Green councillor Anne Cross, for Heathfield and Mayfield on Wealden District Council, boasted at a recent 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.”
So continues the tragicomic farce of the Green Party (led locally by deputy party leader Rachel Millward) attempting to deal with intense local anger at the installation of hundreds of male asylum seekers at a local training camp site. The satire books will have to be rewritten – if you own a satire book take it out and throw it in the bin…