Zack Polanski was facing growing pressure to sack a senior Green councillor in London who called David Lammy a “coconut”.
Hau-Yu Tam, Deputy Leader of the Lewisham Green Group, was heavily criticised for her attack on Deputy Prime Minister Mr Lammy.
Zack Polanski was facing growing pressure to sack a senior Green councillor in London who called David Lammy a “coconut”.
Hau-Yu Tam, Deputy Leader of the Lewisham Green Group, was heavily criticised for her attack on Deputy Prime Minister Mr Lammy.
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And here is where the moderate and liberal start to eat themselves. The word was used in context and was not personal discrimination. Leaders should be should be held to high standards but they should have to be able to fight too. She is human with a choice of word that is in question. This is a low level attack and people need to stop falling for it as a call to oust.
Pick human leaders who are not for greed and corruption. Stick behind them.
Obligatory i am not suggesting candidates who are racist, sexist, take bribes etc are acceptable, just there needs to be a tolerance by the left if they want to move forward.
I hope we are much more sceptical these days of attempts to smear us. We’ve been through this recently enough.