As the polluted flood (it is not a tide; it will not go back down again) of spite, greed and violence washes on to their very doorsteps, well-off and influential Left-wingers at last meet the filthy thing they have created, and which they ignored when it did not affect them personally.
No doubt they will find ways to save themselves. But they will not save the country. Because even now they will not admit that all their ideas are wrong, and that the policies of the past 50 years – the policies they love – have been a terrible mistake. I have heard them in the past few days clinging to their old excuses of non-existent ‘poverty’ and ‘exclusion’.
He then goes on to grab the Prime Minister by the back of his powdered neck and thrust him into the spotlight, ruthlessly excoriating Cameron's response to the mayhem.
Water cannon and plastic bullets indeed. What an utter admission of failure, that after 50 years of the most lavish welfare state in the solar system, you cannot govern your country without soaking the citizenry in cold water and bombarding them with missiles from a safe distance. Except, of course, that it is because of the welfare system that this is so.
Read it all. There are graphic photographs of the destruction accompanying the column.
Hitchens (and Enoch Powell) are not alone. On a British news program yesterday, historian David Starkey added his own scathingly brutal commentary: White chavs have become black.
Both Hitchens and Starkey are correct - the 'culture' emanating from the inner city, and polluting the remainder of the west is nothing better than criminally-inspired violence spread by criminally-bad 'entertainment'.
ReplyDeleteI've often wanted to be a fly on the wall when the brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens get together.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that Peter is wrong though. I don't mean his thesis, I mean his statement: The country formerly known as Great Britain. Great Britain is a sovereign state comprised of the countries England, Scotland and Wales. It is not a country per se.
I could be wrong.
I watched the Starkey video. He shirked away from being completely commited. Even at that, all the other lefty participants were over him like black on licorice calling him out for being "racist."
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