Category: Green Party
Greens turn tables on Labour, asking where they stand on climate action
Green Party MP Adrian Ramsay. Wikipedia CC. Green MP, Adrian Ramsay, has responded to Ed Miliband’s speech at Labour conference, where he said that parties that deny the dangers posed by the climate crisis are a threat to national security. The foreign secretary went on to ask: “Let us therefore ask each and every party, where do you stand on tackling the climate crisis?
Adrian Ramsay said “Ed Miliband is right to highlight the threat that climate breakdown poses to our national security – though the government is still to release all the evidence UK intelligence agencies have provided on this.
“The Foreign Secretary also asked today where each and every party stands on tackling the climate crisis. Good question.
“The Green Party is unequivocal: no new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. No green light for a third runway at Heathrow. And we want to see massive investment in upgrading our homes, cleaning up our energy system, and improving transport to tackle the climate crisis and cut people’s bills.”
“So we ask Labour: where do you stand on these issues?”
Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London. (Photo: Handout/Chris J. Ratcliffe for Greenpeace via Getty Images) 
Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards Work needs to begin now on fixing our social care system, Not kicked down the road again, say Greens
Ellie Chowns, Green Party MP for North Herefordshire. CC image Wikipedia. Responding to a pledge made by Andy Burnham that there will be access to free social care services for everyone in England, and that the plans will be put before voters at the next general election, Green Party leader in parliament, Dr Ellie Chowns MP, said:
“For too long successive governments have kicked social care down the road and treated it as a political football – so it is certainly welcome to hear the Prime Minister both recognising the scale of the challenge and signalling a willingness to work across party lines to tackle it.
“The Green Party is clear that social care should be available to everyone who needs it and free at the point of use, just like the NHS is for healthcare – it makes no sense that help is available for those facing cancer, but not for those struggling with dementia, disability, or old age.
“Despite the Prime Minister’s stated commitment to working cross-party on this issue, so far no invitation has been extended to the Greens to take part in discussions. We would therefore like to reiterate to the Prime Minister that the Green Party stands ready to work constructively with the government and other parties to build a social care system that commands broad support and truly works for families across Britain.
“And for those struggling with the cost of care now, promises of transformative action following the next general election are simply not good enough. After years of delay, we simply cannot kick this crucial work down the road again. Work needs to begin now to fix the system that is failing too many people and putting unsustainable pressure on families and the NHS.”
Zionism is racism, says Green leader Zack Polanski
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Zack Polanski, UK Green Party leader. [Photo/AA] Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said Zionism is a form of racism and declared himself an anti-Zionist, drawing boos and heckling at a Jewish community election hustings in London.
Asked whether Zionism was racist, Polanski said: “If you’re defining Zionism as a displacement genocide, which is how, in practice, Zionism has become, then that is racism.” His answer followed a qualification that people understood the term differently, Jewish News reported.
Speaking in Holborn and St Pancras on Thursday, Polanski acknowledged that his declaration of anti-Zionism would be difficult for some audience members to hear.
When challenged about where Jewish people should go, he argued that Israel’s exercise of self-determination relied on the displacement and genocide of Palestinians. The response prompted further boos.
Jewish News described his explicit identification as an anti-Zionist as a shift from his previous non-Zionist label.
The hustings were organised by pro-Israel lobby group Board of Deputies of British Jews and the London Jewish Forum ahead of the constituency’s 8 October by-election.
READ: Green Party leader accuses UK Chief Rabbi of promoting Israel’s political agenda
Polanski, who is Jewish, also argued that criticism of Israel must be distinguished from anti-Semitism. “I think we need to separate antisemitism from criticism of the Israeli state, and I think far too often those things become conflated”, Polanski said.
Commenting on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Polanski said: “Many genocide scholars around the world recognise it as a genocide, and calling it that is not antisemitic. And I think as a Jewish community we need to come together to recognise that, when we call that antisemitic, we are making ourselves as Jewish people less safe.”
His comments echo a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly more than five decades ago.
On 10 November 1975, the assembly passed Resolution 3379, determining that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”. The resolution was adopted by 72 votes to 35, with 32 abstentions.
The General Assembly revoked that determination on 16 December 1991 through Resolution 46/86.
Polanski’s remarks also come amid a debate within his own party. Green members are expected to discuss a motion declaring Zionism racist at their forthcoming conference.
READ: Legal victory for scholar denied university post after calling Gaza a ‘textbook case of genocide’
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