Why is a Green Party councillor taking her own grandchildren to give Valentine’s cards to the asylum seekers housed in the local Crowborough army camp, wonders Michael Deacon in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt:

During the Presidential election campaign of 2024, aides to Donald Trump ran into an unexpected problem. They wanted to tell voters about the maddest things that Kamala Harris, and her fellow Democrats, had said and done. Unfortunately, many of these things were so outlandishly absurd (for example, Harris’s view that the US taxpayer should fund “gender-affirming surgery” for illegal immigrants), many voters assumed that Trump’s team had made them up.

“When you outline the Democratic agenda,” sighed one Republican, “you have to water it down, because in both polling and focus groups, people just don’t believe it…”

I fear that we’re now facing a similar problem in Britain. After all, who on earth would believe that a Green Party councillor in East Sussex is getting her own grandchildren to give Valentine’s cards to the grown men housed in a local camp for asylum seekers?

It sounds far too ridiculous to be true. And yet here, in her own words, is Cllr Anne Cross, speaking at a recent council meeting. “My grandchildren and I painted some cards – Valentine’s cards – at the weekend, which we are going to be presenting to the men in the camp in Crowborough as a welcome…”

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