Still Thinking of Voting Green? Meet the Councillor Who Called David Lammy a “Coconut” and the Argentinian Who Believes Britain Should Hand Back the Falklands
A Green Party election candidate allegedly used the racial slur “coconuts” to describe Justice Secretary David Lammy and former Home Secretary Priti Patel. The Mail on Sundayhas the story.
Hau-Yu Tam, deputy leader of the Greens in Lewisham, South East London, also backed a campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s terror group list and shared social media posts that branded Zionism – support for the state of Israel – “the Nazism of our time”.
An MoS investigation can reveal that Ms Tam is one of a string of Green candidates standing at next month’s local elections who have made deeply offensive comments or have highly questionable pasts, including criminal convictions.
Our audit discovered one candidate in London boasted of storming Stansted Airport and blocking an aircraft from deporting 25 criminals, including a murderer and child rapist, and another threw orange powder over a £300,000 garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Others contesting council seats next month have defended the vandalism of Winston Churchill’s statue or peddled conspiracy theories, including a candidate who questioned whether a drone attack on an RAF base was a so-called “false flag” attack.
The revelations come as the Greens are expected to win hundreds of council seats at the May 7th elections, with one poll last month even putting the far-Left party ahead of Labour.
The MoS can reveal that Ms Tam, described as “brilliant” by Green leader Zack Polanski when she defected from Labour last year, lambasted Mr Lammy after he reportedly told ministers he has a family member who is on benefits when they probably should not be.
Hau-Yu Tam (pictured left, with party leader Zack Polanski), deputy leader of the Greens
Writing on X last year, Ms Tam said: “It’s reminiscent of Priti Patel admitting her family wouldn’t get in under her own immigration rules, but somehow even more callous. These coconuts.” The post was later deleted.
Coconut is a highly offensive racial slur, meaning that someone is black or brown on the outside and white on the inside. …
Would-be local politicians identified by the MoS audit include Jo Dowbor, who is fighting to win a seat in Islington, North London.
Jo Dowbor (pictured right, with Jeremy Corbyn), who grew up in Argentina and is fighting to win a seat in Islington, North London
Ms Dowbor grew up in Argentina and appears to back Buenos Aires’ claim over the Falkland Islands, reposting a picture on social media of a football fan wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “The Malvinas [Argentina’s name for the Falklands] belong to Argentina.” …
Other candidates can be revealed as eco-fanatics involved in some of the most notorious protests of the past decade.
Ed Thacker, a psychotherapist and self-proclaimed “anarchist”, who is standing in Haringey, North London, received a suspended jail sentence in 2016 after he and 12 others cut through a fence at Heathrow Airport and chained themselves together on one of the runways. The protest caused 25 flights to be cancelled and resulted in “immense” costs. …
Stephanie Golder, a candidate in Tower Hamlets, East London, was one of three Just Stop Oil activists who threw orange powder across a prize-winning display garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2023.
Later that year, she received a six-month suspended prison sentence after she was part of a group that caused £100,000 of damage at a service station on the M25.
She is not the only candidate who seemingly regards vandalism as a legitimate form of protest.
Zoe Garbett, a London Assembly member and the Greens’ mayoral candidate in Hackney, provoked uproar last month when she appeared to justify an attack on the statue of Winston Churchill.
Ms Garbett dismissed the outcry over the vandalism as “over-reach and hysteria pushed by the Right”. …
Meanwhile, other would-be Green politicians have pushed wild conspiracy theories.
TV producer Mark Adderley, a candidate in Croydon, South London, regularly rants about Israel on his YouTube channel alongside his wife, Nadia Sawalha, a presenter on ITV’s Loose Women.
After a kamikaze drone – believed to have been fired by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon – struck a British base in Cyprus in March, Mr Adderley released a video entitled ‘Could drone attack on RAF be Israeli false flag?’
“The Western Zionist-supporting, Israeli-complicit media and governments are all going to say, ‘Well, it must have come from Hezbollah,’” he added. …
Meanwhile, despite repeated allegations of anti-Israeli bias and editorial failures at the BBC, Karishma Patel, who is standing in Brent, North London, quit her job as a journalist over what she described as the corporation’s “failure to hold Israel to account”.
I think there was a brief period of several years when the British were absent, during which time Argentina said it was theirs, but they never actually went there.
Not really. The islands were discovered and settled by Spain. The Spanish later left. And came back. And then, Britain conquered the Falklands at about the time South America became independent from Spain. They’re a former Spanish possession Brtiain took by force and Argentinian political leaders claim to want to have whenever they seek to stir up shit to distract from political problems at home because they’re within their reach.
They’re also settled by Brits who repeatedly expressed their desire to remain British.
I must admit I just don’t get the whole thing.
Why is Argentina so desperate to own the Falklands?
Don’t they have enough land?
Is not having those islands what’s missing from them becoming a land of milk and honey?
The “Sea Lion” oilfield might be a factor – unless the Greens take over Argentina. However, if Net Zero collapses, there could be a British oil industry down there, with a financial interest, if the Falkland islands are still British.
