Green Party morons' bonkers plans for UK are pants and won’t work, says Carole Malone

It is only when elections come around that you feel compelled to look at weird, nondescript little parties like The Greens and listen to what they have to say.

The only “Green” person who’s ever been centre-stage and properly in the public eye is Caroline Lucas – the party’s only MP (Brighton Pavilion) for the past 14 years and, although nothing this head-girlish woman ever said offended – or resonated – with me, she wasn’t the kind of politician you had dark thoughts about. Her motives came from a good place.

Not so the current breed of Green Party activists who are a whole different ball game. They seem beyond obsessed with the Israel/Gaza situation, they have denounced the Cass Report – remember it was the Scottish Greens’ Trans policy that wrecked the coalition and sent the Scottish government into chaos. And in its ‘maternity’ policy it’s now advocating “natural” childbirth and promising to reduce Caesarean sections. One wonders if they realise it was this kind of thinking that led to the deaths of 300 babies and 12 mums at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust?

The Greens insist that childbirth should always be a non-medical event which is not only stupid, it’s downright dangerous. Most mums-to-be would love the childbirth process NOT to involve medical intervention, but sometimes medicine has to intervene or mums and babies die.

But the big shocker is the antisemitism that’s currently running rife through the party, and 20 of their candidates are being investigated over vile and disturbing antisemitic social media posts suggesting the October 7 attack was planned by Israel. They also compared Zionism to cancer.

Maybe it’s this hateful racism and/or her Party’s nut-job policies the Greens also want free school meals for all children – even those of the super-rich) that is forcing Lucas to resign after the election. She says 14 years fighting the Tories has left her exhausted and even though she hasn’t fully decided what comes next, she’s going to “reconnect with Nature” (of course she is) and she’s training to be an end-of-life doula – basically a care worker who sees to the needs of people nearing death.

It’s a job that shouldn’t be sneered at because it’s a noble one few have the courage for.

But is Lucas leaving because she’s “exhausted”, or it because she sees the party that used to be about protecting the land and sea for nature, that championed regenerative farming and fought to save the bees and the hedgehogs is now a bile spewing hard-left activist group that would be willing to put mothers and babies at risk because of its loony beliefs about childbirth.

Whatever you think about what Caroline Lucas says, she’s a smart, principled woman who knows that to be at the heart of change you have to have power. But she’s willingly giving up the Greens only parliamentary seat to go off and “reconnect with Nature”.

I suspect part of that is because she sees the Greens as an increasingly irrelevant party that is spewing out fantastical policies which people are either laughing at or horrified by.

A case in point is its manifesto promise to enforce a wealth tax. Have they actually done any research into wealth taxes? Don’t they know that many of the OECD countries that employed them have since had to repeal them because the administration costs far outweighed the revenue raised? This has happened in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg and France.

More importantly, wealth taxes stifle ambition and drive away investment.

But, hey, Britain’s insignificant Greens think they can make it work where almost every other country has failed.

We also now see that its Net-Zero plans wouldn’t just be paid for by the super-rich, the burden would also have to be borne by ordinary people who simply can’t afford it.

Even the Institute for Fiscal Studies today put a dampener on the its spending plans, saying: “The Green Party has set out a vision which would see the size of the state increase on an unprecedented scale: by the end of the next parliament they want to increase taxes by over £170billion per year to fund a £160billion boost to day-to-day public service spending. They also plan to spend an additional £90billion a year on capital spending.

“Even taking their figures at face value, overall borrowing would end up around £80 billion a year higher and we could expect debt to be rising throughout the next Parliament.”

Put simply, the IFS is saying the Greens’ plans are pants and won’t work.

Nor will all their other plans for “Real Hope, Real Change”. They advocate uncontrolled immigration, yet repeatedly try to block housing developments. Worse they have become a magnet for pro-Palestinian protests who think Hamas are the good guys.

Is it any wonder Caroline Lucas wants to get back to nature? Maybe those antisemitic morons in her party just became too much to stomach?

She ought to be comforted by the fact that most of the rest of us feel the same…