By PETER HITCHENS By their deeds shall ye know them. David Cameron is a fake conservative and those who still invest hopes in him are asking to be disappointed. There is no need to put him in Downing Street to find out that the Cameron Tories will govern this country just as New Labour have done. On the contrary, there is a great need to ensure he never gets there. Why would we need another Blair? Peter Hitchens: David Cameron is a fake conservative Apart from those people who are happy to be in office but not in power, why should anyone want to help this rabble of cynical poseurs into government? I can understand that Tory MPs want to be Ministers with chauffeured cars, obsequious civil servants and smart red boxes – not to mention the salaries and other perks. Mr Cameron himself is among the champion Westminster expenses claimers of all time, though his greed is somehow all right. I can understand that his friends in the Press hope for special favours and jobs from a Cameron government, just as New Labour’s media toadies did in 1997. But the rest of us have nothing to hope for. Now, after Mr Cameron’s blithe betrayal of his own promise, without a trace of shame or contrition, the Tory Party deserves to fail and collapse, so that it can make way for a proper pro-British party. Here is the proof. Mr Cameron shamelessly goes back on his pledge of a referendum on the EU constitution, as greasily as Gordon Brown reneged on his similar pledge. The smarmy silence of so many of his media apologists cannot hide this. I suspect he knew all along that the pledge was a fake, just as he knows that his ‘never again’ proposals to limit EU power are politically illiterate and foredoomed. Which is the real David Cameron? The one who talks tough – or the one who runs away? Mr Cameron claims to be a traditionalist conservative patriot and a supporter of the married family. Then he uses all the weight of his office in favour of a Tory candidate who is a not-specially-repentant marriage-wrecker and a professed enemy of the Monarchy. Which is the real David Cameron? The one who talks mistily about the And where has the Tory Party been this week, when the nation’s mature grown-ups have been longing for a clear, hard line against illegal drugs, whose unrestrained use is one of the main reasons that our society is broken? Mumbling into its sleeve, because Mr Cameron will not be frank about his own past, let alone condemn it, and presumably because too many of his own louche, moneyed circle are themselves corrupted by illegal drug use. Which is the real David Cameron? The one who pretends he can mend the broken society – or the one who gives comfort to those who broke it in the first place? All the remaining Tory loyalists must surely now be asking themselves if their loyalty is being abused by a cynical careerist – and reluctantly realising what the right answer is to this question. Don’t vote for this fraud. No military death is purposeless, no soldier’s life wasted. Human courage is We must always honour them for it. It is not their fault if they are sent on foolish or wrongful missions. On the contrary, they know that one of their most important duties is to stay out of politics. But many military deaths are politically indefensible, because they have no proper national purpose and happen only because politicians are indecisive, self-deluding We cannot drain Afghanistan’s ocean of corruption. We cannot make it a democracy. Islamist terrorism now grows here without foreign aid. We are achieving nothing. New objectives have to be invented for our mission every few months, as the old ones turn out to be fakes. You would have thought Gordon Brown, who grew up when the similar Vietnam folly was at its height, would be proof against nonsense such as ‘Afghanisation’. If people hate you, and you train and arm them, you are training and arming your enemies, the better to kill you – as we see. But none of the three front benches has the small courage to admit that the war was Now it is rightly unpopular, they dare not admit their error for fear of looking as wretched and ignorant as they actually are. As Rudyard Kipling said long ago of such people in a brief and bitter poem called 'What tale shall serve me here among mine angry and defrauded young?’ Two of the many things that the self-regarding Professor Nutt doesn’t seem to grasp are as follows. First, drugs aren’t only dangerous because they kill you. Making you mentally ill is pretty serious too. Second,if ninnies like him carry on speaking as they do, they will unwittingly be doing the dirty work for the shadowy figures who want the anti-drug laws repealed. And if cannabis, heroin and cocaine ever become as widely used as tobacco and alcohol, the misery they cause will be on a scale unimaginable to us now. At 47, Evan Davis bears endorses a sartorial revolution When I saw the picture of the BBC’s respected former economics editor and Today programme presenter Evan Davis, decked with chains and in funky unlaced boots, I thought my surprise was just another aspect of the ageing process that now has me in its unwelcome grip. I long ago passed the stage when policemen began looking young. Now But it turns out that Mr Davis is 47, a year older than Dr Who, born just after the Berlin Wall went up and months before the Cuban missile crisis. And they tell me there hasn’t been a cultural revolution. _____________________________Revealed in all his fakery, David Cameron - the tough talker who took the coward's way out
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marriage bond and his love of country – or the ferocious backer of Ms Truss?What would they say to all the men they slew?
the greatest of all the virtues because all the others depend upon it and our Armed
Services preserve our long traditions of chivalry and discipline, in a squalid and undisciplined world.
and dishonest.
a mistake. When it was popular, they were happy to share in its popularity.
The Dead Statesman: ‘I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue, and I must face the men I slew.Prof Ninny’s got it wrong again
Trust me Evan, this is not a good look for a man older than Dr Who
This is the age of the boys and girls who never grew up.
it’s High Court judges and Archbishops of Canterbury who look unfeasibly youthful to me.
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