Green Party leader Zack Polanski has suggested talking about increasing immigration “later” while he tries to convince Reform voters to back the Greens instead. Probably necessary, yes…
Speaking at the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union annual conference in Staffordshire, Polanski said “you don’t have to agree on everything” in reference to Reform voters, who he said must not be “lectured” to:
“Actually, what you can often, or I say from my point of view, agree with on a Reform vote when I speak to them is that there’s mass inequality in society. That the super rich are exploiting us and manipulating us. We can park a conversation about immigration till later. Let’s first of all make sure that we’re taxing the rich and we’re redistributing power and wealth and putting it back into our communities. So, I’m not naive about the challenge there is to win so many people back who have gone over to Reform or are thinking about going over to Reform.”
This was after Zack claimed “we’re a country that has largely or often built off the back of immigration… sometimes the tensions between different communities, once we’ve found a way to resolve that, has resulted in some of the best things about our society.” He added that there is no reason the government should prevent anyone at all from immigrating:
“We should welcome people here, particularly if they’re fleeing war or persecution, because of our common humanity. Because I don’t believe that your right to live or your right to be treated as a human being should be dictated by the place you happen to be born in by pure luck or chance.”
Green Party’s internal analysis of its immigration policy predicts that five million may arrive per year as a result. Park that, says Zack…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”