Zack Polanski telling it like it is

As a left women it’s a hard no. He’s a misogynist who thinks GC women should be banned from conference for their “behaviour” which mainly takes the form of science and handing out leaflets.

Anyone this stupid, arrogant,
misogynistic and misinformed does not deserve to be leader.

If the current Green Party did focus on the environment, then I would have a real dilemma, trying to decide whether I should vote for them despite the misogyny and rejection of the Cass Report.

With Zack as leader, it's easier to reject them. He isn't Green; he's an opportunistic politician who is just out for himself (the recent Private Eye profile was very good at revealing how he convinced 2 opposing factions in the Lib Dems that he was part of their group).

The environment was barely mentioned in his leader's speech at Conference. His pitch to members and voters is populism and trans rights.

I think this is generous and overly flattering.

100 per cent agree with the OP.

Fortunately I'm not a transphobic loon - like so many on Mumsnet.

Mainly support Green Party as Labour has back-tracked a lot on their carbon-reducing policies

Of course. But if a party of going to take a profoundly anti-science view on that one point, it raises questions over other scientific points they’re making.

Of course, what would work best is for the Greens to simply stick to environmental policies. We need strong voices on that subject in parliament. But they’ve veered off into other policies and that’s where they’ve run into trouble. I’m not voting for misogynists, nor do I tend to vote for hard left policies. Otherwise, I probably would vote Green.

I’m a woman and the mother of a daughter. Among other things, I vote for the party least likely to shit all over me and her. (Obviously, they all do to one extent or another.)

I would feel safer (as a woman) around Zack Polanski than most politicians. In addition, there are many strong women in the Greens: Carla Denyer, Sian Berry, Caroline Lucas, Ellie Chowns.
Green Party policies would do more to better the lives of women than the majority of party’s policies would.

Getting back to your original contention.........

So the millionaires leave with your encouragement. How are you going to plug the huge financial hole?

It’s a question of balance in the world isn’t it. You can denounce a whole party’s politics over one element or you could think, well, on balance let’s take the climate and inequality seriously first and foremost.

His background is hardly poor, working class, 🤷‍♀️

There is a massive housing crisis but sure let’s scream ‘communism’ every time someone proposes dealing with it.

This and their stance on having nuclear weapons concerns me.

Id be all for getting rid of nukes one day, if the whole world does, but not unilaterally.

He’s right on some things, like billionaires and the environment of course.

Also, @Daygloboo, you
might want to follow the Green Women Declaration. I think you’d be interested in what they have to say and agree with much of it.

Polanski banned them from the Green Party Conference.

www.greenwomensdeclaration.uk/

Why do we have single sex spaces? Because men as a class are a danger to women as a class, and we have no way of knowing which men are a danger, so we keep them all out.

Men as a class don’t stop being a danger because they identify as trans. Those men who identify as trans don’t stop being men. So we keep them out
of female spaces.

(Plus privacy and dignity, of course.)

Zack would consider what you just said to be transphobic and horrific. He wants you to forget those men are men and step aside for them, and while you’re at it, keep your mouth shut about any concerns you might have.

Did you know that, given the tiny number of men who identify as trans, that a disproportionate number of them are in prison for sex offences?

It's funny until you realise that it's men like this who are in charge and have significant influence and power.

It's interesting in your earlier posts you talk about wanting to support trans people while still believing that women should have access to their single sex spaces. And you're very clear on the fact that not all trans people are bad.

You don't give women the same generosity with your assumptions. You made several sweeping statements about the terrible GC women and what they believe. Perhaps you might like to consider that there are many, many GC women who would be happy to support trans people if they weren't constantly trying to invade single sex spaces or claiming other hard-won rights (such as female spaces in a male-dominated environment, eg).

GC women are pissed off and frustrated because as a sex class, we are never anyone's priority. We are always expected to shuffle over and make room.

You say that Zack Polankski doesn't hate women and you believe that he is interested in women's rights. Funny though, he's not really talking about that. Not ever. He's not talking about the difficulties that women have had to deal with or the lack of equality. But he is REALLY concerned about men from his own community - the LGBTQ community which prioritises biological men. He's certainly talking a lot about the horrific Equality Act and the bigoted women who want to be safe from rapey men in single sex spaces. No condemnation for the rapey men, just the women who want to be safe.

We know that the number of trans people who want to rape or assault us is in the minority. But the same goes for anyone with a male body. The majority wouldn't hurt us. But we keep ALL of them out because it's impossible to tell - and that logic holds for the biological men in the trans community too.

It really is wearing trying to have to constantly explain such a basic tenet and to have to ask others to give women such a very minimal level of respect. It's even more wearing when you watch people like Polanski bend over backwards to accommodate and placate the very people who want to trample on women's rights.

This is why so many women on this thread are telling you the Green party is problematic.

And that's sickening really when many of us would like to give them our vote.

It's not funny in the slightest. He's a misogynist.

I assume from your name that you're male, so it's easy to make evidence-free assumptions like that one when it has no effect on you.

He thinks women have no right to their own spaces or sports, so how do you think he'd be "protecting" us?

He's a repellent, financially illiterate, misogynistic, dangerous loon.

Mad as a box of frogs.