Wealshim, the Greens, and the Zionism They Called Nazism, in Lewishambles.
A Not So Comedy Drama. London. The Green Party. Antisemitism. Written by John Langley for The Almighty Gob Blog.
[The heraldic crest of the London Borough of Wielsham, as featured in Wielsham, the Greens, and the Zionism They Called Nazism, in Lewishambles — published by The Almighty Gob, 2026.]
Zionism. Antisemitism. The Jewish community. Three terms that have become the most politically combustible in British public life. This is a story about all three. It is set in the London Borough of Wielsham. It begins, as so many things do in 2026, with the Green Party. So. To the script.
FADE IN:
INT. WIELSHAM LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL CHAMBER — DAY.
The chamber is exactly what you’d expect. Institutional carpet the colour of a bad decision. Fluorescent lighting that hasn’t been kind to anyone since 1987. A vending machine visible through the glass panel in the corridor. It has been broken since 2019. Nobody has reported it because nobody knows who to report it to anymore — that department was restructured. Presuming no one has heard of biodegradable snacks.
The public gallery contains four people. It’s considered a good day. Two of them are asleep. One is live-tweeting to eleven followers. The fourth is eating a Greggs sausage roll with the quiet dignity of someone who has given up everything, except comfort food. At times such as this.
The MAYOR OF WIELSHAM, E.A. HARVESTS (known to close personal friends as Eric), late 50s, the kind of man who describes himself as “passionate about people,” rises to address the chamber. He is wearing an open collar. This is intentional. It signals accessibility. And a collar size too small, to Eric. No one else knows. It’s fine. It’ll do for today.
HARVESTS: “Colleagues. We stand today at the threshold of a new Wielsham. A Wielsham that listens. A Wielsham that holds space. A Wielsham that — and I want to be very deliberate about this word — heals.“
Murmurs of approval from the GREEN COUNCILLORS. Several of them are nodding in the particular way that suggests they have attended at least one mindfulness retreat. Meanwhile. The sausage roll could be faintly heard, mildly choking the one eating it.
HARVESTS (CONT’D): “Which is why I am delighted to announce the abolition of the community safety portfolio —”
Even though there was a slight hesitation on hearing the word ‘abolition,’ the pause was clear. No one reacted. Community safety, apparently, had its time. The collective assumption being that anyone who gets in the way of an ebike delivery and gets knocked over will be insured anyway.
HARVESTS (CONT’D): “— and its replacement with the role of Cabinet Member for Communities, Sanctuary and Healing.”
Applause. Genuine applause. From adults. In a council chamber. Somewhere in London. Before that moment of, well, something between deflation, and sheer bewilderment.
The camera finds COUNCILLOR UMA HAUTY, 40s, Deputy Leader of the Wielsham Green Group.
She is wearing a Palestinian flag badge, a transgender pride badge, a Sudanese flag badge, an Iranian flag badge, and what appears to be a crystal.
Appears being the operative word. Available at most weekend markets. Authenticity, like so much else here, not guaranteed. Promised, even.
She rises to acknowledge the applause with the measured serenity of someone who has been expecting this moment and has already decided how she will receive it.
The sound of a gong, would have been so right. Spiritually speaking. And yet, so wrong.
For those unfamiliar with The Gong Show — it was a television programme in which acts were removed from the stage mid-performance for being, to put it diplomatically, not quite ready.
Anyway. The analogy will have to suffice. For now. At least.
She is, it should be noted, the Alf Garnett of the piece, who has absolutely no self awareness of this. Whatsoever.
HAUTY: “Thank you, Mayor. I want to begin by holding space for everyone in this chamber. For the seen and the unseen. For the heard and the unheard. For the —”
The man in the public gallery finishes his sausage roll, and, leaves somewhat hastily. Reasons unknown. Though noted.
INT. WIELSHAM COUNCIL CHAMBER — MOMENTS LATER.
Uma Hauty is at the podium. She has lit incense. The audience was incensed. Somehow, things got lost in translation for her.
