Green Party leader attacks Farage – says migrants are welcome in the UK
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has taken aim at Labour and Reform’s stance on immigration, saying that migrants and refugees are welcome in the United Kingdom.
Speaking at the opening of the Green Party conference in Bournemouth, Polanski addressed the divisive issue of immigration and asylum seekers entering the country.
He said the Green Party supported policies that welcomed migrants and refugees, and referred to Reform’s politics as those of despair, while saying that the Greens offered hope instead.
“This is a party that is unafraid to say migration has helped to make this country what we are today,” Polanski said.
“We will say it loud, we will say it clear, migrants and refugees are welcome here.”
Polanski laid into Reform UK leader Farage and the harder position taken by Labour on immigration in recent months in response to Reform’s increasing popularity.
“The Prime Minister might call this an island of strangers. When Farage says jump, Labour might say ‘how high?’,” he said.
“But the Greens will never dance to the tune of a Trump-loving, tax-avoiding, science-denying, NHS-dismantling, corporate stooge.”
UK politics ‘poisoned by extreme wealth’
A major focus of the Green Party’s message was the need to tax the super-rich in the United Kingdom to fund public services and reduce the cost of living for the broader population.
“This is a country that has so much going for it, but we have been time and time again failed by a political class poisoned by extreme wealth,” Polanski said.
He said that the UK must end its ‘failed privatisation experiment’ and tax the wealthiest to make the country one everyone can afford to live in.
“We are all paying the cost of the selling off of our shared assets… a tiny few have taken our power, our wealth. Things must change, and it is time to take it back.”
“We will bring down your bills, we will cut the cost of living, and we will protect our NHS,” Polanski said.
“We will end rip-off Britain, and we will make sure that the very wealthiest pay more tax.”
