The left are doubling down, polarizing the country with their extremism. By Camilla Tominey at The Telegraph.
The phenomenal rise of Reform UK in the local elections has triggered predictable howls of outrage from Left-wing quarters. “Fascist!”, “far Right!”, all the usual slurs. After a campaign spent depicting Nigel Farage as Britain’s next Hitler, the snowflakes are now in full meltdown at the terrifying prospect that the electorate might actually elect a “Nazi” as prime minister.
The hysteria reveals far more about the critics than it does about Reform. Those with a rational grasp of UK politics understand the truth: Farage’s party, now replete with former Conservatives and careful to distinguish itself from a harder-Right outfit in Rupert Lowe’s Restore, represents the least of Britain’s problems. While the Left obsesses over phantom threats on the Right, genuine extremism is flourishing elsewhere, cloaked not in Union flags but in the sanctimonious green of virtue-signalling radicalism.
The Greens have eagerly become the face of Islamic-left facism:
The real danger lies squarely with Zack Polanski’s Green Party. They are not merely the new Corbynistas; they are something far worse — a toxic fusion of identity politics, foreign obsessions, and barely concealed sectarianism that now wields real power in local government. …
Polling indicates that the Greens are by far the most popular party among 18-24 year olds.
For anyone alarmed by the sharp rise in anti-Semitism since October 7, 2023, or concerned about Islamists infiltrating British institutions, these results should set off alarm bells. For ordinary voters who believe Britain is in trouble, with porous borders, failing public services, spiralling energy costs and a growing housing crisis; the Greens’ ascent is a code red.
Because despite the domestic challenges facing the nation, Polanski made it abundantly clear where his party’s priorities truly lie. These local elections, he implied, were never really about fixing Britain: “Palestine is one of the elements on the ballot”. For many Greens, this was effectively a referendum on Gaza …
The party didn’t hide its agenda. Demands have included an end to all arms sales to Israel, a ban on Israeli imports, and labelling the Jewish state an “apartheid” regime. While British families struggle with a cost of living crisis and lengthy NHS waiting lists, the Greens have been laser-focused on importing a Middle Eastern conflict into British local democracy.
Even more cynical was their electoral strategy. The party actively chooses candidates with little apparent interest in environmental issues purely to maximise votes in areas with high concentrations of Muslim voters. This is naked sectarianism dressed up as progressive politics. The Gorton and Denton by-election exemplified the approach, with Urdu-language leaflets flooding the streets. A bizarre campaign video that went viral captured the transformation perfectly: a group of Muslim men, notably no women present, parading a Green candidate riding a bicycle down the high street to the rhythmic strains of Qawwali music. This is no longer about cleaning up the rivers and the seas. It’s From The River to the Sea — and then some.
This pattern of takeover is not anecdotal. It is systemic. In Lambeth, the Greens fielded Sabine Mairey and Saiqa Ali, both of whom were later arrested for allegedly stirring up racial hatred online. One had shared content suggesting that an attack on a synagogue “isn’t anti-Semitism” but legitimate “revenge” for Israel’s actions. The other posted images of Hamas militants. …
For two decades the Left insisted that racism is whatever the self-defined victim says it is. Yet when it comes to Jewish communities reporting record levels of abuse and assault, Polanski pivots to claims that Jews are merely “perceiving” abuse rather than experiencing it. ...
These incidents, alongside many party members’ enthusiastic support for motions declaring “Zionism is racism”, provide concrete evidence of where the true hotbeds of radicalism fester in modern Britain. While Reform channels the legitimate frustrations of working-class and middle-class voters abandoned by the establishment, the Greens offer division and dangerous imported grievances. …
This is not simply about council seats or local planning disputes. It is about the soul of the nation: whether Britain remains a tolerant and functioning democracy or fragments further along sectarian lines.
The political class ignores this reality at its peril. Voters can see it clearly and are increasingly unwilling to accept the hypocrisy of those who cry “far Right” at patriots while platforming extremists in green clothing.
The ABC in Australia support the Greens. They moved on from the Labor Party a couple of decades ago, because they are not really virtuous enough. Labor no longer made them feel sufficiently special, not different to the hoi polloi. But really, how much further left can a party go while retaining some pretense of being able to govern a nation well? The British Greens have thrown caution to the wind and embraced antisemitism with gusto. Is this where the Australian Greens and the ABC are going?