Reform UK has vowed that the "obsessed" Greens "would destroy this country if they ever got close to power" after their co-leaders claimed that Nigel Farage's party will "soon crash and disappear like the BNP".
Kicking off their local elections campaign today, Green co-chief Adrian Ramsay laid siege to "far-right" Reform with a series of savage barbs.
Reform UK uses the "politics of fear to divide our communities", he said, and claimed it wants to "privatise our NHS".
He added: "Reform has no track record of delivering at any level of government. Reform's trying to make gains on the back of a weak and lacklustre political old guard.
Reform UK has vowed that the 'obsessed' Greens 'would destroy this country if they ever got close to power'
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"Yes, they shout the loudest - I think we can all agree on that. But when it comes to getting anything done, offering any real solutions, Reform's rhetoric evaporates.
"And they will soon crash back to reality and disappear into the aether like Ukip and the BNP before them," Ramsay exclaimed.
But now, Reform has hit back - a spokesman told GB News: "All the Greens have is lies and misinformation. The NHS will always be free under a Reform Government.
"The Green Party would destroy this country if they ever got close to power. Whilst the Greens obsess over us from the sidelines, we are focused on winning seats and changing the country for the better."
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'All the Greens have is lies and misinformation,' a Reform spokesman told GB News
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The Greens' attack on Reform's NHS stance comes just days after Labour did the same - which is reportedly a campaign dreamt up by Labour Together think tank chief Jonathan Ashworth.
Ashworth's researchers were said to have identified the NHS as Farage's "Achilles Heel" - and as a result, when Reform launched its own local elections campaign in Birmingham, a series of Reform-NHS attack ads began springing up online and across the city.
Some read: "Can't pay? He'll take it away!" - while others quote Farage's vow to introduce an insurance-based set-up to Britain's health service.
Red Wall Labour MPs including Dover & Deal's Mike Tapp soon came out to back the ads, and branded Reform "a risk to hard-working people and our precious NHS".
Lee Anderson called the NHS ads 'pure desperation from Labour'
GETTYBut a few days later, Reform hit back - and the party's chief whip Lee Anderson told GB News: "It's pure desperation from Labour who are running scared of Reform UK - who will demolish the Red Wall at the next election.
"They can attack us all they like but what can they attack us on? They can't blame us for anything. Roll on May 1."
"Labour has resorted to telling lies," a Reform source claimed of the NHS attacks.
"Reform will always keep the NHS free at the point of use. The NHS is broken and Reform will fix it."
