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Green Party chief Zack Polanski has mentioned almost £500 million ought to be used to finish the “cruel” therapy of migrants at Calais.

In a Christmas video set to be launched at 3pm on Thursday, when King Charles delivers his message, Mr Polanski will attraction for £476 million of taxpayers’ cash at the moment being spent on “cruelty” to go in direction of a brand new system based mostly on “compassion, kindness and humanity”.

Some social media customers took purpose on the former hypnotist, who helps abolishing the monarchy, for releasing his message concurrently His Majesty.

Mr Polanski is ready to speak a few three-day go to to Calais he made within the run-up to the festive interval the place he’ll say he witnessed French police, paid for by British taxpayers, slashing tents and confiscating wooden utilized by sheltering migrants to maintain heat.

The Green chief will say: “This has to stop – the constant political rhetoric and demonisation of people who are just trying to survive in unimaginable living conditions. I don’t believe we’re the country who the media paint us to be. I don’t believe that we’re cruel and heartless. And I don’t believe that if people saw what I’ve seen in recent days, they would turn away.”

He will add: “We should be diverting that money to a humanitarian and compassionate response. The rhetoric we hear about ‘stopping the boats’ and ‘smashing the gangs’ – none of this is working.”

Acknowledging his “unusual” Christmas message, he will even name for donations to the Calais Appeal, a bunch of organisations working to assist migrants within the neighborhood of the port.

His message comes as debate has ramped up this yr across the UK’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in relation to immigration circumstances within the UK.

Both the Conservatives and Reform UK have mentioned they might give up the conference in an effort to deal with immigration.

More than 41,000 folks having now crossed the English Channel in small boats this yr.