HAUTY: “As your Cabinet Member for Communities, Sanctuary and Healing, my first act will be to commission a full aura assessment of the chamber itself. Buildings hold trauma. This building has held a great deal of trauma. Mostly from the planning committee, but trauma nonetheless. And, mostly, one assumes, from the very people employed there who may be black. More than likely Jewish.”
A SENIOR OFFICER leans to a COLLEAGUE. With the imminent discomfort of someone about to break thunderous, uncontrollable wind.
SENIOR OFFICER: (whispering) “What happened to community safety?”
COLLEAGUE: (whispering) “It wasn’t healing enough.”
SENIOR OFFICER: “Right.”
Beat.
COLLEAGUE: “Not healing enough.”
Beat.
SENIOR OFFICER: “Right. And, the bins?”
COLLEAGUE: “How does one heal a bin?”
SENIOR OFFICER: “Oh. That’s just rubbish.”
SENIOR OFFICER (CONT’D): “Here. Have you heard about the recent murder figures for the borough?”
COLLEAGUE: “Don’t know. I think they’re still working on new bin procurement. I’ll make a call after this meeting. Cemeteries will likely have an up to date figure.”
SENIOR OFFICER: “Oh. Any Blacks, Jews? She’ll more than likely ask.”
INT. WIELSHAM COUNCIL CHAMBER — LATER.
The debate has reached agenda item seven: chakra alignment policy for council staff.
Agenda item one had covered the aura assessment — an entirely different matter. The results, when they arrived, confirmed the chamber’s aura to be green. This was considered, on balance, preferable to red or blue. No one questioned the methodology.
Agenda item three had tabled an emergency motion. In Wielsham, an emergency motion took on an entirely different meaning. Particularly regarding toilet usage. This was not discussed. It was, however, felt.
Given the likely controversy, the renaming of the cleansing department to the ethnic cleansing department was, with good reason, probably never raised.
Any Other Business followed immediately. There was none. There was, however, a strong collective wish that there had been. Almost anything would have done.
HAUTY: “I want to be clear that the chakra alignment session is not mandatory. However staff who decline the session will be asked to reflect on why they are declining, and that reflection will be noted.”
The TWO SLEEPING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC continue to sleep. One of them is, if anything, more asleep than before. Possibly also waiting for a response from the cemeteries department.
Hauty produces a printed sheet. Appears to have been recycled paper. Last September’s laundry invoice. As far as anyone can make out.
HAUTY (CONT’D): “I also want to share something I posted recently that I feel speaks to the spirit of this new administration.”
She reads.
HAUTY (CONT’D): “Zionism is pure evil and must be abolished.”
A beat.
Another beat. Someone in the gallery can be heard calling for a first aid responder.
The live-tweeter stops live-tweeting.
HAUTY (CONT’D): “And this one, from six days later —”
“Zionism was undoubtedly and unquestionably the Nazism of our time.”
Silence. It was not considered a good time for anyone in the room to quip ‘Heil.’
HAUTY (CONT’D): “I feel these speak directly to our healing journey as a borough.”
The Senior Officer writes something on his notepad. He underlines it. He stares at it. He turns the notepad face down.
Beat.
SENIOR OFFICER: (to colleague, very quietly) “She’s on the school governors panel.”
COLLEAGUE: “Yes.”
SENIOR OFFICER: “And the Religious Education advisory board.”
COLLEAGUE: “Yes.”
Beat.
SENIOR OFFICER: “Does she know there are Jewish children in the schools?”
COLLEAGUE: “She’s aware of them.”
Beat.
SENIOR OFFICER: “Aware.”
COLLEAGUE: “She tolerates them.”
SENIOR OFFICER: “And, I thought it was only Specsavers I needed. Best check my hearing too.”
The Senior Officer picks up his notepad. Looks at what he wrote. Puts it in his pocket. Stands up. Leaves.
The vending machine in the corridor remains broken. Suddenly, the entire building also.
Uma Hauty still, holds space.
INT. WIELSHAM COUNCIL CHAMBER — CONTINUOUS.
E.A. Harvests brings the session to a close with the air of a man who has made his peace with something he cannot name. Doesn’t want to. Meltdown on his last day wasn’t something he had considered over breakfast that morning.