I still don’t know why Middle Eastern politics is so important to Green party members. Again, I ask where are the previous leaders of the party, Jonathan Bartley, Caroline Lucas and even the current leader in Parliament Carla Denyer. Why aren’t we hearing from them about green issues that were so important a few years ago, rather than the current bunch of militant Islamists? And how does a self confessed anarchist stand for any kind of political party in any kind of democratic election, even for local government, when it is an anathema to their philosophy?
Democracy is indeed an anathema to them and their aim is to destroy it from within, emulating their crypto-hero, the little guy with the moustache who was building autobahns. As soon as he was in power, he demolished democracy and introduced tyranny. Exactly what the Greens intend to do – dismantle the state and build formally the caliphate (hang on a sec, isn’t that what The Trio are doing?)
They definitely are the water-melon tendril (off-shoot) of the Greens. It reminds me of my butternut squash plant, spreading rampantly all over the place with no discernible direction.
They wither at the first sign of a cold spell.
Pete Sutton
11 hours ago
How did he lunatics currently in chargeof the Green Party get to be its leaders? Did the members elect them? Have the members abandoned environmentalism?
The Green party is really the globalist party, with an individual branch in every major country. They’re always in favour of The Current Thing™, whatever that happens to be. Eg, Annalena Baerbock, former Green German foreign secretary went into an election on a “No arms sales to countries in crisis zones!” and became one of the most pro-Ukrainian “Give them more weapons!” hawks in German when war in Ukraine became The Current Thing™.
The Green Party is definitely globalist and the tenets of Islam make it the only truly green religion. It seems to be taking a long time for this to sink in. Eventually the polarisation of woke and fundamentalism will collapse under the distortion of its own incongruity. Maybe at that point it will fail. We can only hope.
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the Argentinian Who Believes Britain Should Hand Back the Falklands
The Falkland Islands never belonged to Argentina, and thus it’s impossible to hand them back to Argentina.
I think there was a brief period of several years when the British were absent, during which time Argentina said it was theirs, but they never actually went there.
Well I saw a posh car recently. Unused for days. I said it was mine but the owner disagreed.
Not really. The islands were discovered and settled by Spain. The Spanish later left. And came back. And then, Britain conquered the Falklands at about the time South America became independent from Spain. They’re a former Spanish possession Brtiain took by force and Argentinian political leaders claim to want to have whenever they seek to stir up shit to distract from political problems at home because they’re within their reach.
They’re also settled by Brits who repeatedly expressed their desire to remain British.
The Spanish conquered Argentina – that’s the way the world works and we are where we are.
No, they didn’t. Argentina was one of the states which got established after the inhabitants of Spanis America had won there war(s) of independence.
Not that I understand why you’re mentioning this here.
I must admit I just don’t get the whole thing.
Why is Argentina so desperate to own the Falklands?
Don’t they have enough land?
Is not having those islands what’s missing from them becoming a land of milk and honey?
The “Sea Lion” oilfield might be a factor – unless the Greens take over Argentina. However, if Net Zero collapses, there could be a British oil industry down there, with a financial interest, if the Falkland islands are still British.
Oil, our Ed has decided not to pump, but Argentinians can’t wait to drill.
I still don’t know why Middle Eastern politics is so important to Green party members. Again, I ask where are the previous leaders of the party, Jonathan Bartley, Caroline Lucas and even the current leader in Parliament Carla Denyer. Why aren’t we hearing from them about green issues that were so important a few years ago, rather than the current bunch of militant Islamists? And how does a self confessed anarchist stand for any kind of political party in any kind of democratic election, even for local government, when it is an anathema to their philosophy?
Democracy is indeed an anathema to them and their aim is to destroy it from within, emulating their crypto-hero, the little guy with the moustache who was building autobahns. As soon as he was in power, he demolished democracy and introduced tyranny. Exactly what the Greens intend to do – dismantle the state and build formally the caliphate (hang on a sec, isn’t that what The Trio are doing?)
They definitely are the water-melon tendril (off-shoot) of the Greens. It reminds me of my butternut squash plant, spreading rampantly all over the place with no discernible direction.
They wither at the first sign of a cold spell.
How did he lunatics currently in chargeof the Green Party get to be its leaders? Did the members elect them? Have the members abandoned environmentalism?
They abandoned environmentalism the day they backed renewables. They abandoned the poor the same day.
The Green party is really the globalist party, with an individual branch in every major country. They’re always in favour of The Current Thing™, whatever that happens to be. Eg, Annalena Baerbock, former Green German foreign secretary went into an election on a “No arms sales to countries in crisis zones!” and became one of the most pro-Ukrainian “Give them more weapons!” hawks in German when war in Ukraine became The Current Thing™.
^^
“No arms sales to countries in crisis zones” platform,
The Green Party is definitely globalist and the tenets of Islam make it the only truly green religion. It seems to be taking a long time for this to sink in. Eventually the polarisation of woke and fundamentalism will collapse under the distortion of its own incongruity. Maybe at that point it will fail. We can only hope.
Having got that out of the way the MSM will spend the next 4 weeks slagging off Reform because a candidate sneezed but did not apologise.