The Green Party has positioned itself as an alternative to Labour, arguing that the governing party has moved away from some of the values it once championed. The Greens, and their party leader Zack Polanski, have been vocal in their condemnation of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and their support for Palestinians.
This morning I saw two videos, he said. One was of an ICE agent. The woman was on the asphalt, zip-tied. He came over and zapped her, and then carried her like garbage and threw her in the back of the SUV. The second video, he continued, showed a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon that was bombed and 12 people died. And I kept thinking: they make a desolation and call it a ceasefire. Sometimes, as writers, we have to say: enough.