Or could it make you question the party?
I’ve always had a lot of sympathy for the Greens, but Zack Polanski has more than once”embellished” his background
The Green Party leader said on his official campaign website in 2020 that he was “currently working at the Ministry of Justice on their training & diversity programmes
However the MoJ has no record of Mr Polanski ever working for the department. When asked about the claim, a spokesman for Mr Polanski said he had worked for the “justice assessment committee”, which he described as “a programme to improve the diversity of justice appointments based in the MoJ”
Aye, right
When challenged over the discrepancies, the Green Party leader eventually admitted that, rather than working at the Ministry of Justice, he had been hired through an agency that supplied actors for role-play scenarios to a quango responsible for interviewing would-be judges. As part of the recruitment process, judicial candidates take part in mock courtroom exercises in which actors play criminals, prison guards and lawyers
Does that qualify Hugh Grant to be Prime Minister? (Love Actually)
Then there was his British Red Cross claim
On the eve of the local elections, Mr Polanski admitted that, despite repeatedly claiming otherwise while campaigning for elected office, he had never in fact been a “spokesperson” for the British Red Cross.
Not to mention all that obscurity over Rachel Reeves background as an Economist at the Bank of England when BBC2 revealed
Rachel Reeves's banking background has faced scrutiny following claims of exaggerated CV details and an alleged investigation into her expenses at HBOS (2006–2009). Investigations suggest she worked as a retail banking manager rather than an economist during that time
Are they taking us for mugs?
I remember a candidate for a teaching post many years ago. When we found that his CV did not stack up, he was politely shown the door.
But not our political leaders it seems.
