Whenever "Tommy Robinson" appears in the meejah it is customary to add "whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon". But somehow it never seems necessary to add "real name David Paulden" to mentions of that remarkable political chameleon and all-round showman "Zack Polanski".
Part of this is to do with the meejah's unfailing instinct to be ultra-hesitant when contemplating a hatchet job on a new, rising political star who might one day hold the reins of power; and who even in the shorter term might not be willing to grant interviews etc if they are treated unkindly. Well, Zach certainly qualified for this auto-deference all through his meteoric rise to prominence last year. So of course did Kier Starmer, on an industrial scale, all through 2022-24. Even Farage still gets a bit of auto-deference, and there's nothing new-fangled about him - just his remarkable lead in the polls.
But all these happy honeymoons come to an end. Starmer was rapidly turned on with a combination of fury and glee by even the 'left/liberal' meejah: they knew they'd been duped, and he wasn't long in office before he presented them with plenty of pretext.
And surely, "Polanski" has it coming soon - even when the Greens do well this week.
Because he's quite clearly a ... real piece of work, as well as being as slippery as a greased eel. The Economist recently did a neat, gentle, but highly pointed mini-hatchet job on his being an "ego-surfing" social media narcissist-obsessive, and extremely thin-skinned and vengeful with it. Have a read - there's lots going on beneath the surface there. Clearly plenty in the meejah have got his number and are just waiting.
And there have been other straws in the wind. A while back he did a podcast with the Rest is Politics team where they bounced him with a totally legitimate question on which economists guide his thinking on financial policy. Clearly caught out, he blustered ineffectually - pretty damning for the leader of a would-be major party. Afterwards, Rory Stewart let it be known that in the post-interview wrap-up, "Polanski" rounded on them and said (my recollection here) something to the effect of "Hey, why didn't you tell me you were going to ask that? You know I'm just a showman: I'd have boned up on it it you'd told me".
Is anyone surprised?
And for all his breezy hyper-adroitness on the stump, he's relentlessly digging holes for himself, presumably based on that thin-skinned egoism which seems to come with a strong aversion for being seen to back down. He's lied about, but not totally resiled from, his "bust-boosting hypnotism" past. And note the "not happy about unarmed coppers kicking murderous knifeman" episode of last week: he's crafted a clever-clever faux-apology but is clearly intending to maintain and even pursue the substance of his intervention.
I think we know which of his constituencies he reckons this is a dog-whistle for (with May 7 just around the corner): but he ain't gonna get far with this line of sectarian adventurism before some hefty pushback.
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"unarmed coppers kicking murderous knifeman" Yeah, they should just have hypnotised him.
I think I'll use "real name Jerk Hypnotitz".
Or in pearl-clutching company "Zack Palooka" would do.
Trevor Phillips had by the goolies in his interview yesterday.
Anyone watching the incident on social media who has ever had to do anything heavyweight (I'm talking Armed Forces, Emergency Services etc.) will recognise the utterly terrifying circumstances here. The fact he had a kick belies the fact that had armed cops been there, he is quite likely to have been riddled. Good on the MetPol Commissioner for standing up to the buffoonery from the Armchair Generals.
I can just imagine what the Guardian and BBC would have made of media referring to Robert Maxwell MP "whose real name is Jan Ludwig Hoch".
I'm beginning to think Hypnotits is either an intelligence asset, or Farage's paid agent. He appears to be doing a very good job of a) completely discrediting the Greens (they've spent 40 years creating a 'We're nice people who want to save the planet' image, and he's wiped that out inside 12 months) , b) exposing who on the Left are openly anti-semitic racists, c) making Nigel Farage look like a centrist dad by comparison, and d) driving wavering voters to the right. If he's not Reform's Manchurian candidate, he's doing a great job of behaving like one. If he didn't exist Reform would have to create him.
A lost Only Fools episode...
' Ere Rodders, reckon we get you in the in, ah, politics game, them Greens, they're doing well, bit poncy, but reckon their leadership is ripe for a foie de gras.
He seems to be finding his accusations that holding him, and his ropier candidates, is all just the billionaire, right-wing media, types Out To Get Him not sticking. Trying to sell his own brand of organic bullshit to people who know how to mass market it, probably not the smartest move.
OT, I see Operation Freedom has ran its course, freeing a whole one vessel, and possibly knocking a rounding error of Iran's fast boats out of commission across the 50 hour lifetime.
I look forward to Amazon throwing money at Argo 2: Trump to the Rescue in celebration.
And now we're back to Trump handing over a wishlist to the Nutters, and seeing if they'll relent.
THankfully there are no elections round here.
I feel Confucious had it right - things are not called by their truthful names. The actualite avoided like the plague. I used to think politicians were just useless. Alas that is their ruse, they are very competent and useful - at serving their own lobby groups and funding sources and kowtowing to screamers. Democracy is a side show and probably never was the main event.
Not surprising so much fuss about Polanski, both Labour and Tory parties have studiously avoided upsetting the planning lobby, the bankers, the big builders, private capital and the off shorers. Polanski and Labour etc will find out the planning lobby, the bankers etc etc still own the system on Friday morning. If he gets any seats at all he will find a full and frank meeting will put him on the right path.
Jim - yes, that's generally the way with the big macro areas of policy. No, PM, you can't do that, because ... (list of 'Economic Deep State' reasons)
The trouble is, they then run riot on the things they can do by the stroke of a pen - in "Polanski's" case, opening the doors to boat people + "trans rights" + Scottish Inde + leaving NATO + unilateral nuke disarmament + other radical-woke nonsense** - which can all be equally damaging in the long run, but has no Economic Deep State counter-response
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** plus, as I often point out, foreign policy stuff which is truly stroke-of-the-pen / a few words over a conference table
The Times seems to be suggesting that Mr Palooka might be in trouble over Council Tax. Did you ever?
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