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Green Party candidate: ‘Jewish Nazis’ are ‘money grubbing thieves’
(www.jewishnews.co.uk)
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I hate to deflect with procedure, but Polanski genuinely has little-to-no power in deciding or suspending candidates. The disciplinary process is laid out here. Given the Newcastle Greens said they applied to the GPC (Green Party Council, I think the article got this wrong) that likely means they applied for a no-fault suspension, which would get this person immediately barred from all party activities. This is the same process as when the Brighton Greens suspended Tony Greenstein.
No, you make a completely fair point. All kinds of abuses are possible if the leader can unilaterally suspend people, so it's quite right that Polanski not have that power.
That said, I think it's okay for him to make it clear that he generally supports suspending people for this kind of thing and I also think he should rebuke Mothin Ali for undermining the process.
Yeah, it'd be nice if Polanski could come out with a stronger statement about antisemitic candidates than this. I don't know if publicly rebuking Ali is the right move though, but something should be done. One of the deputy leaders saying the disciplinary process has been weaponised and telling them to seek legal advice (TERF tactics) while they have ongoing cases just isn't a very good look.
It's just bad comms, really. Who is that 'it's just a handful' comment for? What does it say that isn't already implicit? It does nothing to address people's concerns.