Peak Polanski in the rear-view mirror

On Monday I called Peak Green and by now, the by-election lost, it looks almost like we’re going to see a re-run of Your Party: hundreds of thousands of members but so dysfunctional, and split so comprehensively, it ain’t going anywhere.  

One need have no sympathies whatever for the charlatan “Polanski”: but the MSM pile-on is really quite extreme, and merits a moment’s analysis.  I have to believe the London-based, Labour-supporting meejah classes saw him as a genuine threat on the left; the Israel lobby saw him simply as a threat (the Auld Alliance back in action again); and they have both decided to bury him here and now, Corbyn-style.  He provided the shovels, and by last weekend had already dug his own grave.  It’s not a pretty sight.

Does he really deserve all this?  “Deserve“, as Clint Eastwood’s William Munny famously said in Unforgiven “got nothing to do with it“.  Live by the entryist surge, die by the care-nothing entryists’ toxic baggage.  Can’t imagine he’ll go down without a lot more of his trademark motormouth interviews, but we’ll just have to put up with it for a while.

Funnily enough, neither of the Green factions really care about becoming a major Parliamentary force.  The traditional sandal-wearing Greens were happy with one MP, delirious with 4.  They don’t much mind going back to their eco-protest roots in Bristol, Brighton and the shires, if becoming Big means they must accommodate the ‘progressive’ dregs of bedsit London Labour by the tens of thousand.  Likewise, the dregs care not for Parliamentary success if it means they must give up their fevered foreign policy fantasies.  Those who do care are a smaller, strategically-minded metropolitan motley of fence-sitters whose relatively sophisticated dream is of plain-speaking Polanski fearlessly shifting the Overton window decisively leftwards, in a way that no Labour politician is able to.  Then Burnham and his genuine party-of-government can safely occupy the newly-liberated ground and win an election on terms they like.

Well let’s see if this strategy is gaining any traction.  The Budget looms, and there are a lot more issues making calls on the public purse than to leave much left for the big causes progressives are interested in. 

ND