Insight with Peter Hitchens: How British politics lost its way
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- 11/05/2009 - Peter Hitchens talks about the need for a new political compass in a world where traditional boundaries between the Left and Right no longer exist.
Left-wingers backed the invasion of Iraq and Tories campaign for civil liberties yet conventional wisdom insists on operating as if the age-old divisions between political parties still apply, argues journalist, author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens.
In his new book The Broken Compass How British Politics lost its way, Peter Hitchens, who writes for the Mail on Sunday, argues that the real divide is between politicians and the electorate and is both a threat to Parliament and to society.
Peter Hitchens takes on the "conformist media" for continuing to adhere to such obsolete notions of Left and Right and calls for the re-establishment of proper adversarial politics based on principle.
Peter Hitchens is a journalist, author and broadcaster who worked on the Daily Express for most of his career. He resigned on principle in protest at the takeover by Richard Desmond and now writes for the Mail on Sunday.
The best commentator on the state of politics in Britain.
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Incredible just how relevant this still is today. Probably more so.
The woman moaning about his fire brigade argument exemplifies the entire point of his argument. This is what happens when emotion leads before logic & reason.
finally, a man who speaks sense.
Lovely how the woman abandoned her argument at the time of fire brigade example.
Truth hurts
And tell me who likes hearing that.
This was 2009. Imagine the slide leftward she has made since.
I think it is exactly the right time, for a New Conservative Party, so what's stopping you, Peter! Don't leave it to Nigel Farage!
thewizeard Why not though?
thewizeard We need someone to put forward actual principled conservatism I agree. Nigel Farage has no principles but to leave the European Union, and UKIP are just a projection of that. With anything else, if it is politically popular he will adopt it.
The issue with Peter is he has no desire to do it, and I don't believe he would be suited to the absurd rigmarole of modern day politics. You have to be sharp and flexible, and Peter isn't flexible.
@@stephenowen3383 For that to happen, there has to be a military victory against the people who won the last big war. Given how unlikely that is, we're left with petty politics, and principles are weak in the face of all the other tactics that can be employed.
A military victory against the winners? Who won the war?
@@michaelfern4079 3 guesses
42:05 “yes, let me finish” 😂😂
He's about 10 years ahead of everyone else
Peter says his book is selling better now than it ever has before
I've read P.H for over twenty years. There's a lot to be said for what he has called a Gaullist political party and I think it would be great if the two main parties were broken up. I write from May 2023 and we are in a terrible mess now.
The guy at 33m sounded like he was pissed.
I like listening to Peter but I think his views on Powel are simplistic.
Micheal Foot thought Powel wasn’t a racist and I tend to agree.
What Powel failed to recognise (and many of us) is that his England died on the bloody fields of Flanders in 1914 -18.
Rip Anglo Norman England.
It would have been interesting if the two had engaged in debate.
Peter is of course entitled to his views.
England died in Flanders? How so? Thanks.
@@michaelfern4079 All the good men were killed by machine gyn fire in no mans land and their bodies turned into rat food.
Hitchens has a strange blindspot on certain topics, and this is certainly one of them.
The problem is they never had a compass, even if they had, none of them would have known how to use it. Maybe they just wanted to be supprised when they got there, wherever there was.
People should vote more!
He doesn't he is simply a Christian if that makes him insane so be it. I personally salute himfor standing by his faith.
Sound quality is poor unfortunately.
Haha the lady didn't like the truth
Hahaha no she didn’t
Truth hurts and that’s what she hates
They don’t pack their bags and leave when they lose a general election in Ireland.mr Hitchens is right-when they do eventually get an elected government, it will be mostly the same people.
At last someone sensible, i.e. Jonathan Bones
He thinks the parties are broken but he is happy with the House of Lords. Says it all.
+Ned Kelly The only thing that has broken the House of Lords is that it has made itself mostly non-hereditary and long before that voted itself irrelevant.
A lord owes their allegiance to the land, and by extension the people. A bureaucrat owes allegiance merely to power, hence population replacement.
@@GabrielNicho the House of Lords should have remained hereditary (in the main) however those seating there should have only done so on the strict understanding that privilege has responsibilities
@@secretsteven4535A blend between the hereditaries and an appointment system like the Irish Senate would have been adequate in maintaining the integrity of the house whilst expanding the role of experts across sectors.
@@dannyd96 Which would be
Much preferable to the present fiasco
Women and men are different...women are not rude, women are emotional, and not willing to take responsibility for what they say. Women are emotional, but men are rational.
