They say you can never go home again, but if I think of my hometown of Bristol – and my adopted hometown of Brighton and Hove – the similarities are striking. The rise of the Green Party has much to do with this. When I was growing up in the beautiful, but quiet, West Country city in the 1960s and 1970s, I couldn’t wait to escape to somewhere buzzier. Well, they say be careful what you wish for. Now the two cities share ‘progressive’ politics of the most regressive kind; that distinctive Veruca-Salt-joins-the-Stasi brand which is obsessed with the evil of Israel and the transcendent wonder of ‘trans.’ Voters in Gorton and Denton who helped the Green party win its first by-election this week will come to regret what they’ve done.

The Greens have formed the ultimate coalition of the silly and the sinister

The Greens have formed the ultimate coalition of the silly and the sinister

It’s funny to think that Friends Of The Earth were once considered quite ‘out there’; the Greens, with their crazed support for Net Zero, sometimes appear to believe that the ideal lifestyle should be lived by candlelight, in a cave, cross-dressing, puffing on the crack-pipe and yelling ‘Allahu Akhbar!’ on a regular basis.

The recent alliance between the anything-goes Greens (led by the Jewish Zack Polanski, as he never fails to remind us so he can’t be accused of being anti-Semitic. Has he never heard of Karl Marx?) and hyper-reactionary Islamism, is one of those outlandish things which would have stood out like a sore thumb a decade ago, but now just seems like a natural part of the whole crazy paving that the modern world has been tarmacked over with. Gorton and Denton has a high Muslim population, so the triumph of the Greens does not come as a........

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