The Scottish Green party can usually be relied upon to provide some light relief at election time. But this year, in their manifesto for the Scottish Parliament elections on 7 May, they have outdone themselves in fantasy policy-making.

The Greens want to ban everything from horse racing to homework; from nuclear power to wood-burning stoves. Candidates such as Kate Nevens, who is almost certain to be elected as a list MSP for Edinburgh and the Lothians, say they want to  abolish prisons, presumably so that murderers and rapists can be free to express themselves.

Oh the joy of watching Keir Starmer descend into fury!

The hateful posts of yet another Green party candidate

Christopher Eccleston is right about young white men

The Greens also want to legalise hard drugs, the distribution of which would likely offer attractive job opportunities to the thousands of criminals released from Scotland’s jails. The Greens want to install a shooting gallery – sorry, ‘safe drug consumption facility’ – in every town in Scotland so that folk can inject themselves with their drug of choice in peace.

The Greens would like to open our borders so that every ‘undocumented’ citizen of the world can arrive........

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