On Any Questions, Peter Hitchens was fulsome in his denunciation of the Trade Union Bill, with its appalling proposed attacks on civil liberties.
He also asked the highly pertinent question, why was this needed when Norman Tebbit's very stringent anti-union legislation remained in force, and when the unions were in consequence almost incalculably less powerful than they were before its enactment?
Hitchens says on the recording of Any Questions (at 27:05)
ReplyDelete"I disagree with Jeremy Corbyn about almost everything except maybe the Iraq War" but at least he believes what he says and says it with passion.
Hitchens quite rightly adds that, despite the fact Corbyn is wrong on almost everything, he should be chosen as Labour leader on one condition; "can we please find somebody on the other side who speaks with equal passion for patriotism, for Christianity, for the married family and for the traditions of this country that badly need defending. I'd like to see somebody on the other side as firm about that as Jeremy Corbyn is on his."
I couldn't agree more.
We need a Corbyn of the Right.
If you want someone of diametrically opposed views, then that would have to be a pro-war European federalist and supporter of austerity and of the erosion of civil liberties. There are plenty of those as it is.
DeleteHitchens does not "disagree with Corbyn about almost everything". He agrees with him about all of the foregoing (including the Trade Union Bill), and about the need for publicly owned railways, utilities and postal services. Just for a start.