The Green Party’s aggressive sectarian campaigning in Gorton & Denton is curious considering the party’s very much non-conservative policy on contentious faith issues. E.g. abolishing all faith schools…
Their policy on faith schools, uncovered on the members area on the Party’s own website, states that “no publicly-funded school shall be run by a religious organisation.” This would mean a radical move to end all taxpayer funding for faith schools…
In 2024/25 there were 6,781 state funded faith schools in England – 34% of all state schools. This includes ones from religious groups including Church of England, Roman Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Hindu. The Greens’ faith-mixing policy includes plans to “facilitate the children mixing with other local schools.” Deliberately allocating school places to children in schools that are farther away in order to ensure schools are “diverse”…
The policy comes from the Green Party charter, which is continuously revised. Policies passed by conference are adopted as party policy until rescinded. These are currently included in the Green Party’s library of “Policies for a Sustainable Society.” The official position on that is: “The Green Party’s Policies for a Sustainable Society (PSS) represents the policy foundation which the Party stands upon.”
The Greens have always been controversial for the forced progressivism of their education policy. In 2016, the Scottish Greens were attacked for proposing to close Catholic schools across Scotland. How will their official policy against faith schools go down with conservative Muslim voters in Gorton and Denton?
Taxpayers have forked out at least £4.95 million in golden goodbyes for senior civil servants in the NHS. According to health minister Karin Smyth, in the year 2024-25 there were 33 exit payment cases disclosed by integrated care boards which were of a value of £150,001 or more. Eye-watering…
For context, there are currently 42 NHS Integrated Care Boards responsible for carving up NHS budgets and commissioning services for local areas. Meanwhile, as of November last year, NHS England has not opened a voluntary redundancy scheme and staffing costs have actually gone up since Starmer promised to ‘abolish’ the quango last March. The Hippocratic Oath doesn’t apply to quangos you’ve promised to abolish, by the way…
Scottish Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth will announce the statutory inquiry in Holyrood today. Professor Alexis Jay has been overseeing a national review of the evidence in Scotland over the last few months to determine whether an additional inquiry is needed and of what kind. There is now enough information that has come to light to hold a public inquiry in Scotland…
Last November GB News revealed that Police Scotland failed to investigate alleged grooming gangs in Glasgow that targeted vulnerable girls in care. Now there will finally be an inquiry after Scottish ministers resisted one…
Guido’s Adam Cherry headed up to Gorton and Denton ahead of this Thursday’s by-election. What do voters really think? Watch on YouTube to find out…
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Later in Hamish Falconer’s statements to the Commons, the crucial line, that US concerns are “very significant“:
“We are now discussing those concerns with the United States directly. We have a process going through Parliament in relation to the treaty. We will bring that back to Parliament at the appropriate time. We are pausing for discussions with our American counterparts.”
Out of Parliament…
UPDATE: The Foreign Office is now trying to insist that Falconer misspoke. A spokesman says:
“There is no pause. We have never set a deadline. Timings will be announced in the usual way. We are continuing discussions with the US, and we have been clear we will not proceed without their support.”
Asked about warnings of a civil war in an interview with The House, Reform MP Danny Kruger said:
“Yeah. The only chance of unity for our country is Reform. If we don’t win, or if we win and then make a mess of it, I do fear for our country.”