HARVESTS: “And on that note — and I think we can all agree it has been a profoundly healing session — I declare the first cabinet meeting of the new Wielsham administration closed. Uma, wonderful. Truly. Very — healing.”
The only lie he’d ever told in twenty five years of local politics. He considered that not having been to confession in recent weeks, now would be a good time to reconnect with his faith.
HAUTY: “Thank you, Eric.”
A flicker crosses Harvests’ face. Nobody calls him Eric.
HARVESTS: (quietly) “It’s E.A., actually.”
Hauty is already gone. She has a school to govern.
Thankfully, and you’ll no doubt be pleased to read that, this is not a comedy series script draft. However.
[The writer pauses.]
[Something is wrong.]
[Wielsham.]
[Say it again.]
[Wielsham.]
[That’s —]
[That’s an anagram of Lewisham.]
[And Uma Hauty —]
[That’s —]
[Oh.]
[Uma Hauty. An anagram. Of course.]
[THE SCRIPT ENDS HERE.]
A NOTE ON THE CENTRAL CHARACTER.
COUNCILLOR UMA HAUTY. Deputy Leader of the Wielsham Green Group. Cabinet Member for Communities, Sanctuary and Healing. School governor. Member of the borough’s Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education. Crystal wearer. Flag collector.
She is, for the record:
One — thinks of Jewish people as Nazis. Publicly. Unretracted.
Two — considers Black politicians who don’t conform to her political worldview to be racial traitors. More specifically: coconuts. Black on the outside, white on the inside. Uses the slur. Deletes it afterwards. Which means she knows exactly what she’s done.
Three — actively supports the legal campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s proscribed terrorist list. Hamas. Named. On the record.
Four — festooned with flag emojis. Palestinian. Sudanese. Transgender pride. Venezuelan. Iranian. The full suite of causes, worn as identity rather than considered position.
Five — disciplined by her former party for her views. Leaves. Gets absorbed by the Greens. Gets protected by the party leadership. Gets elected. Gets promoted.
Six — reflects on her past social media posts. The posts remain. Undeleted. Unapologised for. Available to anyone who looks.
Seven — occupies a role specifically created by abolishing community safety — the borough’s existing safeguarding infrastructure — and replacing it with herself.
Eight — sits on the borough’s Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education.
Nine — a school governor. Who appears to simply tolerate Jewish pupils.
Ten — never apologises. Never retracts. Reflects. Which in the political lexicon of 2026 means: waits for the news cycle to move on.
Eleven — a modern day, female Alf Garnett. Except the joke is on her even more deeply than it ever was on him. Alf knew what he hated and said so from his armchair. Uma Hauty knows what she hates, says so on social media, deletes the bits she regrets, keeps the bits she doesn’t — and accepts a cabinet portfolio called Healing. Everyone in the council is of the belief that her predecessor called it this as a hint.
At least Alf never pretended.
This is not a comedy script. No series to follow. Neither is it a pitch, or, a writers’ room exercise. Neither is it Uma Hauty. Or, E.A. Harvests (Eric, to nobody).
This, my friend, is real life. In the London Borough of Lewisham. A south London borough of some 300,000 people.
Her name is Councillor Hau-Yu Tam.
His name is Mayor Liam Shrivastava.
She is the Cabinet Member for Communities, Sanctuary and Healing on Lewisham Council.
The appointment was made on Wednesday 21 May 2026.
The new Green administration — in one of its first acts in power — abolished the community safety portfolio and replaced it with this.
Every detail above is real. The racial slurs against two Black Cabinet ministers. The deleted posts. The ones that weren’t deleted. The Hamas deproscription support. The antisemitic posts about Zionism still live on X as you read this. The school governorship. The Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education. The Jewish children she tolerates.
The incense is not confirmed.
Everything else is.
Now. Picture Lewisham on a Wednesday morning. The kind of grey that doesn’t lift. The kind of borough that was promised things. Streets that remember when the buses ran on time, when the community safety officer knew your name, where most local authority planning committees pretend to care. The chamber where E.A. Harvests ate his last breakfast without knowing it. The corridor where the vending machine has been broken since 2019 and nobody knows who to call because that department was restructured.
Into this — a cabinet portfolio called Healing.
