Zack Polanski suggests France isn't a safe country before demanding Britons pay £500m to help migrants in 'unusual' Christmas message

Zack Polanski suggests France isn't a safe country before demanding Britons pay £500m to help migrants in 'unusual' Christmas message

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has suggested France is not a safe country for illegal migrants and demanded taxpayers cough up almost £500million to help asylum seekers feel more comfortable in an "unusual" Christmas message to the nation.Mr Polanski, who was accused of being disrespectful after releasing his message at the same time as the King's Speech, filmed his message after visiting migrant camps in Calais. The Green Party leader met wit…

Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care

Zack Polanski issued a Christmas message yesterday that demanded the country solve the problem of small boats crossing the English Channel. As he pointed out, quite fairly, France is not a safe place for those refugees seeking asylum in the UK. It is deliberately inhospitable, a circumstance that we in the UK help to fund. In addition, to have a chance of seeking asylum in this country, which is a person’s legal right, we require desperate peopl…