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 today’s Greens: unutterable inanity. Stupidity so advanced that it is hard to credit. It is personified by both the leader, Zack Polanski – and even more so, the party’s newest MP, Milly Molly Mandy with a monkey wrench, Hannah Spencer.
Spencer represents a party which sees no harm in legalising Class A drugs, but cavils at alcohol
Of all of them, Spencer really is a grade A gibbering moron. Asked why the Manchester Arena bombing took place, she said to her interlocutor Matt Goodwin: ‘People like you are dividing people.’ I suspect she probably is cretinous – and wicked – enough to believe that statement.
This week she has divested herself of a worry that MPs drink too much. She said:
I’m really uneasy about – and I noticed this the other day – when you can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes… as everyone’s going in to vote, some people have been drinking.
I’m sorry Spencer doesn’t like the smell. I suspect her fellow MPs aren’t too keen on the stench of semi-digested kale which emanates from the woman, either, but we have to put these minor inconveniences aside. She represents a party which sees no harm in legalising Class A drugs, but cavils at alcohol. And she does so because alcohol is enjoyed largely by people who don’t like the Greens. It is alcohol as a signifier which annoys her, not the state of being incapacitated by it.
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