kind, and leave them in the lurch for ever. It’s the only revenge they’d understand.
Drugs, a bigger threat than Al Qaeda
Michael Adebolajo's life changed in his teens when he began taking drugs, especially cannabis
When a soldier was murdered on the streets of London, what use was it to anyone that the Prime Minister flew back from Paris?
What
use was the fatuous committee, grandiosely called COBRA (SLOW-WORM
would be a better name), that gathered portentously in a bunker, as if
the Blitz was still on?
This is just street theatre – a bunch of powerless people pretending they can protect us from the wholly unpredictable.
What
use are the expensive spooks who track, snoop and file, who want the
power to lock us up for weeks and to peer even more deeply into our
lives? They failed to prevent this, though they knew all about the
suspects.
As
for the police, living on a reputation they won decades ago and no
longer deserve, wouldn’t a constable on old-fashioned foot patrol have
been more help on this occasion than the squadrons of armed militia who
appeared long after the event, blazing away in the street?
The
police force in this country is now bigger than our shrunken Army, but
it is extraordinary how its members are never, ever there, except to
protect the powerful.
Too busy patrolling Twitter, perhaps.
Now
look at the suspects. Oceans of piffle have been written (as usual)
about the mythical bogey of ‘Al Qaeda’. We are in yet another frenzy
about the ‘hate preachers’ who are the inevitable result of 40 years of
state multiculturalism.
The
English Defence League (even stupider than the liberal elite) is
‘defending our way of life’ by throwing bottles at the police.
But
nobody has seen any significance in the fact that Michael Adebolajo’s
life changed utterly when, as a teenager, he began taking drugs,
especially cannabis.
Use
of this drug, particularly when young, is closely correlated with
irreversible mental illness. That’s also when he embraced the barmy
version of Islam that seems to have him in its grip.
There
are plenty of other young drug-users roaming our streets. Most of them
couldn’t even spell ‘Al Qaeda’ and won’t embrace Islam.
But
many of them will become mental patients. Some of them, alas, will be
‘released into the community’ to commit awful acts of unhinged violence
that barely make the local TV news.
No Prime Ministers will fly back from Paris. No Whitehall committees will meet. No noble statements of defiance will be made.
And
yet, if we strengthened and enforced our drug laws, instead of watering
them down to nothingness as we have done, much of this would be
preventable.
A 'tough' PM with a VERY short memory
The
Prime Minister says that we never buckle to terror. Why does he get
away with this? The British State buckled pathetically to terror in 1998
when it surrendered to the IRA.
Has
he forgotten the mass release of terrorist prisoners? Has he forgotten
the dismantling of the Army’s security apparatus in return for a
completely unconfirmed ‘decommissioning’ of IRA weapons?
Has
he somehow not noticed that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness are now
in office, and the Union Flag can’t be flown every day any more in
Northern Ireland?
Come
to that, what about our sucking up to Yasser Arafat of the PLO? Or our
craven release of the hijacker Leila Khaled? I could go on.
Terrorism
flourishes precisely because we keep giving in to it. These fake
statements of resolve should be met with raspberries and laughter, not
respectful silence.
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