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Zack Polanski telling it like it is

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Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 19:10

Just seen party political broadcast by the Green Party. Zack Polanski telling it like it is. Billionaires taking rhe pee out of the rest of us while they make money for doing nothing. And if we tax them we get told they' ll leave. Well good. I'll buy them a ticket and give them a map. At last a politician who isn't mealy mouthed. Am I right or am I right. Stuff Reform. Long live Zack.

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Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:31

Ddakji · 06/10/2025 20:29

Anyone who believes in self-ID is a snake oil salesman. Surely you can see that it’s profoundly anti-science which stretches credulity about anything he says?

Wel it's a GC view. That is a particular point of view.

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Ddakji · 06/10/2025 20:29

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:23

I rthonk that's a bit cynical. I think he is more sincere than that. You might not agree with some policies, but where does he come across as a charlatan?.. I dont see any evidence of that..He's a little awkward in his delivery perhaps..but not, imo, a snake oil salesman..

Anyone who believes in self-ID is a snake oil salesman. Surely you can see that it’s profoundly anti-science which stretches credulity about anything he says?

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:29

SpidersAreShitheads · 06/10/2025 20:13

This is a good point.

Ironically he’s doing the same as Farage - both of them have policies that are economically and practically unviable but as they’ve never even had a whiff of power they can just make up ideology to suit their demographic.

A party that consistently refuses to consider the safety and dignity of women is a party that’s content to prop up misogyny. On that basis, I wouldn’t vote for the Greens if you paid me.

Equally though, I’d never vote for Farage either. Reform are vile.

I’m a left-leaning voter that’s politically lost, like many other women.

I know many women who would vote Green if it weren’t for their inherent misogyny. Such a wasted opportunity. Same as Lib Dems. In a time when the two main parties are such a state, there’s a gap for a party to establish themselves - the only party who isn’t eating itself alive is bloody Reform. I don’t know what the actual fuck the left-leaning parties are up to.

Reform does eat itself alive. They lose an MP every week. I wonder how long Nadine Dorries will be around before there is some almighty bust up with Farage or that other ghastly individual st thevtop and she gets kicked out..Watch this space.

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KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 20:28

He also quoted Tony Benn in a way that showed he had no understanding of Benn's point. Oh and the hypnotherapy business? 🤮

Harriet9955 · 06/10/2025 20:24

I don't think any politician has quite got my back up as quickly as this guy ! And the way those people at conference kept giving him standing ovations for his idiotic ramblings- bunch of sheep.

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:23

GlomOfNit · 06/10/2025 20:15

Where did you get the idea that "Starmer for instance clearly cares only about what opportunities he will be offered when he leaves office- non-exec directorship at Boeing?"? What has given you the 'clear' idea that this is what he's in politics for?

ZP is a twat. He's an egotistical, self-serving twat with questionable views on women if I'm being charitable, a snake-oil career behind him (hypnoboobs ffs) and will twist in the wind to appease what he views as his core voters. Sadly the Greens are no longer about sound environmental politics and all about whichever social justice ideas are currently enjoying their 15 minutes of popularity.

I rthonk that's a bit cynical. I think he is more sincere than that. You might not agree with some policies, but where does he come across as a charlatan?.. I dont see any evidence of that..He's a little awkward in his delivery perhaps..but not, imo, a snake oil salesman..

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MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 06/10/2025 20:21

Fatcatsinspats · 06/10/2025 19:46

As he believes men can turn into women, I cannot take anything he says seriously. Then he’s also a sleaze who thinks he can inflate women’s breast size with hypnosis…

All of this. I wouldn't vote for them anyway due to the complete disregard for womens single sex spaces, but creepy Hypnotits just seals the deal really 😂

suburberphobe · 06/10/2025 20:21

would mean 17 million people would have to be re-housed by the state

Better get your tools out then tomorrow eh?

I do think the state has a responsibility to house their citizens, either by house-building or lowering taxes on home buyers. A pipe dream I know living in a capitalist society.

miraxxx · 06/10/2025 20:19

EasternStandard · 06/10/2025 19:55

He talked about requisitioning ownership, ie just stealing it back from shareholders without payment. Sounds mad.

Then again he might get younger voters.

