Imagine if Matt Goodwin had given an interview to a media outlet that regularly platforms far-right agitators like Nick Griffin. Imagine if he’d been pictured dancing next to a man who once called a Jewish rabbi a ‘kind of animal’. Imagine if he had made a campaign video trying to tap into the animus that certain white-skinned bigots feel towards India and her people.

The media’s failure to grapple with the iffy worldview of the modern Greens is deeply worrying

The media’s failure to grapple with the iffy worldview of the modern Greens is deeply worrying

We would never have heard the end of it. It would have been on the front page of the Guardian every day. The left would be hoarse from hollering ‘Fascist!’ at him. And yet Gorton and Denton’s new MP, who did do all that stuff, has had a free pass. In fact she’s being giddily hailed as a hero of the bourgeois left.

Hannah Spencer gave an interview to 5Pillars, the Taliban-sympathetic media outlet that regularly hosts cosy chats with Griffin about the global poison of Zionism. Ms Spencer bopped awkwardly alongside her party’s deputy leader – Mothin Ali – who once called a Leeds-based rabbi who had served in the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) ‘a kind of animal’.

And it was Ms Spencer’s party that put out a dog-whistlin’........

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