PETER HITCHENS: The night a fleet of Tory snake-oil tankers sailed into Rochester...and sank

MailOnline ^ | 11/22/2014 | Peter Hitchens

[Nextrush]

I wondered how our neutered, bootlicking, pro-Government media would manage to turn David Cameron's devastating personal and political defeat in Rochester into a disaster for Red Ed.

Piles of money, tankers laden with snake-oil, five visits by the Prime Minister himself, even a frantic plea for Guardian readers' votes could not save the Tories from what I reckon was the worst defeat in their entire history, losing a seat to a party that really believes in what the Tories pretend to believe in.....

Here's the supposedly big story: Emily Thornberry MP posted a tweet in which she wrote the words 'Image from Rochester" next to a picture of a house draped with football flags.....

I guess it's fitting that someone who uses phoney outrage against others should herself be destroyed by phoney outrage.....

But the incident is essentially trivial......

What does Rochester mean? It means that a barrier to real and significant change is crumbling and may yet collapse......

Seven years ago the brilliant pollster and Blairite Establishment figure Peter Kellner....told me at a public debate: "I think its really important that the Conservative Party does survive".......

....Why does a lifelong Lefty like Mr. Kellner wish to save the Tories?....

Mr. Kellner read my mind an continued: "If the Conservatives were to go the way that Peter expects....I am frightened as to what kind of Right-of-centre politics would then spring up....

When Mr. Kellner uses terms such as 'far-Right nationalist xenophobic', he means a party that would be hostile to the European Union's control of our Government, laws and borders. The British Left have for many years seen Brussels as the way to turn Britain into the sort of country they want, by the back door....

The Tory Party has helped the Left for decades....

[Nextrush]

When I read Peter Hitchens description of the political scene in the UK I feel like I'm reading a description of politics in the USA today but there is one aspect that is notably missing...."losing a seat to a party that really believes in what the Tories pretend to believe in"..."The Tory Party has helped the Left for decades".... When will we realize that 95 percent of Republicans pretend to believe in Constitutional and Conservative principles and end up helping the Left by entrenching their policies once enacted and begin to develop a sane, reasonable and principled alternative in our general elections like UKIP in the UK?

[Nextrush]

The link is bad, so here is the link to the article in full

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2845812/PETER HITCHENS-night-fleet-Tory-snake-oil-tankers-sailed-Rochester-sank.html

[omega4412]

The British Left have for many years seen Brussels as the way to turn Britain into the sort of country they want, by the back door....

The American Left have for many years seen illegal immigration as the way to turn the US into the sort of country they want, by the back door....