Slashing The Dinghy

I have known Jonathan Ashworth for 29 years, but whenever he is on television, then I wonder where Shockat Adam is. And I am no supporter of the Green Party, but whenever Matt Goodwin is on television, then I wonder where Hannah Spencer is.

The Liberal Democrats are now pitching to disgruntled Greens. Until the point of defection, each of those would at least have pretended to believe that Zack Polanski ought to be Prime Minister. Polanski has never been a spokesman for the British Red Cross, he has never been a spokesman for Make Votes Matter, he has never been a full member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy, and he has never worked for the nonexistent “justice assessment committee” of the Ministry of Justice. But he did fail to pay Council Tax on his narrowboat despite having been registered to vote there, he did fail to register to vote anywhere in the local elections this year, and he did take payment to hypnotise women so that their breasts would grow bigger.

The Greens are the British party for which Noam Chomsky would vote, so taking in their refugees formally admits to the Epstein Class the Lib Dems who were the more pro-austerity and pro-war party to the Coalition when Polanski stood as a Lib Dem for the Camden Borough Council seat of St Pancras and Somers Town, in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency that he recently failed to win as a Green. Polanski had joined the Lib Dems during the Coalition, but they now provide a happy home to Greens for whom even he was too left-wing.

Meanwhile, with deep reactionary roots, the Greens are a party of anti-industrial Malthusianism and misanthropy, and therefore of NATO and the EU, of their war in Ukraine, of the conscription to which that was leading inexorably, of Scottish and Welsh separatism, of gender self-identification, of drug legalisation, of licensed prostitution, and of Peter Tatchell. So yes, interchangeable with the Lib Dems, then.

The Green Party was all of those things on the day before its recent conference, yet just as the Old Greens are not making a fuss about its hugely significant abandonment of its opposition to nuclear power, so there was no talk of a firewall until it passed a resolution stating the view of most of the relatively few people in Britain who had much of an opinion on Zionism. Polanski was defeated at Holborn and St Pancras because he was as described above, not because of that resolution.

But how does that resolution look now, anyway? Israel was not an apartheid state because the Arabs were “allowed” vote, but they barely did, so that once they did in such numbers at to end up with the potential balance of power, then that must have been because of the kind of foreign interference that the implacable opponents of Brexit or of Donald Trump were wont to allege? And Zionism required no inclusion of the Arab-led parties in government no matter how well they had done, even if that required further elections, quite possibly on a more restricted franchise, or with a higher threshold, or with the Arab-led parties banned, or with all of those measures? If that is not racism, then what is it? And if that is not racism, then what is?

Speaking of racism, Daniel Thomas has pleaded guilty so that his sentence will be reduced, with his time on remand also taken into account, because the Crown Prosecution Service had been too frightened of my fellow obese middle-aged men to charge him with attempted murder. That Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was able to become involved in a brawl at a boxing match in Kilkenny demonstrated that, with a very long and serious criminal record, he had been permitted to leave the country while on bail awaiting sentence, again out of physical fear of his supporters. How and why does Nathan Cofnas still hold a United Kingdom visa? And how long can anything be imminent, as the report into Nigel Farage’s five million pounds has been for as long as some of us can still be bothered to bring ourselves to remember?