A Green councillor in Worcestershire has quit after growing unhappy with party boss Zack Polanski’s leadership.
Councillor Martin Allen defected to the Liberal Democrats, after saying the Green Party leader was “not fit to be our prime minister”.
He said Polanski had shown “poor judgement” on a number of issues, including his reaction to the jailing of four Palestine Action activists who caused £1.2m of damage at a UK site of an Israel-based defence firm.
A spokesperson for the Green Party said they were “sorry” to lose Allen, adding it had “seen councillors joining us in droves in recent months from other parties”. They did not comment on Allen’s criticisms of Polanski himself.
Allen said the leader had been wrong to have claimed he was a spokesperson for the British Red Cross, something he later apologised for.
He also said he made his mind up to defect after Polanski’s response to the jailing of the four Palestine Action activists, who caused the damage at a factory near Bristol.
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