Reform’s Zia Yusuf and Green Party leader Zack Polanski locked horns in a fiery exchange on BBC Question Time last night. The self-styled “Green Populist” kicked things off with a wild accusation, claiming Farage had allied with a “Nazi” group:
“Nigel Farage, he joined forces with the Swedish Democrats in the European Parliament. This is a far-right Nazi group. They want to deport people not based on the colour of his skin, but from the places that they’ve come from. This is racism. It’s fascism and we should call it out.”
Yusuf hit back:
“[Polanski] literally made money by charging women on the promise that he could literally enlarge the size of their breasts by hypnotizing them. In Polanski’s version of Britain, it is legal to sell fentanyl, crack cocaine and heroin, but illegal to rent your flat out”
Last week, it took David Lammy mere hours to row back from his own claim that Farage “flirted with the Hitler Youth.” Godwin’s Law…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”