It is no exaggeration to describe today’s local elections as the most important of their kind ever held in this country.
Everything suggests the results will shape the political narrative well into the future. Come the weekend, we could be heading into a very different Britain. The very least we should be braced for is a sharp move to the Left by the current Labour administration, now predicted to lose up to 2,000 seats.
But an even worse scenario awaits us if the Greens end up in power as part of a Left-wing coalition of chaos after the next general election, which looks increasingly likely to happen far ahead of its 2029 schedule.
The Daily Mail has been warning for months of the very serious threat posed by Zack Polanski and his starry-eyed acolytes. It is almost impossible to reconcile today’s Palestine-obsessed, too-often Jew-hating Greens with the fluffy collective of yesteryear dedicated to saving the whale.
The party’s policies appear to be plucked from a Ladybird-style primer on the very worst elements of Marxist idiocy. Among its aspirations are the abolition of the monarchy, making pornography more easily available and legalising substances such as heroin, crack cocaine and the date-rape drug GHB.
Plans for the nation’s finances are equally unhinged. Polanski wants to introduce wealth taxes, which would presumably go towards funding the free housing he intends giving to illegal migrants.
At a time of unprecedented global peril, the Greens want to downgrade our defence capabilities to even lower levels than are currently the case. Their other stated aims include phasing out short-term custodial sentences with the ultimate goal of putting an end to the existing prison system.
Meanwhile, Polanski’s contempt for law and order can be seen in his repeated attempts to goad the Metropolitan Police over its response to the recent knife attacks in Golders Green in north London.
The Daily Mail has long warned of the very serious threat posed by Zack Polanski and his Palestine-obsessed, too-often Jew-hating starry-eyed acolytes
But it is the seething undercurrent of anti-Semitism raging through the party that is the most disturbing aspect of all. The Mail revealed this week that 30 of its local election candidates are being investigated for alleged hatred and abuse towards Jews.
Even against that troubling backdrop, an influx of mainly young members has seen the party’s numbers swell from 68,000 to around 225,000 over the past six months. That in itself is an indictment of the failure by both Labour and the Tories to forge any meaningful relationship with the nation’s youth.
In today’s Mail, our 25-year-old writer Rosie Beveridge tells why she will be voting Green. Among her circle of friends, she writes, there is ‘an anxious air of exhaustion fuelled by being overworked, broke, single, directionless and – at the risk of sounding like a Jane Austen character – prospectless’.
The sense of disaffection is everywhere. For decades, each new generation has believed it would be better off than the last.
Not any more. Who among us could say, hand on heart, that things are better now than they were ten or twenty years ago?
Just look around and what do you see? Job prospects depressingly limited for even the brightest and the best. No end in sight to unfettered migration. The health service lurching from crisis to crisis. A bloated benefits culture that rewards people for sitting on the couch watching daytime television.
It is hardly surprising that young people are angry and disillusioned.
But Zack Polanski isn’t the answer. To anyone tempted to drift towards the Greens on the premise that things cannot get any worse, the Mail says: Just you wait and see.