Useless maybe. But at least she's honest

By PETER HITCHENS

Last updated at 21:00 22 July 2007


Why does it 事柄 if 政治家,政治屋s took 麻薬s in their 青年, and keep 静かな about it? Because the 恐れる of (危険などに)さらす might 内密に 影響(力) their 態度 to the 法律 now.

Jacqui Smith

Home 長官 Jacqui Smith is not really my 肉親,親類d of 政治家,政治屋 and will, I am sure, be as useless on 罪,犯罪 as the 残り/休憩(する) of her party. But she rightly said that she was compelled to give an honest answer when questioned about whether she had used cannabis and 認める she had been wrong to take the 麻薬.

Her 発覚 in no way 土台を崩すs the 政府's 延滞の 決定/判定勝ち(する) to reclassify cannabis as the dangerous 毒(薬) it undoubtedly is. Contrast this with Mr David Cameron. His one 重要な 活動/戦闘 before 存在 wafted into the Tory leadership was in 2002 to support a disgraceful Home 事件/事情/状勢s 委員会 報告(する)/憶測 勧めるing the 弱めるing of the cannabis 法律s.

The 委員会 had been told the 麻薬 was a serious mental health 脅し.

And his Tory 同僚 Angela Watkinson had the sense to 辞退する to 調印する the 報告(する)/憶測.

Unlike Jacqui Smith, Mr Cameron continues to keep 静かな about his own 麻薬 use. As long as this is so, I think we are する権利を与えるd to ask if his 見解(をとる)s on the 支配する may be 影響(力)d by past 活動/戦闘s he has not yet had the guts to own up to, or to 収容する/認める were wrong.

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CLAPPED OUT CAMERON: A WRECK READY FOR CRUSHING

David Cameron

I have to say this because, for some strange 推論する/理由, nobody else will and because it happens to be the most important thing in British politics, far more so than the meaningless squabble over cash for peerages.

As long as it is 未解決の, the 保守的な, 愛国的な people of Britain will have no 発言する/表明する in 議会.

Please, stop pretending David Cameron is a success.

His 指名する was on the 投票(する) in Ealing Southall, where the adaptable Mr Tony Lit stood as the 候補者 for "David Cameron's 保守的なs".

Mr Cameron went there five times. He 本人自身で 課すd Mr Lit on an unwilling 地元の Tory Party. His 補佐官s genuinely thought that this would be their 打開.

Instead, they (機の)カム an even worse third than they did under Michael Howard in 2005.

In Sedgefield, 一方/合間, Mr Cameron's Tories slipped from second place to third, not much ahead of the squalid BNP.

This is a personal, 同様に as a political, 失敗. If it weren,t for the hypnotic 影響 Mr Cameron seems to have on parts of the マスコミ, he would this week 直面する the 一致した derision of the 圧力(をかける) (of the sort that destroyed Iain Duncan Smith), open 反乱 from his doomed, unleadable party and serious 圧力 to 辞職する.

Mr Cameron's personality 教団 has somehow enslaved さもなければ sensible newspaper and TV commentators.

I can understand Left-wingers warming to Mr Cameron, who is, after all, one of them.

Peter Kellner, a 主要な Left-wing 世論調査員, recently told me why people of his sort were so keen on keeping the Tories alive, even though he 受託するs they have hardly any chance of winning the next 選挙.

He said: "It's really important that the 保守的な Party 生き残るs as a 相当な brand, because there will always be a need for a centre-権利 party."

Mr Kellner, a 退役軍人 労働 支持者 whose wife is 労働 leader in the Lords, explained that the Tories were "our (that is to say the 流行の/上流の Left's) "best 防御壁/支持者", against what he called "汚い", politics.

What he 恐れるd was a "相当な far-権利 国家主義者 xenophobic party in Britain".

These 表現s are meant to 脅す you. What Mr Kellner means by this is a party that would take us out of the Left's beloved EU, 停止(させる) 集まり 移民/移住 and punish 犯罪のs.

So, it's 平易な to see why Left 自由主義のs like Mr Cameron. What I cannot understand is why so many 愛国的な 保守的な types have stayed silent so long.

If the Tory Party were your car, it would be broken 負かす/撃墜する at the 道端. If it were your fridge, all your food would go bad. If it were your accountant, you'd be 破産者/倒産した. If it were your lawyer, you'd be in 刑務所,拘置所.

And in all 事例/患者s, you'd get rid of it and get a different one.

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LEGALISE THE AFGHAM POPPY ... OR NAPALM THE QUIET FLIELDS OF OXFORDSHIRE

As I bicycled through the Oxfordshire countryside the other day, I noticed a very strange thing: 広大な/多数の/重要な 広範囲にわたる fields of cultivated poppies not growing as 少しのd まっただ中に the corn, but 明確に 工場/植物d for 収穫.

My 同僚s at The Mail on Sunday quickly 設立するd that this was perfectly 合法的な, やめる 普及した and 不正に needed because of a world 不足 of morphine.

Now, many Afghan and British people are under the impression that one of the 推論する/理由s for our having 7,700 軍隊/機動隊s in Afghanistan is to stop the 農業者s there growing あへん poppies.

As it happens, the 兵士s 港/避難所't time to do this, since they spend all their time defending themselves against attacks from the people they are 恐らく there to help. The 恐れる that they will eradicate the poppy fields is one of many 推論する/理由s for their 墓/厳粛/彫る/重大な unpopularity there.

So it 追加するs 大いに to my 怒り/怒る at this futile, 血まみれの 操作/手術 which has 証明するd far costlier in lives and serious 傷害s even than Anthony Blair's shameful Iraq adventure.

If あへん poppies can be grown 合法的に in Britain, then why not in Afghanistan? If there is a world 不足 of morphine, then let the Afghans help 打ち勝つ it by buying their 刈る 合法的に.

There is only one other way to be 一貫した. We could get the US 空気/公表する 軍隊 to ナパーム弾(で攻撃する) Oxfordshire. I can give them a six-人物/姿/数字 地図/計画する 言及/関連.

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? The BBC is in trouble for 偽のing 勝利者s in さまざまな silly 競争s. Pathetic stuff, really, and thanks おもに to its dogged 追跡 of the lowest ありふれた denominator. Isn't it a much more serious 詐欺 that the 会社/団体 continues to pretend it is impartial, while 追求するing a relentless left-自由主義の 協議事項?

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? Wouldn't you know it? Traffic cameras are now to be used for 監視. Bit by bit, the 国境s between the さまざまな Big Brother 装置s will break 負かす/撃墜する until it won't be possible to buy a 瓶/封じ込める of milk without it 存在 記録,記録的な/記録するd by 当局. Do your bit to 失望させる the 1984 明言する/公表する by 新たにするing your パスポート now, or at least before October, however long it has to run. That way you'll 避ける 存在 指紋d, save money, and annoy Gordon Brown.

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? 運動ing licences at 18? Nothing like old enough - for men anyway. Most men shouldn't be 許すd 近づく a car till they're at least 30, and even then they shouldn't be 許すd to have their own seat belts or 空気/公表する 捕らえる、獲得するs.

I don't know why people think that 積極的な 運動ing is proof of masculinity (I 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う it is 一般に the opposite). But as long as they do, then it's best they don't 運動 at all.

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