Into this — Councillor Hau-Yu Tam. £41,603 per year. Basic allowance plus special responsibility. The special responsibility being, apparently, this.
On 18 March 2025, Hau-Yu Tam reposted a message on X. “Zionism is pure evil and must be abolished.” Six days later, another. “Zionism was undoubtedly and unquestionably the Nazism of our time.” No hesitation. No caveat. No gap between reading and transmitting. The Lost Pause — the space that once existed between absorbing an idea and broadcasting it, engineered out of existence by platforms built to remove it — was not available to her.
The posts went out.
They are still out.
This is Bolitics — where political performance and psychological condition share the same junction box. This is what Emotional Incontinence looks like when it finds institutional shelter. The brain stem fires. The retweet button is pressed. The reasoning brain turns up three days later with nothing to do.
Somewhere in Lewisham, a Jewish family reads the morning news over breakfast. In May 2026, the Board of Deputies of British Jews described antisemitism as out of control in Britain. Lewisham’s response was to appoint Hau-Yu Tam. Something Barnet could do without. Barnet — for those unfamiliar — being home to London’s largest Jewish community. They have enough problems, as it is.
Who does this appointment serve?
Not Lewisham’s Jewish community. Not its civic fabric. Not the function of the role as stated.
Consider what it means to live in this borough. To pay council tax to an administration whose Cabinet Member has told you, in public, what she thinks of your history. To send your children to schools she governs.
You see. What this says is that it serves the Green Party’s need to signal. More than anything. The costs extracted from Hau-Yu Tam by Labour — the suspension, the discipline, the years of being a lone opposition voice in a chamber that barely knew she existed — were not costs at all. They were credentials. The punishment became the portfolio.
Zack Polanski, Green Party deputy leader, was under significant public pressure to remove Tam as a candidate before the May 2026 elections. The antisemitic posts were in the public domain — first documented by the Jewish Chronicle in April 2025. The racial slurs documented. The Hamas deproscription support on the record. The Green Party declined to answer questions on whether they endorsed her comments or whether she would face sanctions.
Labour MP Peter Prinsley, a Jewish Labour Movement member, wrote directly to Green Party leadership asking: “Do you condemn the racist comments made by Councillor Tam?” He called for her immediate suspension. The Green Party did not answer that either.
Polanski took no action. He reflected on it, presumably. He then gave her the healing role. This is the same Zack Polanski currently under formal investigation by the London Assembly standards commissioner over alleged unpaid council tax on a narrowboat he described as his home. He has admitted he may have made an unintentional mistake. The Jewish MP’s written questions remain unanswered. No doubt, another error of unintentionality.
Labour Party Chair Anna Turley said Tam should have been “sacked as a candidate long before she became a councillor” and that the appointment was simply shameful. Aimed squarely at Polanski.
She is not wrong. And on the subject of Polanski — one has to have at least some idea of what one is doing. Think of it as being a boat. Narrowboat, or barge perhaps, and maintaining it. Paying the council tax on it, even. Okay, perhaps not then.
However the Green Party is not listening to Labour Party Chairs. You know. Those with more experience in politics. The Threat Generation Concept — inflated vocabulary, economic insecurity, platform engineering — has built an environment in which calling a Black politician a racial slur reads as radical honesty, and comparing Zionism to Nazism reads as courage. In this environment Polanski’s inaction was not negligence.
It was endorsement.
Lord Walney, the government’s former independent adviser on political violence, described the election of candidates who have espoused such views as marking a “dismal and dangerous era of sectarian politics” in Britain. Lewisham elected one of them. Then gave her the healing role.
Again. Picture this. The borough at dusk. The schools closing. The children going home — all of them, the seen and the unseen, the heard and the unheard, to borrow the vocabulary of their new Cabinet Member. The Jewish children among them. Going home to parents who have read what she posted about Zionism. Who have not deleted it. Who cannot delete it because it was never theirs to delete.
Lewisham Mayor Liam Shrivastava offered the following statement.
Tam, he said, “has reflected on this and the impact of what she has said in the past on social media.”
Has reflected.
Not: has apologised. Not: has retracted. Not: has looked a Jewish constituent in the eye and said the words that acknowledgement of harm requires.
