Green Party chief Zack Polanski (Image: Getty)
The Greens have come underneath hearth from a Tory by-election candidate over their controversial coverage to legalise medication. Charlotte Cadden, who’s standing for the Conservatives in Gorton and Denton, warned the plan – which has additionally been criticised by Reform UK and Labour – dangers extra drug deaths.
Her feedback come as campaigning for the crunch by-election is in its closing 48 hours. The former police officer mentioned: “The thing I do mention quite a bit on the doorstep is the Greens’ policy of legalising things like heroin and crack cocaine because that is not what an area like Gorton and Denton needs.
“You begin placing insurance policies like that in place, you may see what occurred in Scotland which was the European drug demise capital, they’ve began to legalise these drug taking rooms and drug deaths have gone up. This stuff is simply not effectively thought by and would not work.”
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She also hit out at the Green Party’s leaflets and video in Urdu calling on Muslim voters to “punish Labour for Gaza”.
Ms Cadden said: “I’d simply ask that folks think about what different issues they need their native politicians to be targeted on which might be the variety of college locations, the actual fact we do not need our kids indoctrinated in faculties with inappropriate studying materials and being advised they’re born within the fallacious physique, we would like jobs creating on the excessive road in order that younger folks have gotten a future. So I’d simply ask that folks think about different native points.
“We’re not going to be voting here on what happens thousands of miles away in a war zone so I think it is disappointing that the Greens have gone down that route. Whether people think that’s the best way forward for their local community is a matter for them.”
Ms Cadden rejected strategies that the by-election – which is broadly seen as a three-horse race between Reform, Labour and the Greens – reveals why the Tories have to work with Nigel Farage’s rebel get together amid fears over splitting the right-wing vote.
She mentioned: “I think Reform is a one-man band and it’s splintering on a daily basis. They don’t know their own policies if you just look at the two-child benefit cap that they’ve flip-flopped on.
“We’ve received completely different insurance policies to Reform and a distinct kind of chief who’s considerate.
“There seems to be a lot of infighting, there’s a lot of people there that wanted Kemi’s job but weren’t going to get it because she’s doing so well, they’ve jumped ship.”
Tory Gorton and Denton by-election candidate Charlotte Cadden (Image: MEN)
Ms Cadden predicted that embattled Sir Keir Starmer will keep in No 10 except at the least the native elections in May even when Labour loses the beforehand rock-solid Greater Manchester constituency on Thursday.
She mentioned: “Really who would want to take on that horrendous position of leading the Labour Party if they lose here up to major defeats at the local elections, probably nobody.
“I do not assume it issues to us who leads the Labour Party, the insurance policies are all fallacious. I feel we’re on 16 U-turns to this point.”
Labour won the seat with a majority of 13,413 at the 2024 general election, with Reform second and the Greens third.
Speaking during a visit to the constituency today, Mr Polanski insisted the “battle on medication” had failed and his party was talking about taking a “public well being” method to the difficulty.
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