Greer sparks outrage over claim of ‘Concentration Camp Reform Plan’
Ross Greer was yesterday told to apologize over claims that Reform UK is planning ‘real concentration camps’ for migrants.
The co-leader of Scotland’s Greens branded Nigel Farage’s party “evil” for proposing to build secure detention centers for those awaiting deportation in Green voting areas.
Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Tory candidate for Eastwood, and home to Scotland’s largest Jewish community, said: ‘Ross Greer should apologize for his offensive choice of words.
“Given the deep anxiety that Jewish communities are currently experiencing, politicians have a duty to be sensitive and responsible – especially those in a party with such a dubious record on anti-Semitism as the Greens, the only party that has shamefully refused to accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.”
Zack Polanski, the leader of the Greens in England and Wales, apologized last week for his response to the stabbing of two Jewish people in Golders Green, London.
Polanski said he acted “in haste” when he shared a post on social media criticizing police for “kicking a mentally ill man in the head” during the arrest of the suspected attacker.
Mr Greer made his comments while promoting his predecessor Lorna Slater as the Green candidate in Edinburgh Central and said she was on the verge of defeating SNP constitution secretary Angus Robertson, ending his Holyrood career.
Ross Greer has been criticized for claiming that the reforms are planning ‘real concentration camps’
Zack Polanski, the leader of the Greens in England and Wales, apologized last week for his response to the stabbing of two Jewish people in London.
He said: ‘Where people have entered our communities – whether as immigrants or asylum seekers – they should be in actual housing, not confined to hotels or, as Reform proposes, in actual concentration camps.’
Asked about referring to “concentration camps” given the Nazi association, he added: “There is a difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp, an extermination camp.” Obviously these are different things.
‘Britain invented concentration camps during the Boer War. What Reform proposes is a concentration camp, where you hold and concentrate a group of people. That’s bad and really bad politics – especially in an area where people vote in ways that Reform and Nigel Farage don’t like. But that is exactly what they are proposing, and they should acknowledge that.”
The Nazis established concentration camps to house prisoners without trial, starting at Dachau, near Munich, in 1933.
Extermination camps, designed to kill millions of Jews, came later, but conditions in the concentration camps were so barbaric that about 1 million people died there.
Asked if he was trying to scare voters, Greer replied, “They [Reform] have proposed concentration camps for migrants, and have suggested doing so in areas that vote for the Greens and for parties they don’t like.
‘That’s straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook. It is up to them to defend such threatening voters.’
Glasgow Reform councilor Thomas Kerr said: ‘Ross Greer and his merry band of idiots are constantly telling us how loving and warm these illegals are, so I’m confused why he now believes we are trying to ‘intimate’ voters? Could it be that he’s the classic weak, woke Leftie who preaches: Do as I say, not as I do?’