I think the best and most succinct description of the Green party was Tim Stanley’s ‘Stalin with a nose ring’. It gives a nod to the witless middle-class skankery of the party’s members and supporters but posits that there might be, underneath, a darker undercurrent. In these pages, meanwhile, Andrew Gilligan has documented many of those undercurrents: the bile-flecked, vicious anti-Semitism of various women who will very shortly become councillors.

Both Stanley and Gilligan are right, of course, so it falls to me to deal briefly with the third pillar of........

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