Has reflected.
The posts remain. The reflection, apparently, changed nothing about the appointment. This is not negligence distinguished from malice. This is conviction — ideological conviction — wearing the language of reflection as a press release. The difference between the two is the difference between a mistake and a position.
This is a position. The Communities, Sanctuary and Healing lead is a cabinet role. Funny word, Sanctuary it appears. To some at least. Who should, at least, become better acquainted with the definition of the word.
Sanctuary. The word has a history. For the Jewish community that history is not abstract — it is lived, inherited, carried. Sanctuary was what was promised and withheld. Sanctuary was what the Kindertransport children arrived looking for. Sanctuary is what the gates of every country that turned the ships away failed to provide.
Lewisham’s new Cabinet Member for Communities, Sanctuary and Healing compared Zionism to Nazism.
She has the word in her title. Others, of course, may have an entirely different interpretation of how apt it is.
One can only assume the new cabinet member for Nazism didn’t quite reach the required number of votes. How times have changed.
It is worth pausing, briefly, to consider how some people find the nerve to criticise the far right.
This is where Transmorphing becomes visible in its full form.
The Green Party did not set out to become the party that appoints people who compare Zionism to Nazism to community healing roles. Nobody drafted that manifesto. Nobody stood at a 2010 conference with an overhead projector and a cup of instant coffee and said: this is where we’re going.
Some of the causes absorbed along the way were real. The solidarity, in many cases, genuine. The injustices being protested, undeniable. None of that is in dispute here.
However the journey from environmental concern to this cabinet portfolio is not accidental. It is a decade of ideological accumulation. Each new cause absorbed. Each new solidarity adopted without examination. Each platform algorithm rewarding the most unmediated expression of group identity. The destination is always somewhere the departure point would not have recognised.
The party that once wanted to save the planet now controls Lewisham.
And Lewisham’s Jewish community did not vote for where the journey ended.
Tam is not an anomaly. A Labour Party dossier identified twenty-five Green candidates contesting the May 2026 elections with a history of antisemitism and extremism. At least ten had justified or downplayed violence against the Jewish community. The Green Party fielded them anyway.
They called it Healing and Sanctuary. She called Zionism the Nazism of our time. Somebody in that room thought these two things were compatible.
This publication recently documented the infrastructure of foreign-directed influence running through British protest culture. The useful idiots were not sinister. They were enthusiastic. They reposted. They amplified. They performed solidarity for an audience of one — the algorithm — while the wiring ran somewhere else entirely. Nobody asked where the antisemitic posts originated. Nobody paused long enough to ask. Friction had already been removed.
Lewisham’s Green administration has a portfolio called Communities, Sanctuary and Healing.
It was assembled from the same raw material. And it is Lewisham’s Jewish community that lives inside the result. Others may think differently. Of course.
Well. With the chamber empty now, the fluorescent lights still on because nobody turned them off. The agenda folded on the clerk’s table. The smell of the incense fading slowly into the institutional carpet. The notepad in the Senior Officer’s pocket. The vending machine in the corridor, broken since 2019, broken still, the building around it broken as of today.
If the Green Party appoints someone with this public record to a community healing role in a borough with a substantial Jewish population, defends the appointment, offers no retraction, issues no sanction — then the party has a position on antisemitism, on racial slurs, on Hamas, on Zionism.
It just hasn’t announced it directly.
It announced it through the job title.
Oh, and there’s also a school governor in this story.
Furthermore, there is a member of Lewisham Council’s Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education.
Not forgetting, there are Jewish children in the schools of this borough in this story. Whose parents pay council tax.
And there is a woman who reposted, without pause, that Zionism is the Nazism of our time — and was given a cabinet seat by the Green Party in the borough where those children go to school.
Given everything you’ve read so far, the word sham in the title of the borough has probably never been more appropriate.
Yet. Somehow. She tolerates them.
The Green Party did not see the contradiction.
Or it saw it. With one eye blind.
And decided the healing could wait.
Lewishambles. One may say.
One supposes they could have renamed it the London Borough of Healing. Had something similar not already been in existence, on the other side of the Thames. Ealing. To those not native of our capital.
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