Just as Jim Anderton’s New Labour became a magnet for the lunatic fringe who couldn’t make headway with their notions in existing far left groups, the Green Party subsumed them with the departure of former sensible leaders like Rod Donald. Their blatant hypocrisy is one thing, you expect that from Leftists, but criminality is another.
by Dieuwe de Boer in the BFD
Prior to the shoplifting allegations that led to her resignation, I’d almost forgotten about Golriz Ghahraman. Looking back over my writing from late 2016 to now, the last time I wrote about her directly was in 2017 and the last time I mentioned her in passing was late 2019. I wrote then “it’s the coverup that gets you” and her weakness as a “manufactured candidate”. This article makes it a trifecta in covering the fall of Golriz Ghahraman. She spent two terms as a Green MP while the party supported Labour in government. She achieved nothing, with two failed attempts at passing a bill to lower the threshold to enter parliament, allow prisoners to vote, lower the voting age and lower the cap for political donations.
Back in 2017 she was a manufactured candidate with a CV that didn’t hold up to scrutiny. She allowed embellishments about her life to be spread and even had her colleagues defend her publicly before it was shown she had gotten rather chummy with the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide and even co-authored a paper that downplayed it. It’s no surprise most of her colleagues were tight-lipped when the shoplifting allegations started to swirl. I think my prediction then that her inability to portray her life truthfully would cripple her effectiveness over the parliamentary term were right, but I definitely didn’t see such a spectacular demise coming.
If you can’t get away with a bit of CV embellishment, you really shouldn’t try your luck with shoplifting.
There’s always a small risk that the Greens will replace her with someone more competent, but their ability to attract talent has declined significantly since they became a magnet for lazy communists. Compare her to the one colleague that came to her defence: Ricardo “be gay, do crime” Menendez. He’s similarly devoid of talent, but fits the archetype to do well with Green party members. To adapt the immortal words of President Donald Trump: neither the Iranians nor the Mexicans are sending us their best.