Emily Clarkson, daughter of Jeremy, has a substantial Instagram following and often posts her political views online.
Her job is, quite literally, influencing people.
So when she posted her displeasure at something the Gorton and Denton by-election Reform candidate Matt Goodwin once wrote – about taxing women who choose to be child-free – her followers probably took note.
They possibly even believed it was Reform party policy, which, of course, it wasn’t (and I think I can safely say never would be).
Emily argues her point from a feminist perspective very well.
Her words and her presentation are delivered with a punch.
But it is often from a very narrow viewpoint because, well, that’s the nature – and drawback – of a bite-sized social media post.
And, unlike the mainstream media, Emily and her fellow influencers are under no obligation to provide balance or context.
They don’t have to offer any other point of view or perspective, other than their own.
However, the power that these young feminist influencers wield on social media is extraordinary because it is where so many of their peers head for news content and debate.
We saw it in Gorton and Denton.
One of the largest groups to vote for the winning Green Party candidate, Hannah Spencer, was young, white, feminist women who themselves posted on social media and who are undoubtedly influenced by what they read and heard on social media sites.
For millions of us, the Greens have long been the party for the environment with a raft of well-meaning but impractical policies.
Well, no more, as we discovered in this by-election: what the Greens want today are open borders; to legalise all drugs including heroin and crack cocaine; to decriminalise prostitution and make pornography more accessible.
The party is ardently pro-Palestine and viscerally opposed to Israel.
Still impractical and now downright dangerous, but the Green Party is attractive to many young women.
But what really frazzles my brain is that these young, white feminists were voting for a party that, at the weekend, has been unequivocal in its support for a regime that has few equals in its oppression of, and cruelty towards, women.
A regime that punishes women for simply walking in the street with their hair uncovered.
A regime which, as human rights organisations have discovered, orders women to be raped by prison guards the night before they are executed to ensure that they are no longer virgins and so denied entrance to paradise.
A regime that slaughtered around 30,000 of its own people – mainly young men and women – who took to the streets in January to protest at the misery of life under the corrupt and incompetent rule of the mullahs.
The leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, described the US and Israel as ‘rogue states’ for the strikes on Iran that removed Ayatollah Khamenei and his cronies.
His deputy, Mothin Ali, attended a rally in London on Saturday in support of the evil regime, while the Greens' new spin doctor, Abi Wilkinson, denies that Jewish women were raped in the October 7....
