Yesterday, the Green party announced that its candidate for the Makerfield by-election was quitting the race fewer than ten hours after joining it. Chris Kennedy had to withdraw for ‘personal reasons’, the ever-so-understanding socialist brigade declared. ‘Family has to come first’, Zack Polanski’s party naturally told its followers.
But there was an – shall we say – inconvenient detail omitted from the announcement. Registered nurse and safeguarding specialist Kennedy had quite the colourful social media history. In one instance, he shared a post describing the attack on Jewish ambulances in Golders Green as a ‘false flag’ operation.
An Instagram video called the arrests of two men over the attack ‘total bullshit to keep the false flag flying’. To remind you, those charged with arson were Hamza Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, and a 17-year-old boy. Kennedy also shared a post by the self-described ‘proud ethno nationalist’ Hugh Anthony claiming that the Golders Green attack made ‘no sense’.
When asked by the Times about the posts yesterday, the party insisted that be-kind Kennedy ‘apologises for the offence caused’. Purely coincidentally, no doubt, he later withdrew from the race for those entirely understandable ‘personal reasons’.
To be fair to Kennedy, as Kermit always said: ‘It’s not easy bein’ Green’.
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