Don’t You Mean David Paulden‘s Greens, George?

After all, if it's good enough for Tommy Robinson, why should he be treated any differently?

There’s an obvious way to destroy Nigel Farage’s political momentum. A poll by the research group Persuasion UK, testing various messages, found that by far the most effective line of attack is highlighting his complicity with corporate interests. The message that hit hardest was that Farage’s real loyalties lie with “the rich, the powerful, his mates in big business”, and his “party” (actually a business called Reform 2025 Ltd) “has taken over £2m from fossil fuel lobbyists, polluters, and climate change deniers … He’s not smashing the system. He and his rich friends basically are the system.”

Anyone who accepts this 'argument' must be considered to be someone who hasn't really given any serious thought to the matter. Wouldn't Labour be using it as an attack, would be the first question?

But this is a string Labour cannot yank, as it would pull its own roof down. If there is a defining mark of Keir Starmer’s administration, it is immediate capitulation to powerful lobby groups, especially corporations and billionaires.

Ah, silly me. I forgot this missive came from the man in thrall to the Red Wing of the Labour movement. 

It cannot tell us that the role of the hard right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful on to powerless people who have only just arrived here. This would mean mentioning capital, wealth and power: topics it avoids like the plague. In other words, the government has flunked the simplest test for a Labour administration: how to respond to an insurgent hard right.

Are this 'hard right' in the room with you right now, George? 

People who approve of Farage will vote for him, emboldened by a Labour party that has told them, in effect, that he is right. People who hate Farage will vote not only against him, but also against a government seen to be handing the country on a plate to him. Unless its MPs rebel and defenestrate Starmer and Rachel Reeves, it is hard to see any trajectory for Labour now, other than electoral wipeout.

Well, give them time, they are surely working their way up to it...