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PETER HITCHENS: The TRUE problem with May and Corbyn? They're far closer than you think

Pour bien comprendre les lignes ci-dessous, il faut savoir que Peter Hitchens est un Brexiter de longue date et qu'il reproche aux Tories :

1) d'être faussement conservateurs (on a les mêmes en France).

2) de considérer le Brexit comme un simple numéro de cirque électoral, de ne pas le prendre au sérieux et de ne pas savoir réellement ce qu'ils font.

Il pense que le Brexit est très désirable mais catastrophique s'il est mal négocié.

La critique que je fais à Hitchens est d'être excessivement craintif, à la limite de la pusillanimité. C'est un causeur, pas un faiseur. En politique, rien n'est jamais parfait. Il vaut mieux un mauvais Brexit qu'un faux Brexit.

Lui non plus n'a pas confiance dans son pays. C'est comme les Français qui ne veulent pas quitter l'Euro, ces cons (oui, je sais, ça fait du monde. « Mort aux cons ! Vaste programme ! »).

Au moins, Hitchens ne se cache pas de manquer de confiance dans la Grande-Bretagne telle qu'elle est devenue en soixante ans et il explique très clairement pourquoi (dans d'autres articles et même dans des livres).

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Theresa May ’s Tories have always been far closer to Jeremy Corbyn than they like to admit. That’s why all their attacks on him fail so badly, and why there is a real possibility that he will become Prime Minister if the Government is idiotic enough to call an Election.

The Tories’ wild, Trotskyist policies on marriage, ‘equality’, ‘diversity’ and education actually aren’t much different from Mr Corbyn’s.

See their recent imposition of compulsory politically correct indoctrination in schools. Their spending and tax levels aren’t much lower than his would be, either.

And, while they go on about Mr Corbyn and the IRA, it is a Tory Government that is ready to let former British soldiers go on trial for actions in Northern Ireland , while IRA killers benefit from an amnesty.

As for Mr Corbyn’s nasty connections with Hezbollah, the May Government’s fervent and crazy support for Al Qaeda fanatics in Syria isn’t really any more defensible. I might add that anti-Semitism is not exactly unknown in dimmer regions of the Tory Party

This is why the Tory assault on Mr Corbyn has been so personal. There wasn’t really anything else left.

Embarrassingly for both Labour and Tories, some of his actual policies are often more sensible than Mrs May’s.

He is, for a start, a lifelong opponent of British membership of the EU, like his hero Tony Benn.

She is a lifelong supporter. Comically, neither of them dare admit their real views openly.

Millions of commuters have come round to his view that the sooner the railways are renationalised, the better.

And everybody now knows he was right to oppose the Iraq War, when both the big-party front benches supported it.

So let’s not get too righteous about the Prime Minister’s attempt to co-operate with him, in the hope of escaping from the hopeless mess we have got ourselves into over the EU.

It is a rare instance, in these times, of politicians at least trying to put country before party. It is not exactly a rerun of Stalin and Hitler’s pact in 1939.

I fear it will fail anyway, but – given the price millions will pay if we mess this up – it was a risk worth taking. I won’t condemn it.

The concrete-headed behaviour of many Tories, who have in the past three years become fanatics in a cause they couldn’t have cared less about in 2010, and still don’t understand, is the reason for this.
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