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Hitchens is one complicated, difficult to pin down, character. He wants the railways nationalised, but in many other ways, he's a right wing lunatic. In fact, I recently saw him in an interview with Owen Jones on Jones' YouTube channel, in which he describes the current Tory party as a left wing party. 

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Hitchens is one complicated, difficult to pin down, character. He wants the railways nationalised, but in many other ways, he's a right wing lunatic. In fact, I recently saw him in an interview with Owen Jones on Jones' YouTube channel, in which he describes the current Tory party as a left wing party. 

 

I think when he says the Tories are left wing, he just means they're relatively liberal on some social policies. Stuff like gay marriage, and not being particularly vigilant on drugs, etc. Stuff that the Tories don't really give a fuck about, but know that if they stay reasonably in line with one or more of the other parties they won't lose as many votes. 

 

He'd be to the left of the Tories economically, because he wants key industries nationalised, council houses, good nationalism (British companies actually making stuff, creating decent jobs, etc) rather than the pretend nationalism of the current government. 1950s Britain. Some deplorable social policies, but the country wasn't run exclusively for hedge fund managers and Starbucks.

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