The Greens are now the largest party in my council - and their manifesto is terrifying
GB News' Charlie Peters quizzes a Green Party member on the language used by a winning candidate in local elections
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This Marxist madness would make Jeremy Corbyn blush, writes the former civil servant and government speechwriter
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The Greens are now the largest party on my council, and I’m absolutely terrified. Their manifesto for Lambeth was filled with 28 pages of Marxist madness that would make Jeremy Corbyn blush.
They’re plotting a publicly funded campaign to encourage every Lambeth resident - regardless of where they actually work - to join a trade union. How this will improve services for residents, they cannot say.
Even worse, Lambeth is set to host “a summit of anti-cuts councils" - a jolly for unions, councillors and big state campaigners paid for out of taxpayers’ pockets.
Polanski’s pals are following Starmer’s lead by taking more from workers to pay more in benefits. They’ve promised to help Lambeth residents claim as much welfare as possible and to explore a raft of new council-funded handouts.
Landlords and developers are firmly in their sights, too. A new private landlord licensing scheme, more bureaucracy, and “whole life-cycle carbon assessments” before building would send rents soaring and keep housebuilding at pitiful rates.
How do our new representatives propose to tackle Lambeth’s violent crime epidemic? By campaigning against stop and search, opposing facial recognition technology, and “taking a public health approach to drugs and knife crime”. Hardened criminals will be laughing, while hard-working police officers tear their hair out.
The manifesto was full of fuzzy language about standing up to “divisive politics”, protecting people “from the global majority”, and LGBTQ+ backgrounds. Defending Jews against a tidal wave of antisemitic violence wasn’t mentioned once.
But don’t panic, they’re backing “a national campaign for an All-Party Commission of Inquiry for Truth and Reparative Justice for the UK’s role in colonial enslavement”. More virtue signalling, more taxpayers’ money down the drain.
Their prospectus for government was a charter for cronyism: businesses that “recognise trade unions” could be favoured and public money could be used to "resource and support” local charities, campaigns and “independent media”. Independent media funded out of council coffers? Pravda is coming to Lambeth, comrades!
And I’m sure these Polanski-approved hacks will be all over his plans to make Lambeth a safe haven for illegal immigrants.
His acolytes have promised to end cooperation with immigration enforcement - stopping intelligence sharing and giving no access beyond the legal bare minimum. Illegal working would soar, and punishing law-abiding businesses would allow criminals to cash in.
As if that weren’t enough, they’re set to defy the Supreme Court on single-sex spaces - promising “trans-inclusive” access for staff and service users and risking court battles paid for by taxpayers in the process.
The Greens want to make outsourcing services a last resort. We’ve already seen where this ideology leads. In Brighton, housing repairs being brought in-house led to rising backlogs and surging complaints.
In Bristol, it meant missed bin collections and proposals to clear rubbish just once a month. I’d rather stick with the private sector, thank you very much.
If there is any consolation, it is this: the Greens now have to govern. They will have to empty the bins, fill the potholes and explain to residents why their council tax is being splurged on union recruitment drives and activist summits while illegal immigrants run riot and services suffer.
The Green nightmare is becoming a reality. With any luck, it will be a warning to the rest of the country to never let them anywhere near real power.