Sam Lister dissects Green Party idiocy on Manchester Arena bombing (Image: Daily Express/Getty)
Nothing sums up the idiocy of the Left better than the claim that a Reform candidate was to blame for the Manchester Arena bombing. Suicide bomber Salman Abedi murdered 22 people, including eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos, when he targeted an Ariana Grande concert in 2017. His brother, Hashem Abedi, was jailed for a minimum of 55 years for helping to plan the atrocity and has since been charged with attempting to murder three prison officers.
The cowardly vile pair deliberately chose to spread terror and fear at a concert filled with joyful, innocent young children in their war on the West. Wannabe MP Hannah Spencer, however, did not blame the two men or their perverse Islamist ideology when asked why the attack happened. Instead, she pointed the finger at her Reform opponent in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwin.
In a BBC debate, Goodwin said there was a problem with some politicians failing to address why atrocities happen. Spencer replied: “What we did after the terror attacks was we came together and we stuck up for each other.”
Goodwin again countered: “But you have never asked why are those things happening. Why are they happening?” Spencer shot back: “Because people like you are dividing people.”
The Reform candidate later tweeted that being accused of causing the Manchester Evening News Arena terror bombing had been the “most surreal moment” of the campaign when the real reason was “radical Islamism”.
Closely fought by-elections can become very fraught as exhausted candidates slug it out day after day and tensions can boil over. But the spat reflects a much wider problem in the UK, an inability to speak calmly but frankly about divisive issues.
Spencer is standing for the Green Party, which is prone to ludicrous ideas that would turn Britain into a basket case if it ever got a whiff of power. It is considering legalising heroin and cocaine to make the country more inclusive just for starters. But the issue is about much more than bonkers Green policies.
The Left has been in the grip of the tyranny of so-called progressivism for decades. It is one of the worst afflictions of the 21st century. The fear of looking gauche because you do not have the correct views has forced people into positions that are not only ridiculous but are also dangerous. Islamist extremism is not Goodwin’s fault or the result of the actions of the people “like” him, whatever that is supposed to mean.
Green candidate Hannah Spencer ridiculously claimed Right was to blame for Islamic terror attack (Image: Anadolu via Getty)
We have a serious problem with people in positions of authority leaving ordinary citizens too scared to speak out for fear of being branded a bigot. The situation can have very real consequences. After the Goodwin Spencer skirmish, Conservative MP Neil O’Brien pointed out: “Security guard Kyle Lawler saw the bomber but said he did nothing because: ‘I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist’.”
Progressive extremism shuts down discussion and debate on issues where the argument cannot rationally be won. Rather than using logic to deal with an issue, its proponents use emotion, trotting out platitudes such as “be kind”.
It has left our country paralysed by a fear of saying the wrong thing rather than doing the wrong thing. This progressive extremism is behind the collective hysteria that swept through schools and left children believing they had been born into the wrong bodies.
Their normal childhood anxieties were turned into a new state of being, trans, that led to many being put on puberty blockers. Some went on to have life changing surgery that has left them sterile and in pain. Parents who went against their child’s decision to identify as a different gender were branded transphobes.
Women lost their jobs for simply saying that trans women are actually men. Those men were allowed to punch women in boxing matches, be placed in women’s jails even when they were convicted of sex offences, and use women’s changing rooms. Any sane adult must know that all of those things are not just fundamentally wrong, they are also incredibly dangerous.
So why do progressives pretend they cannot see what the rest of us can?
For so long, they have managed to set the terms of the debate, which is that there is no debate. But voters are fed up with being told they are wrong and are looking for politicians who can sensibly deal with uncomfortable truths.
The Left’s sinister attempt to control what the public say and do is finally being exposed for the nonsense it is.
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