Joseph Dinnage has a topical CAPX piece on Zack Polanski. Worth reading, but if voters can't see through Polanski, there isn't much to hope for.
How to beat Zack Polanski
The Green Party’s victory in last week’s Gorton and Denton by-election was a grim indicator of where British politics could be heading. With 40% of the vote, Hannah Spencer won her campaign by stirring the pot of local sectarianism; releasing campaign videos in Urdu and Bengali, accusing the Government of funding ‘genocide’ in Gaza, and – most absurdly – claiming that ‘people like’ the Reform UK candidate Matthew Goodwin caused the Manchester arena bombing by ‘dividing people’.
You’ll notice that none of these strategies have anything to do with the environment. Under Zack Polanski’s leadership, the Greens have shifted from environmentalism to what French conservatives have termed Islamo-gauchisme – a fusion of traditional Leftism with the imported communal grievances of a growing Muslim population. Polanski has branded this the politics of ‘hope’, but of course this menacing ideology of economic self-destruction and social division is nothing of the sort.
- Like the pied piper of economic ruin, Zack Polanski is leading young people to misery
- The British Right must learn from the Canadian Conservatives' success with young voters
- You can’t blame the young for feeling sufficiently disenchanted to vote for a man nicknamed ‘hypnotits’
The Green Party’s victory in last week’s Gorton and Denton by-election was a grim indicator of where British politics could be heading. With 40% of the vote, Hannah Spencer won her campaign by stirring the pot of local sectarianism; releasing campaign videos in Urdu and Bengali, accusing the Government of funding ‘genocide’ in Gaza, and – most absurdly – claiming that ‘people like’ the Reform UK candidate Matthew Goodwin caused the Manchester arena bombing by ‘dividing people’.
You’ll notice that none of these strategies have anything to do with the environment. Under Zack Polanski’s leadership, the Greens have shifted from environmentalism to what French conservatives have termed Islamo-gauchisme – a fusion of traditional Leftism with the imported communal grievances of a growing Muslim population. Polanski has branded this the politics of ‘hope’, but of course this menacing ideology of economic self-destruction and social division is nothing of the sort.
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Could some, at least of Polanski’s by-election success be attributed to the fact that the colour green is widely associated with Islam and is the colour of Islamic political parties in Bangladesh and Pakistan? (Environmentalists in the latter use a combination of green and yellow to avoid confusion.)
Combined with the common assertion that familial and relisions duty requires Muslims to vote primarily for the advancement of Islam and the situation could have been tailor-made for the promotion of ‘Islamo-gauchisme’; so much so that it almost seems beyond the possibility of mere coincidence.
As for the young, I suspect that much of this is the currently fashionable mating dance to impress the opposite sex, supercharged by the performative potential of social media; like Orca wearing ‘salmon hats’, these things tend to go in cycles and it may be that Canada is currently a few steps ahead of us.
Macheath - I'm sure you are right about the colour green. As well as the association with Islam there is a wider and more diffuse but very familiar association with the attractions of the natural world. Symbols matter in political marketing.
Greens do seem to have a fashion edge as concern for the environment is never quite unfashionable, but as you say, these things tend to go in cycles. Ascetic Green eccentricity could become politically unfashionable in a world of virtual reality, AI, social media and the possibilities of individualism. Or not - there is madness out there too.
Defeating Zack Polanski is a worthy aim, but the bigger target must be the Labour Government (also put into power by the inherent weaknesses of the 'two party' electoral system).
DJ - I agree, we still have a long way to go before the next general election.
I think people are over reacting to the Green success at Gtn & Dtn. The greens are a vocal minority who won't be able to reproduce the conditions in many constituencies. Opposing them, will be millions of voters desperate to be rid of the left - in all its forms.
Tammly - I hope you are right and the JSO stunts remind voters that Greens shouldn't be taken seriously either.
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