Much has been written in recent days about the outlandish proposals and deplorable opinions of the Green Party candidates standing for the forthcoming elections in May. We have read about one candidate in Scotland who wants to abolish prisons, of another in London who called David Lammy a ‘coconut’, and a whole host of grass-roots campaigners who have repugnant views regarding the Jews, the most interesting being one from a Green Party candidate in Camden who avers that the 9/11 attack on the US ‘was done by the Zionists with Dick Cheney as their executing authority’. Andrew Gilligan has also exposed a trio of Green Party candidates who have shared extremist views, including one who promoted a video suggesting that a terror attack on a synagogue was “not anti-semitism” but was “revenge” for Israel “murdering people”.

Economic catastrophe often heralds the arrival of this dystopia, or, alternatively, its descent into chaos

Economic catastrophe often heralds the arrival of this dystopia, or, alternatively, its descent into chaos

As titillating as it is to dwell on these effusions, it risks becoming a distraction. It’s not so much the rogue candidates and street-level simpletons who should be of primary concern. Rather, it’s the deluded policies that come straight from the top that should worry everyone, not least because of the gains the Greens are set to make next month,........

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