Oxford-educated billionaire-owned newspaper editor warns Greens will ‘destroy London’

Alys Denby, editor of billionaire-owned City AM, told billionaire-owned Times Radio she was upset at being forced to vote Labour to keep the “extremist” Greens out.

The Greens will be beside themselves with grief, no doubt. Here is the full commentary from 1 May:

Proud Conservative @alysdenby has proclaimed she’s voting Labour and calls for other London Tories to do the same.

She believes Labour are the “lesser of two evils” when it comes to the Greens. pic.twitter.com/lZ72OEN7Sv

— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) May 1, 2026

Denby said:

I am going to vote Labour at the upcoming local elections. I hate myself for it, but where I live in south London people don’t know what is good for them so they tend not to vote Conservative.

She went on:

It’s a marginal between Labour and the Greens and considering who is the lesser of two evils, I have to vote Labour. The Greens…. are not some sort of crusty cute hippies that people think, that just care about nature. They are extremists, and their policies would destroy London faster than carpet bombing.

Faster than carpet bombing…

Denby then launched into a purely ideological attack on Green leader Polanski and the party’s policies, singling out rent controls as:

the worst policy in the world.

Erm…

Granted, it probably is if you are a member or pal of the landlord schema. Which Denby may well be, given her politics and class background…

The Greens boiling billionaire piss

But what could the Oxford and City University-educated editor of a newspaper owned by the super wealthy possibly have against the mild reformism of the Green Party?

According to the fact-checker Factually, the current Green manifesto is offering:

an overlapping set of priorities: tackling the cost-of-living crisis, delivering an accelerated green transition, building large-scale social housing, and protecting public services and human rights — with variations and local emphases across UK, Welsh, Scottish, and borough platforms.

And locally the party’s manifesto aims to:

amplify community wealth-building, tenants’ rights and council-level powers, while the party’s internal policy process and recent conference decisions shape what ends up in each document.

All sound like pretty standard old-fashioned social democratic stuff to us. And not a single mention of carpet-bombing London.

To our knowledge, Polanski and Mothin Ali lack access to a fleet of bombers. Though they could feasibly pop up to RAF Fairford and ask Keir Starmer’s mates in the US Air Force for a quick borrow of a B-1 between UK-enabled strikes on Iranian civilians. I’m sure they’d be accommodated.

The bottom line is this: the Canary knows as well as anybody the Greens aren’t perfect — far from it. We report their fuck-ups regularly. But the kind of hyperbolic, bad-faith garbage delivered by Denby — presumably a very accomplished journalist — could be read as a disgrace to the profession.

We detest the super-wealthy. We’ll say it with our chests. Those who hate low and middle-income families — and loathe the idea of them getting a bit of rent control, or healthcare or a bit of say in their communities — should just come out and say it too.

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