Sometimes mistaken for a cuddly group of tree huggers who just want better care for the environment, in fact the Green party is terrifying, says Annabel Denham in the Spectator. Here’s an excerpt.
In the past few months, the Greens have suspended a former London Assembly member and two-time London mayoral candidate after he lamented that colleagues had denounced the Cass Review [into gender identity services]. After the local elections, one councillor sparked outrage by shouting “Allahu Akbar” to celebrate his victory. At the weekend, it was reported that three candidates for the party were no longer standing amid suggestions they made racist comments. What do traditional Green voters – those primarily driven by environmental concerns – make of these developments?
Now there’s the backlash to their scandalous maternity policy. In the wake of the Ockenden Review and the Birth Trauma Inquiry, it has emerged the Greens have been promoting ‘natural’ deliveries and promising to reduce Caesarean sections. Yet it was precisely this mindset – that intervention ought to be delayed, despite the risks to patient safety – that led to the tragic deaths of 300 babies and 12 mothers at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust. The language of ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ births was formally dropped by the Royal College of Midwives in 2017, so why is the Green party still deploying it? …
The Scottish Greens’ transgender policy wrecked the SNP coalition. They lecture us about ‘fairness’ when degrowth will hit the poorest hardest. They persistently block housing developments, yet advocate uncontrolled immigration. Perhaps most baffling is their opposition to both nuclear and, on some occasions, local solar farms. They don’t want clean energy, they just want less energy.
Even more terrifying: the Greens are “polling higher among the under-50s than both the Tories and Reform”. (Well, according to YouGov.)
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People are now on mass seemingly going to vote for Labour. The photo above of Starmer with that eco fundamentalist nut job Miliband should be enough for people to do the very opposite, but the reason they are going to give Labour this vast majority is that they simply do not know what NET ZERO really is, and they don’t know how terrible it is going to make their lives. If they did know, they would never vote for any of the two main parties as they are both fully onboard with this blatant eco socialism that pretends to be about saving the planet. Labour are the worse of the two parties though and will impoverish us even faster and harder than what the Tories would.
I urge people to not just vote for the Labour Party because you think the Tories made a pig’s ear of everything, which they certainly did. But all you will be doing is jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
One party alone are against this NET ZERO scam —REFORM. —–If you want to retain the prosperity that you and your family have attained since the war, and you want your children to have the very same standard of living, you must realise that with NET ZERO, the two main parties seek to take all of that away.
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A massive factory fire that began after several lithium batteries exploded has killed at least 16 people in South Korea.
The blaze broke out on Monday morning at the Aricell plant in Hwaseong city, about 45km (28 miles) south of the capital Seoul.
Local television footage showed small explosions going off as firefighters sought to put out the fire. A part of the roof had collapsed.
South Korea is a leading producer of lithium batteries, which are used in many items from electric vehicles to laptops.
Hwaseong’s medical authority, Sim Jung-sik, said 16 people have been confirmed dead while seven others were injured.
The Aricell factory housed an estimated 35,000 battery cells on its second floor, where the batteries were inspected and packaged, with more stored elsewhere.