[The Weeping Angel]

It seems some of their councillors have all the qualities of Reform councillors.

https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/gr ... -officers/

Former mayoral candidate arrested for assaulting three police officers

Siobhan Harper-Nunes, a Green party councillor for Ladywood and former mayoral candidate, has been charged with assaulting five people including three police officers. Police were called to reports of disorder in Edgbaston at around 5pm on Thursday, near the junction of Monument Road and Hagley Road, after which the 66-year-old was arrested. In the days since, she has been posting her version of events on social media — we can’t share this for legal reasons, but Harper-Nunes seems to have no such qualms. She’ll be up in Birmingham Magistrate’s Court on 10 September for a plea hearing and has been suspended from the Greens, pending an investigation. Harper-Nunes is big on the local business and political scene. Not only did she run for the West Midlands mayoralty in 2024, she’s the founder of Shakti Women, a ‘women’s empowerment agency’ for businesswomen and also the vice chair of the Birmingham Race Impact Group. (ITV)

[Tubby Isaacs]

Someone ought to bring in a big windfall tax or something.

[Boiler]

You could certainly see and smell the smoke from Holme Fen this morning, several miles north of it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Interesting to hear about Burnham's "silence on the climate crisis" from the Greens. Polanski's whole schtick has been to sideline the hard climate change stuff and concentrate instead on Corbynite stuff.

[Oboogie]

Interesting to hear about Burnham's "silence on the climate crisis" from the Greens. Polanski's whole schtick has been to sideline the hard climate change stuff and concentrate instead on Corbynite stuff.

Yes, if your chief concern is climate change Starmer's Labour were the best party to support, now the LibDems are probably the most vocally Green, whatever, it's certainly not The Greens.

[The Weeping Angel]

These people are psychopaths.

[davidjay]

I normally wouldn't bother about an extremist party principling itself into irrelevance, but while they're still getting media attention, these clowns cause everyone on the Left to be lumped together as anti-Semetic fanatics.

[Oboogie]

I normally wouldn't bother about an extremist party principling itself into irrelevance, but while they're still getting media attention, these clowns cause everyone on the Left to be lumped together as anti-Semetic fanatics.

Which was a major factor (not the only one!) for making Labour so repellent to the electorate in 2019.

[Abernathy]

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I normally wouldn't bother about an extremist party principling itself into irrelevance, but while they're still getting media attention, these clowns cause everyone on the Left to be lumped together as anti-Semetic fanatics.
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Which was a major factor (not the only one!) for making Labour so repellent to the electorate in 2019.
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This is true. In fact, I think what we can see happening to the Green Party under Polanski is more or less identical to what happened to the Labour Party during the Corbyn years. .Corbynites used to brag about the increase in membership numbers, but what was behind those numbers was a considerable influx of Trots, Tankies, SWP types, and other cranks, many of whose attitudes to the boundary between anti-Zionism and outright, racist anti-semitism was, shall we say, somewhat carelessly porous. These cranks found a welcoming home in the Labour Party, and it would now appear, in the wake of the work that Starmer did to expunge the stain of anti-semitism from the party, that they are finding an alternative welcoming home in Polanski's Green Party.