Watch: Greens grilled on ‘zero murders’ pledge

To the fantasy land of the Greens, where no promises are off the table — no matter how surreal. Just 48 hours after the Scottish branch embarrassed themselves over the Cass report, now it’s the turn of their London counterpart. Step forth Zoe Garbett, the party’s pink-haired nominee for the capital’s mayoralty, who is running on a platform of… ‘zero murders’. Yes, that’s right, if the Greens win, they claim they can end homicide in the capital within ten years.

Garbett was rightly grilled on her ludicrous promise last night during LBC’s ‘London Mayoral Debate’. After a somewhat incredulous Tom Swarbrick asked Garbett: ‘You’ve suggested that you would like to see no murders in London in ten years?’ the brazen-cheeked candidate replied thus:

I think we have to absolutely set what our ambitions are… All of our strategies and all of our policies aim towards that… If you don’t set a bold target, you’re not going to take the action to get there.