Peter Hitchens: "Does Our Government Have Any Right to Rule Us?" at Bristol University

[@Rootle2]

Bloody legend

[@georgemartin5156]

I hope the students now have a moral compass after having the privilege of listening to Based Hitchens for an hour

[@rootsoftheoak7054]

1. Replace the Monarch with Based Hitchens (Peter) 2. Give full constitutional power to the Monarchy Problem solved

[@gimp1325]

Hitchens is so based

[@kiwitrainguy]

Do you mean "based" or "biased"?

[@kiwitrainguy]

Death Grips - OK, thanks. Only now that poses another question: What is meant by "based" in this context? Please forgive my ignorance, I'm a Boomer.

[@Dimera09]

"Based" here means to be unique and be one's own self.​@@kiwitrainguy

[@kiwitrainguy]

Thank you, that's the best definition I've heard so far.@@Dimera09

[@michaelrichardson9458]

Peter is a highly skilled speaker, incredibly insightful and very knowledgeable. Would be good if the government would take some of his advice...

[@99tubalcain]

You know something: aside from my agreement with Hitchen's on many issues I think the man has style. This post-Trotskyist-metro-Anglican thing he's got going is, for lack of a better term, pretty cool.

[@alankenworthy9722]

I agree , he is a delight. If it were not for his adopting God (despite the efforts of his brother), you would believe he is always on the ball and infallible.

[@99tubalcain]

Maybe if his brother's lust for war in the name 'of reason' had been tempered by an idea of eternal justice and judgement he wouldn't have been so keen on advocating for that disastrous war. But what would I know, I beleive in God too.

[@SwissCheese112]

@@alankenworthy9722 if it wasnt for his belief in god, his other beliefs would not make sense.

[@Dimera09]

What?! I agree with most of Peter's views discussed here, but not the Christian God. Why is that inconsistent?

[@AnAccountHolder]

Journalism Society has had such good speakers. Wish UBTV could learn how to film from a proper angle and record audio from the speakers microphone.

[@AnnieAreYouWokeEh]

"I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice." "And let me remind you also, that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

[@robyourtime]

Can we go back to having an absolute monarchy and a scattering of parish councils across the countryside?

[@craigtitusfitness2249]

Pre English Revolution style?

[@puremusicdaz]

actually that's exactly what God has in mind. and the king's really cool too.

[@kiwitrainguy]

You would have to keep The Magna Carta, though.

[@sauermaischeyahoo7834]

Regarding the United States of Europe and the UK losing its sovereignty, Mr. Hitchens tells us "People did know, but actually they didn't care". This issue was spoken of, but only by the likes of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn, the mainstream politicians were all on about trade (and never touched on the issue of national sovereignty). Moreover, the government assured us that the UK had a veto on everything that the EEC might do. Therefore, since so many of the public didn't want their country to lose sovereignty, the British government would veto any moves towards the formation of a United States of Europe. Whatever happened to that veto?

[@UBTV]

Good question, hopefully this gets addressed by mainstream politicians before it’s too late 🤷🏽‍♂️ thanks for watching!

[@vladivanov5500]

Terrible the way they treated Enoch Powell. The man was a highly esteemed and accomplished scholar before his infamous Rivers of Blood speech, and then they effectively shut him out and smeared him as a conspiracy theorist, a racist, etc etc. And yet, while establishment media might lead the uninitiated to think he was a fringe figure, contemporary polls showed that the vast majority agreed with what he said.

[@SagaciousFrank]

Hitchens borders on comic genius sometimes with his matter of fact deadpan manner - "It doesn't matter to me, I'll be dead soon". I guffawed quite a lot at that casually made remark.

[@antoniakarpova]

he's so dry. love. it.

[@kiwitrainguy]

He was pointing out the difference between his age and the ages of those in the audience.

[@MikeMcDobbs]

The person who set up that microphone needs a slap.

[@chrisc7265]

somebody get that mic some viagra

[@LeeRaldar]

Sound setting to kill reverb: Equaliser = Vocal : Environment = Padded cell.

[@kinkyplunk]

Peter bent the mic down himself, presumably preferring to project his voice - a trait also seen in his brother from time to time.

[@kiwitrainguy]

The acoustics were atrocious.

[@modernwines]

Come come. Perhaps the audio was perfect, gorgeous even, for the attendees. Just because the audio as recorded is atrocious, doesn’t mean that there was any falling short in the mike set-up.

[@CountZero78]

Any way of adding subtitles to the audience questions?

[@UBTV]

+CountZero78 Check the description for brief summaries of them...

[@CountZero78]

UBTVstation Thanks

[@Telcontar1962]

What he says is correct, but its so self-evident I wonder why he had to say it at all. I have maintained exactly what he says here for most of my adult life (nearly 40 years now). You can tell whether a country is democratic IF it protects and supports 2 fundamental principles 1. Its citizens are in control of who they choose to govern AND 2. Whether the citizens get to choose who is permitted into the membership who gets to choose who governs them. Parliaments attitude to the EU and immigration PROVE that they despise and deny both principles.

[@UBTV]

Interesting insight 🤔

[@Excalibur_LP]

FFS it's not hard to tie in the microphone feed to the video feed.

