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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Melanie Phillips: Chickens coming home to roost


The Greens' by-election victory signifies a cultural and political emergency for Britain

Britain has woken up to a victory by the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election. The Greens’ Hannah Spencer, a 34 year-old plumber, now becomes the Member of Parliament for the constituency which has been Labour since 1931. Labour was pushed into third place with Reform coming second.

There are claims that this election was corrupted by Muslims voting many times as families. Whether or not this charge of mass illegality turns out to be true, it’s clear that Muslims and disenchanted Labour supporters voted for the Greens as the party that unequivocally works for the destruction of Israel, and promises the kind of ludicrous, nihilistic, anti-western, left-wing agenda that accords with the total destruction of patriotism, knowledge and reason among young people.

The Green candidate in Gorton and Denton was photographed wearing a keffiyeh, and fronted a video produced entirely in Urdu which included shots of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and India’s prime minister Narendra Modi meeting Labour politicians —smearing all of them as villains to chill the blood in the cartoon nightmare of the Greens’ political pitch.

Britain is now facing a red/black/green alliance — the left, the Muslims and the revolutionary, west-hating, Zionophobic Greens — versus Reform and the Conservatives, who are trying to destroy each other and thus risk wiping out in the process the defence of Britain and the west. It’s what might reasonably be thought a cultural and political emergency — otherwise known as chickens coming home to roost with a bang.

I have warned about this anti-west alliance for years. In my 2010 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power, I devoted an entire chapter to “The Red-Black-Green-Islamic Axis”. “Black” in this case is the fascists, who have always been joined at the hip to the left and who today have become indistinguishable from them in a number of respects. These neo-fascists have emerged in America on the Tucker Carlson wing of the MAGA movement.

Because this chapter sheds considerable light on what has now emerged in Britain, and explains that the apparently baffling alliance between Islamists and “progressive” Greens and leftists is not an attraction of opposites but the expression of their common roots and shared goals, I reproduce an edited extract here.

The Red-Black-Green-Islamic Axis

One reason why people find it so difficult to acknowledge the resurgence of antisemitism in the west is that hatred of Jews is associated with ‘the far right’. Those who are deeply hostile to Israel are often also deeply hostile to the ‘far right’. They believe that this stands for obscurantism, irrationality, prejudice, a backward-looking attitude to a golden age in the past that never was. The left, by contrast in their view, stands for enlightenment and progress, liberalism, reason and modernity.

Thus those left-wingers and liberals who march against Israel and America, promote the green agenda and raise the standard of atheistic reason against religious superstition think of themselves as left-wing, progressive and enlightened. Their Manichean approach means they define themselves in large measure by what they are not.

So the left portrays itself historically as heroic fighters against fascism. Except it’s not as simple as that. Indeed, this division is itself ignorant, ahistorical and unsustainable.

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author - you can follow her work on her website HERE

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Judaism is 4000 years old. Thousands of years later, envious religion-makers have visions or find golden plates or hear voices....

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