Mick Hartley

The Greens are certainly making the news. From the Telegraph:

Two Green Party candidates have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred for allegedly posting anti-Semitic comments online.

Saiqa Ali, who is standing in Streatham, in the borough of Lambeth, and Sabine Mairey, the candidate for Clapham Town, also in Lambeth, were detained by Metropolitan Police officers on Thursday morning.

One of the social media posts by Ms Ali shows an image of an armed man in a Hamas headband under the slogan “resistance is freedom”. The militant group is a proscribed terrorist organisation.

A post by Ms Mairey includes a picture of a man holding a placard that reads “ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitism, it’s revenge” above a picture of two children that it says have been “murdered by Israel”.

She also suggested that Israel was worse than Nazi Germany with a photo of Auschwitz which said the Nazis “had to hide what they were doing”.

Not that this will cause much disaffection in Green party ranks. By now, surely, they know what they’re voting for.