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Zia Yusuf claims the Green Party has been captured by people with Islamist ideology and says their leader Zack Polanski was trying to build a coalition between them and the far left. He says Polanski has lost control of the Green Party and the "crash out" will end up being studied Report by Aslams. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Look, it's been clear that the Green Party has been absolutely captured by, sadly, in many cases, people with Islamist
00:07ideology.
00:08It was always a very unstable coalition that Polanski was trying to build between the far left and, as I
00:17said, frankly, people who subscribe to Islamist ideology.
00:21And I think Polanski has actually lost control of the Green Party.
00:24And in fact, you know, I remember it was not that long ago he emerged from pretty much nowhere and,
00:29to be fair, did carry the Green Party up five, eight, maybe even ten points in the polls.
00:33At one point, there were a few polls that showed them ahead of Labour.
00:37But actually, I'm afraid the, well, I think probably good for the country, but the Zach Polanski crash out will
00:43probably end up being studied, which is quite something.
00:46Yet another embarrassment for the British government that the Americans no longer feel like their bombers are safe at RAF
00:54Fairford.
00:55Look, I don't have enough information to be able to tell you exactly what has happened.
01:00It is clear that something very, very serious has happened and is happening.
01:06And this is the latest embarrassment.
01:08You know, our military was unable to deploy a destroyer in any sensible time frame.
01:13It took weeks to deploy it when our sovereign territory was hit by the Iranians in Cyprus.
01:19Look, our military has been catastrophically underfunded, first by the Tories, now by Labour.
01:25There's no real sign that Labour are changing this.
01:27They've got a chancellor who, remember, resigned from a different position on principle because Labour weren't spending enough on defence.
01:35And there's no sign that he's actually going to be getting to the number that he himself resigned over.
01:40So the whole thing is a farce. It's unsurprising.
01:43Reform will dramatically increase our defence spending.
01:47We think that having a strong, powerful military is vitally important for any number of serious threats in this country.
01:54One last thing I want to say is that we know we know that agents, operators operating at the behest
02:01of the Iranian regime are entering this country via boat, via the channel illegally.
02:07And what's happening? Instead of securing our border and eliminating that threat, at least in terms of new people coming,
02:14we're seeing police escorts being laid on for such people by this Andy Burnham government.
02:19The whole thing is twisted and it's a disgrace.
02:22Well, this is the same Conservative Party who had power, let's not forget, for 14 years.
02:26We haven't forgotten that. Let's look at what they did.
02:28They crushed military spending.
02:30You know, they crushed it from about, by about 100 basis points in terms of a percentage of GDP.
02:37They hollowed out our military.
02:38They hollowed out our Navy, our Army and our Air Force.
02:41And, you know, my first question would be, in terms of a big, sophisticated Iron Dome, is does it work
02:46on dinghies?
02:48You know, that's the insane situation we have.
02:50As I said, hostile actors operating at the behest of a nation state that is effectively at war with the
02:56United Kingdom, has struck our sovereign territory.
02:57We know this is happening.
02:59The government are not denying that it's happening.
03:01And instead of securing our border, they are laying on police escorts for them.
03:04And the Tories were even worse.
03:06The Tories let in 130,000, mainly military-aged men, from countries that despise Britain over their 14 years.
03:14Even Labour haven't gotten to that number yet.
03:15So I'm afraid nothing the Tories say on this matter should be taken remotely seriously.
03:21Well, again, just look at what the Tories did when they actually had power, in some cases with walloping majorities.
03:26They could have done whatever they wanted.
03:27What did they do with taxes?
03:29They took the tax burden on working British people to the highest level since World War II.
03:33Let me say that again.
03:34They took the tax burden on British people to the highest level since World War II, all along promising to
03:41cut taxes.
03:42Just like they promised to cut immigration down to the tens of thousands in four consecutive manifestos and ended up
03:47letting in 11 million people.
03:4911 million in their 14 years.
03:51Even Jeremy Corbyn would have struggled to hit those numbers.
03:53So, look, the reality is, I want to say it again, what the Tories are doing at their conference is
03:58a group of highly deluded people essentially doing the same thing,
04:02making a whole bunch of promises with absolutely no intention of keeping them.
04:05The British people are not goldfish.
04:07They're much smarter than the Tories are.
04:10And they are not going to forget nor forgive what the Tories did to this country.

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