More on That Alliance

May 1, 2017 Longrider General News, misanthropy, Political 8

Zoe Williams is also campaigning for an alliance of the dark forces of progressivism.

Labour, Greens, Liberal Democrats, SNP, SDLP, the Women’s Equality party, all of these are on the same path. Those of us who bounce between them, sometimes joining, sometimes lapsing, are on the same path.

Quite apart from the cynical mistrust of the electorate I mentioned yesterday, this is the problem. Zoe’s rose-tinted spectacles see everyone on the left as being happy allies, whereas in reality they are ferrets in a sack. In the days when I supported Labour, I deserted them because they were taken over by Militant Tendency and I was of the centre left, not the lunatic fringe, so I switched to the LibDems. Had an alliance of the unholy proffered me one candidate from, say, the Greens or Labour, I would not have voted for them, for precisely the reasons I had deserted Labour – I was not of, and would never have supported, the lunatic fringes and would never have voted for such a candidate; just as likely LibDem voters today will be horrified by Momentum and the loony Greens. To believe that the whole of the left is one homogeneous mass driven only by their common dislike of the Tories is enough to hold an alliance together is delusional. Ain’t gonna happen. Fortunately.

That said, as they are the dark side, I’ll be content enough to watch them all implode…

8 Comments

  1. I would suggest that the greens are even more extreme and dangerous than even those who are so far left that they are basically communists. The greens combine wide eyed idealism with a complete ignorance about how stuff works. the latest wheeze to save the planet is to supply some 120,000 houses with hydrogen instead of natural gas. The hydrogen can be produced using ‘green’ electricity and piped into people’s homes at an eye watering cost. It would of course be far more efficient to use the electricity in the normal way and heat stuff up with it instead of using gas. Better still just use natural gas. If these idiots got their hands on the levers of power, within a very short time absolutely nothing would work.

    • And that’s the point with this alliance idea. Quite apart from being contemptible in their desire to manipulate the voters, a LibDem voter is likely to dislike the Greens with the same vigour that they dislike the Tories.

    • The hydrogen can be produced using ‘green’ electricity and piped into people’s homes at an eye watering cost.

      Quite apart from its volatility, there is the cost and difficulty of production. Presumably these loons would like to harness perpetual motion.

  2. All this ” on the same path” stuff sounds dangerously religious cultish to me.Let not facts get in the way. Ah well, there’s a seeker born every minute, as PT Barnam almost said.

  3. Certainly in this country those on the left join together to disagree while those on the right join together to agree. Neither arrangement is perfect but for the left the only thing that they have in common is that they want ‘change’ but if they get into power they then find that the different factions want change in different directions.
    Perhaps on the right they want things to stay the same but the different factions there might not agree which things those are?
    The left want to burn down the cricket club but one lot want to build a mosque and the other lot a bingo hall. The right want to keep the cricket club but disagree about one day versus three day games.

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