Given that Peter Hitchens’ weekly column was absent from the Mail on Sunday the week before the general election, Mr S was glad to have the opportunity to hear his thoughts on the election at the Hay festival.
Taking to the Telegraph stage this morning, Hitchens joined Johann Hari, David Aaronovitch and Bronwen Maddox for a panel discussion titled ‘Election 2015: How was it for you?’. True to form, he began by criticising the Conservative government, claiming the Tories’ majority win was down to ‘lies and money’. He then went on to suggest that those who ‘fell’ for the Conservatives’ spin over the state of the economy had lost the plot:
‘You have to wonder whether the people who voted for a Conservative majority were in possession of their faculties.’
Not everyone was taken by Hitchens’ words, with Aaronovitch describing him as ‘idiosyncratic’. This didn’t stop Hitchens from sharing his views.
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