Oh dear. Less than ten hours after the Green Party announced its candidate for the Makerfield by-election, said candidate withdrew from the race. Zack Polanski’s gang of lefties named registered nurse and children’s safeguarding specialist Chris Kennedy as their man to take on Labour and Reform around 7.30am this morning. By 4.45pm, he was out for ‘personal and family reasons’.
In a statement, the Greens claimed:
We wish Chris the best and understand that family has to come first. This election has to be about how to make the super-rich pay their fair share, how we tackle the cost-of-living crisis with lower bills and affordable housing, and how we protect our public services and our green spaces. It has to be about offering Makerfield hope over hate.
The party has now reopened nominations for the position. Green old-timers, including former leader Caroline Lucas, had argued for the party to sit this contest out in the name of the greater good of defeating Reform. She was overruled. Let’s see if they can get a little further with candidate selection attempt two…
Meanwhile, efforts by the left to tarnish Reform’s ‘plucky plumber’ candidate, Rob Kenyon, are not going down as intended. A Metro headline hit out at the army reservist for having previously warned that ‘foreign’ criminals are ‘invading’ Britain. Clearly not one to back down easily, Kenyon responded on X: ‘The mainstream media has accused me of tweeting that foreign criminals are invading our country. Am I wrong?’
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