So are you, but you call yourself a one nation conservative.

Thinking someone with centre right political views is aligned in any way with Corbyn is plain daft.

As I have said in these pages many times, I loath Corbyn and his politics. As I also blame him for Brexit, he is not my favourite person.

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My political views are far closer to the traditional heart of the Conservative Party of my youth than those you espouse.

You are to conservatism what Oswald Mosely was to compassion.

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Don't one nation conservatives have a sense of humour? You/they make me laugh anyway.

I wrote exactly what I meant. Which is my views are closer to the heart of the traditional Conservative Party of my youth than yours are. That's the truth.

Not today's Tory Party, which is nothing like the one I admire, and not your type of "conservatism" which is way out on the extremes, beyond even the current mob, who are bad enough.

What do I believe in? Fiscal responsibility. Balanced budgets and not living beyond your means. Hard work. Full employment. Rewarding enterprise. I also believe in a meritocracy and a society which protects the vulnerable but is intolerant of laziness. I believe in upholding the law and our values. In joining others in preserving peace and in helping other nations to grow, be healthy and happy.

I refuse to correct your slanders about my views on the grooming gangs again. I have done it countless times, but it makes no impression on you at all. I will just say, for the avoidance of any doubt, that these assertions are untrue. You revert to them whenever you run out of arguments and look for some mud to throw. It's pathetic.

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I don't doubt for a moment that our own security forces aren't at work trying to influence public opinion in Russia. It will be though much harder to do there, where most of the media is under heavy state control. Facebook, and others, are now facing heavy fines if they publish content the Kremlin disapproves of. It's a thin wedge.

Of course, Trump enjoyed a better relationship. There are very, very big questions, though, as to why that was. You are an apologist for that relationship. I am not. You don't cosy up to someone like Putin, who will knife you in the back whilst smiling and shaking your other hand.

Keeping Russia at arms length and disrupting their attempts at influencing opinion in the USA and the west generally is vital. It's been allowed to grow far too much and is the primary reason for the divide in the USA being made ever wider. Putin saw it as a way to weaken the USA and has rigorously exploited it.

That some in the USA allow themselves to be used in this way, is shameful. That others just follow because they believe in the crap is unfortunate. That you refuse to see it, is astonishing.

The way you dismiss Trump's undoubted connections with, and acceptance of support from, Putin, is strong evidence that you too have been taken in by the cyberwar, and are one of the "willing idiots" Putin relies on to carry his swords. For war, it is, no matter how much you deny it.

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