The UK Green Party is known for a lot of things, few of them good. There’s much about the Greens that invite riducule such as their economic policies and its open borders obsession. There are also other things about the Greens which just cause people to turn their noses up in disgust, as was the case with the Aimee Challoner scandal where a transgender star of the party employed her violent paedophile father as her agent.
However the Green Party seem to be descending further into madness with some of the statements by the current Diversity and Equality coordinator, Rashid Nix. It seems that he’s been caught out expressing support for arch conspiraloon David Icke and Ickes equally lunatic, but lucrative for Icke, ideas.
The self described pluralistic left wing outlet Left Foot Forward is publicising and running with the story of Nix’s descent into conspiralunacy. Left Foot Forward are gleefully pointing out how even now the shade of Icke, who was once closely associated with the Green Party’s political predecessor the Ecology Party, is continuing to damage the Greens. Those of you with longer political memories than some will recall how the Ecology Party’s public association with Icke when Icke went off the rails and started describing himself as the ‘godhead’, killed any credibility that the party may once have had or aspired to. Below is part of the Left Foot Forward article on Nix and the nutjobs. As is usual policy for this blog the original text from Left Foot Forward is in italics whereas my comments are in plain text.
Left Foot Forward said:
An elected member of the Green Party’s executive committee has shared an interview with notorious conspiracy theoriest David Icke.
Rashid Nix, the party’s equality and diversity co-ordinator, tweeted the video with the caption “interesting views”.
In this video, Icke suggested that the 2012 Hollywood film Contagion was produced to put the idea of a global pandemic into the public’s imagination.
I’m not sure which is the more disturbing about this story, whether it be the fact that Nix is promoting an idea that is complete bollocks and which fails the Occam’s Razor test or that fact that he was elected by Green Party members. In the first instance, Icke has promoted a failed idea that the Contagion movie was part of some vast conspiracy to ‘soften up’ the public for a global pandemic. This is because the vast majority of those with any interest in the world are fully aware that pandemics exist, pandemics such as the 1918 Flu, 1957 Asian Flu, and the 1968/69 Hong Kong Flu. There’s no need to make softening up propaganda for the public as the public are already aware of the reality of pandemics. If you ask someone on the mythical Clapham Omnibus to name a deadly world wide disease outbreak they would probably say ‘the Black Death’ and rightly so. The second instance, that the Greens membership voted for this nutter then it says a damn lot about the intellectual character of the Green Party’s membership.
Left Foot Forward added:
Icke also claimed it was not a coincidence that Iran seemed to have a stronger strain of coronavirus which was killing its leaders, given Iran is an enemy of the USA and Europe.
Iran is suffering from the same virus as all other nations and the USA now has the most coronavirus cases.
That is correct, there’s no superstrain of Covid19 in Iran deliberately put there, it’s just that Iran is ruled by an awful government who lies to their people, has close ties to China and didn’t seem to want to see the danger from Chinese Covid19.
Icke has previously claimed that the royal family and world leaders are lizards and has been accused of anti-semitism for promoting the ‘Protocols of Zion’ conspiracy theory.
Some say that it is Icke’s insistence on the various flavours of ‘lizard shit’ that he puts out which discredits him in other areas. I disagree. It doesn’t take much digging to show that Icke is discreditable in many other areas as well. The only thing that David Icke is good at and correct about is the best way to promote David Icke himself.
An hour before Nix’s tweet about David Icke, he tweeted a photo of what looks like a 5G phone mast with the caption “nuff said!”.
So not only is Nix OK with the various debunkable Covid19 conspiracy theories, he’s also shown himself to be a 5G conspiraloon and therefore ignorant of physics, the structure and effects of the electromagnetic spectrum and even Newton’s Inverse Square Law. What a science and knowledge free loon.
The Left Foot Forward article goes on to explain that Nix’s nutjobbery has upset some members of the Green Party, one said that it brought back the damage that Icke did to the party in its former incarnation and another accused Nix of promoting ‘snake oil, lizard conspiracy theory bollocks.’ What we should bear in mind here is that Nix is not just some ordinary member of the Green Party with no influence, he occupies a management position within the party and that should tell potential voters just how out of touch with reality the Green Party has become.
I may not share the politics of Left Foot Forward but I commend them for a really good bit of investigative reporting by exposing the sort of nutters who now run the Greens. They have become the ‘Fraggle Farm ‘ of British politics and should be treated as such by normal voters with more than half a brain.