*Discrimination*
*Oxford Dictionary* - The _unjust_ or _prejudicial treatment of_ different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
DrRamer2 And it also means:
*Oxford Dictionary* - The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
Yes, but that's a modern, adulterated definition designed to coincide with modern misuse. I am still very much alive and of working age. The dictionary I have from a child is different. Based on that quite legitimate definition I discriminate all the time; apart from anything else, I'm vegetarian, so I am discriminatory about what I put on my plate and what I put in my mouth and chew. I intend to continue to discriminate - on that issue and on anything else I choose.
Rich William "
Yes, but that's a modern, adulterated definition designed to coincide with modern misuse"
Says you!
utubecomment21 no it's actually a fact, definitions have been changed a great deal in the last few decades for the exact reason you've just illustrated so well, so that people can be put into boxes when they step outside of the "norm."
discrimination - the making of distinctions, divisions, separations
If Peter wouldn't hold the door for that fierce specimen of humanity called "woman"...
...well, it would still be some kind result of his discrimination.
make sure you don't forget your fedora on your way out.
I don't agree with all of Peter Hitchens's analysis and tactics (on not voting just vote for the existing alternatives not any of the major parties that's easier and radically can be done). and I most certainly do not agree his social conservatism and Prohibitionist view but he is right that UK politics is broken, and there isn't a dime worth a difference between New Labour even with a Corbyn heading it, the Tories, Lib-Dems or UKIP there all including the press different flavors of right-wing sodas.all imperialists abroad, all for austerity, all for punitive punishments and conserving a regressive class system, and assaulting people's civil liberties. I'm glad PEter Hitchens I like his comments on the late Tony Benn the best prime minister the UK never had, and the fact he's defended Jeremy Corbyn and like Peter Oborne his colleague at the Daily Mail has defended Corbyn against the disgusting assault by him by the entire corporate press/state press and political parties and see him as a genuine opposition figure and refreshing compared to the echo chambers the UK public is subjected to in education, work, TV, and so fourth. Hitchens is also an anti-imperialist is one of the few voices in major publications against the Anti-Russia hysteria. As a man of the left I genuinely want to get his two books the Abolition of Britain and The Broken Compass. and he is right on TV is has destroyed us lol
Labour used to be the bastion of small c social conservatism.
Seems your upset that he wants to keep drugs illegal.
If your a Labour voter I’d go with the SDP
Labour is as dead as the Tory party.
@@seanmoran6510 I am hehe! I don't support Prohibition and i'am a socially liberal person but yeah I think Peter Hitchens would find kindred spirits with the Blue Labor folk then . and funny since typing this comment 2 years ago I got that book of Hitchens and the Abolition of Britain and "The Phony Victory: The World War II Illusion" all well written, I particularly due to my anti-imperialism enjoyed the Phony Victory, and actually am waiting on getting his book about his journey into religion. but yeah disagree with him on alot, but some of his positions I do like and Hitchens says he gets that alot with readers hehe! That he gets a hate mail on such and such and then a week or so later the person will contact him praising him for either his opposition to the war on Syria or debunking Anti-Russia/Putin derangement syndrome/ hysteria
@@Yourismouter Blue Labour sounds a lot like the Lib Dems in the 2000s: a contrarian middle class position of pseudo-protest.
@@Mr___X haha! kind off, Blue Labor folk belive in in the rights of workers and what not, but more socially conservatives, they think you can be progressive and proud to wave the union jack, and essentially they are a kind of left-nationalism, so they oppose the EU but they believe in forms of corporatism, wanting strict immigration, and i'm sure talk to them about the rights of queer folk and they'll not be enthusiastic about it, tearing down statues of racist people or folks with a racist history they'll be opposed to that,. Paul Embery formerly I think or still a member of the Fire Brigades Union is for Blue Labour , Kate Hoey former MP of Labour for Vauxhall, blimey even George Galloway subscribe to the "Blue labour" thought, and like I said someone like Peter Hitchens I would think he would embrace the Blue Labour folk as its rather socially conservative, but wanting some forms of socialism that he would embrace like nationalization of railways and some issues like that.
First off he doesn't believe in Broze age myths and Christianity has more proof than anything else you could put forward.
@lemonadeforsale: I hope you were joking when you posted that comment.
Trump 2016
Love Peter, but questioner nails him on the discrimination debate.
Really? At what point was that?
lol must have listened to something else, she was totally and utterly destroyed
Yeah, in fantasy land maybe...
Peter is a lot like Tony Benn. Great man but I wouldnt want to live in his or Tony's world.
Surely Peter is a Social Democrat Economically
Tony Benn wasn’t.
This Thatcherism world is loathsome.