As the general election date creeps ever closer, the Green party has found itself in hot water. It transpires that the eco-zealots are currently investigating almost 20 candidates over ‘antisemitic’ insults and conspiracy theories — and party officials have a dossier of dirt on the parliamentary hopefuls. Oh dear…
In the latest election scandal, it turns out that the Green party is looking into candidates who have suggested the 7 October attack by Hamas was planned by Israel and compared Zionism to cancer. The revelations follow a councillor controversy, in which Leeds city council politician Mothin Ali was found to have labelled a rabbi a ‘creep’ and a ‘kind of animal’ — and posted on the day of the Hamas attack that ‘white supremacist European settler colonialism must end’. Meanwhile Adam Pugh, the candidate for London’s Deptford and Lewisham North constituency was found to have tweeted on 7 October that ‘there is no peace without freedom. Resist’ — and when other candidates were accused of antisemitism last week, Pugh wrote: ‘Either they haven’t discovered by tweets yet or I’m not being vocal enough.’ Golly.
As the deadline for general election nominations this afternoon looms closer, the eco-activists are doing their utmost to re-vet controversial candidates. Talk about leaving things to the last minute…
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