by Tom Slater, spiked
The Greens’ stunning by-election victory reveals a fraying nation.
So the race everyone said was too close to call wasn’t so close after all. The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election with 14,980 votes, nearly 41 per cent of all those cast in the Greater Manchester seat. Meanwhile, Reform UK has pushed a flailing Labour Party into third place, taking 10,578 votes to Labour’s 9,364. That noise you can hear in the background is blood vessels bursting in Downing Street.
[…] This is a stunning win for the Greens. No one can take that away from them. But the manner in which they won bodes ill not just for Labour, but for our fractious nation, too. Spencer effectively rode Britain’s crisis of integration to victory – campaigning on Gaza, TikToking in Urdu and leaning into the Islamic sectarianism that has metastasised since October 7. It proved a potent combination in the inner-city wards, where as much as 40 per cent of residents are Muslim. Rather than appeal to voters on the basis of shared interests and a shared civic identity, the Greens didn’t even assume their voters spoke the same language. The Muslim Vote group endorsed them. George ‘Gaza’ Galloway stood down his Workers Party to give the Greens a clear run. In the future, we can expect more and more elections to come down to this depressing demographic headcount.
The Green Party has been shameless in ginning up anti-Israel grievances, even before Polanski hypnotised the membership. At the last election, 20 of its candidates were exposed in the press over their pondscum Israelophobia. One of them praised a ‘pro-Palestine’ march that disrupted a Holocaust remembrance march… at Auschwitz. Naturally, he was also the party’s diversity coordinator. Mothin Ali, the Greens’ new co-deputy leader, fond of chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’, posted a video on 8 October 2023, the day after Hamas’s pogrom in southern Israel, saying ‘Palestinians have the right to resist occupying forces’. The Greens are now Britain’s preeminent Islamo-left party, the party of choice for those who think Labour isn’t Jew-baity enough.
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