Green Party leader Zack Polanski is driving his followers wild, and that’s worrying (Image: Getty)
Mad Zack is exactly the kind of figure who emerges in periods of political volatility. Slick, glib, extreme, opportunistic and with that wild glint in his eyes. When the political landscape shifts, chancers like this seize their moment. He’s an attention seeker, who’s suddenly getting all the attention he ever wanted. Polanski has already upended British politics and he’s only just getting started. Just you wait.
Polanski is a knife in the heart of the Labour Party, and now he’s twisting it. He may be a vegan, but he’s serving raw red meat to left-wing activists, with a radical policy menu beyond their wildest dreams. While much of the country is furious at Sir Keir Starmer for pursuing the most left-wing agenda in our history, Labour’s grassroots think he’s an establishment sellout. They want more tax, more spending, more borrowing and then more tax. Staying out of the Iran conflict isn’t enough to impress the Greens. They’d rather start one with Israel. And they’re about to eat Labour alive in Thursday’s elections.
The Greens aren’t in office, but they’re growing in power by the day. As a result, Labour will feel obliged to become even more left-wing, to prevent still more voters drifting away. And we’ll all pay the price.
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Long-term Green Party members don’t know what’s hit them. They’re urgently warning us against Polanski but it’s too late. He’s running the show now. Since September, party membership has surged from 68,000 to more than 200,000, making it the third-largest party by membership. But this is not a new movement. It’s a recycled one. They’re the same hard-left cranks and activists who flooded into Labour under leftie hero Jeremy Corbyn.
It’s the usual placard-waving, Israel-hating, pink-haired rabble, but even angrier than before. They’re angry about Starmer. Angry about the wealthy. Angry about gender politics. And they’re really, really angry about a certain country in the Middle East, with many party members caught posting antisemitic content online. It’s a terrifying time for our country.
Starmer fought to purge the Corbynite faction from Labour. Now they’re plotting revenge. Labour isn’t worried about Reform UK’s Nigel Farage anymore. Zack is the man who’s taking their votes, and it terrifies them. He should terrify the rest of us too.
Polanski isn’t constrained by power. He doesn’t have to govern, so he can escalate. He’ll happily slight two unarmed police officers who put their lives on the line tackling a knife-wielding fanatic in Golders Green, knowing his base will love him for it.
Why hold back? We live in divisive times, and being divisive is working out very nicely for him.
The Green Party’s political programme is insane. Quit Nato, ditch our nuclear deterrent, make friends with Vladimir Putin, throw open UK borders, ban North Sea drilling, legalise drugs, hand everyone a basic universal income and nationalise everything in sight. Perhaps most terrifying of all, Polanski has handed a platform for Islamist anti-semitism.
Even a sniff of that agenda would push the UK to the brink, and trigger an outright bond market crisis. Polanski doesn’t care. He won’t hold back. This extremist is driving the UK towards a cliff, and here’s the scariest bit. He’s loving every minute of it.