[@gimp1325]

Hitchens is so based in morality I can hardly believe he can move his legs

[@UBTV]

Proof we live in a simulation

[@22grena]

Don't usually agree with Peter Hitchens but on the subject the Tories attempt to spy on us, I definitely do.

[@adamkhan9899]

why did he lower the microphone?

[@Yourismouter]

great talk as always by Peter Hitchens although for a guy who diagnosis well the problem of broken politics and the political match fixing between two or three or four major parties that are barely indistinguishable his wanting to conserve anachronistic the House of Lords, maintain first past the post as opposed to serious electoral reform like proportional representation, and call for just 'limited spending' as opposed to be no corporate money and major bankrollers is quite contradictory and just maintains the problems and endless downward spiral of British politics and parties not representing their true supporters.

[@Rootle2]

Very fashionable opinions

[@Yourismouter]

@@Rootle2 thank you I suppose? lol

[@LoveVanillaRose]

NO. NO they don't. They are public servants. PERIOD. Their job is to do what the people tell them to. They are there to protect our borders and property rights.

[@ColinMill1]

If, as seems possible, the brexit referendum result is overturned by parliament without further reference to the electorate (or is rigged by, say, a referendum offering two sorts of not-really-leave and one sort of remain) then I believe we might just see the creation of a new party and the demise of one, or both of the main parties (just as the Liberals shrank after the rise of the Labour party). Given that the EU is likely to be destroyed by the departure of Italy and/or France if it persists with its intransigence perhaps this, in the long term, would be an even better outcome for the UK than the half-hearted brexit that either of the current parties is perhaps going to deliver. BTW - as a former student of the physics department at Bristol I hope very much that it was not a student of that department who was responsible for the quality of this recording!

[@vladivanov5500]

The EU never gave a better justification for leaving the EU than how its leaders have behaved since Britain made the decision to do so. Immediately they followed with threats, sanctions, even going publicly stating that Britain must be severely punished merely for exercising its own independence from EU oligarchs. As one commentator put it, 'who needs enemies when you have friends like these?'

[@juzeus9]

incredibly bad sound quality. reverberation and almost some feedback. had to raise output to 100% and still barely heard peter, yet turn down to 25% for audience - which i still couldn't hear because they were eating the mic, and then 5% for thunderous applauds.

[@megenberg8]

The government has no right to rule. Representatives are elected. Laws are made. The states choose legislation via debate/majority process, old as the hills. People agree or not. Courts decide on a case-by- case (individual) basis and on precedent following established due process. Any disagreement(s) proceed to arbitration or committee - the will of the people comes to be recognized through the ballot, peaceful assembly, and lawful process. That is why the government cannot be sued (originally), because the state is not a party, but a lawgiver belonging to and issuing from the people themselves. (The people are the government and ergo cannot sue themselves). The facts are readily available to everyone, and there is the long and short of it..... love you Brits! Long live and all that ; ) ! ! !

[@suminshizzles6951]

With FPTP, elections are a farce in most cases. This comment alone warrants snooping on me by my own government since i advocate changing the election process.

[@Indigomyth]

sound quality is shocking

[@jasona69]

The microphone Peter was using was facing the wrong way

[@youwhat8991]

An act passed in 1984!!!!!

[@abbamanic]

Sound quality, as at the Cambridge event, utterly awful, what is that roar, air conditioning?

[@UBTV]

Air conditioning, almost our immense passion

[@rahuldahoob4513]

This would be banned in 2022

[@antoniakarpova]

Peter is so punk

[@ParticleJesus]

Morality Man's natural whistle needs some insane amount de-Essing compression in order to combat that sibilance.

[@allendaniel2748]

Dukes, earls, and aristocratic ruled Poland! The nation disappeared, because they got better deals with our neighbours. Self-interest at it’s best! Hopefully, Britain will not!

[@dearistocratia328]

Peter (all) If you put the 'dumbing down' of the British population in historical context, it is an attempt to establish a secular version of christianity under pseudo-scientifc argument, and the closure of the church, and the extermination of the aristocracy, using forcible conversion by the state, using the same aggressive means that christianity was a successful attempt to establish a mystical christianity, using forcible conversion by the state, and the closure of the pagan temples and stoic schools, and the extermination of the aristocratic families. In the modern era, feminism and socialism and the attack on marriage and family have caused a population collapse as great as any plague in history. In the ancient era, the transfer of rates of reproduction from the middle and upper class to the lower classes, plus rapid immigration by the lower classes, was followed by devastating plagues that left the western roman empire indefensible. Our middle ages did not experience immigration, so we survived that plague. IN the ancient and modern world we did not, and may not unless we learn from it. In this context there is no difference between the prelude to the dark ages in the collapsing roman empire, and the prelude to another dark age in the collapse of the British empire. There is no talk necessary. We will destroy, fight and kill, or be little more than the priests at Lindesfarne as the boat people come to steal from us. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

[@juzeus9]

and the attack on MEN. the wage gap victim is men. the rape culture victim is men. domestic violence is committed twice as often by women against men. 1 billion men around the world have been rape-torture-mutilated as children.

[@Richard0292]

Agreed but violent resistance is a dead end. It will achieve as much as doing nothing. It will even bolster the other side by giving them moral legitimacy.

[@ralphdavidson9542]

Pardon?