You mean the village idiots, jew haters, trans loons and terror simps? Sure.

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 20:15

@SpidersAreShitheads - I couldn't agree more, I'm a former Green voter. They've lost me now. I even read through all the recent stuff and listened to Polanski. Nope.

GlomOfNit · 06/10/2025 20:15

FutureMarchionessOfVidal · 06/10/2025 19:53

I think he’s great.

He stands out to me as being a real politician with views & principles who’s in it because he wants to make a difference & has actual policies - as opposed to the other so called ‘politicians’ who are basically just third rate actors, corrupt grifters pretending to the gullible electorate that they have any interest in anything other than feathering their own nests.

Starmer for instance clearly cares only about what opportunities he will be offered when he leaves office- non-exec directorship at Boeing? NATO role? Mega bucks NGO like Tony Blair? The political role is just a useful stepping stone to the real money for him. That’s why he clearly cares so little about re-election prospects.

Zack on the other hand has actual views and policies and principles - whether or not one agrees with them. (I don’t agree with all of his, including the madness about women’s spaces.) He’s not all about the money and the freebies, & sadly in UK politics today that makes him very unusual.

Where did you get the idea that "Starmer for instance clearly cares only about what opportunities he will be offered when he leaves office- non-exec directorship at Boeing?"? What has given you the 'clear' idea that this is what he's in politics for?

ZP is a twat. He's an egotistical, self-serving twat with questionable views on women if I'm being charitable, a snake-oil career behind him (hypnoboobs ffs) and will twist in the wind to appease what he views as his core voters. Sadly the Greens are no longer about sound environmental politics and all about whichever social justice ideas are currently enjoying their 15 minutes of popularity.

SpidersAreShitheads · 06/10/2025 20:14

HerewardtheSleepy · 06/10/2025 20:05

Frankly I don't see a lot of difference between him and Farage. Two chancers out for themselves.

Ha! Cross-posted with you but exactly this!

SpidersAreShitheads · 06/10/2025 20:13

TinyGingerCat · 06/10/2025 20:05

He’s a horrible misogynist and has no grasp of science. It’s incredibly easy to state all the amazing stuff you’d do when you have no chance of ever being in a position of doing it, so you don’t have to provide any actual details just the soundbite headlines.

This is a good point.

Ironically he’s doing the same as Farage - both of them have policies that are economically and practically unviable but as they’ve never even had a whiff of power they can just make up ideology to suit their demographic.

A party that consistently refuses to consider the safety and dignity of women is a party that’s content to prop up misogyny. On that basis, I wouldn’t vote for the Greens if you paid me.

Equally though, I’d never vote for Farage either. Reform are vile.

I’m a left-leaning voter that’s politically lost, like many other women.

I know many women who would vote Green if it weren’t for their inherent misogyny. Such a wasted opportunity. Same as Lib Dems. In a time when the two main parties are such a state, there’s a gap for a party to establish themselves - the only party who isn’t eating itself alive is bloody Reform. I don’t know what the actual fuck the left-leaning parties are up to.

LooseCanyon · 06/10/2025 20:12

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:06

What, like Reform.you mean

Yes. Exactly like Reform.

Even Labour has found that it's very easy to say "We will grow the economy!", and then discover that the economy doesn't work like that.

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 20:10

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:06

What, like Reform.you mean

Yes, I suppose it's that same kind of populism. Opposite ends of the migration debate, but neither really know how it can be done.

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 20:07

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:05

Yes but when you

think just a few companies allegedly control the property portfolios of much of the housing stock in this country and that they are only answerable to shareholders, then you realise something has to be done. It's the reason your kids can't buy flats. Because the profits are bring creamed iff in astronomical service charges by greedy property companies..

I know something has to be done. I agree that something has to be done. The inequality enrages me.
However, I have not heard or read one sound policy for how the Greens intend to do that. He's just talk.

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:06

TinyGingerCat · 06/10/2025 20:05

He’s a horrible misogynist and has no grasp of science. It’s incredibly easy to state all the amazing stuff you’d do when you have no chance of ever being in a position of doing it, so you don’t have to provide any actual details just the soundbite headlines.

What, like Reform.you mean

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TinyGingerCat · 06/10/2025 20:05

He’s a horrible misogynist and has no grasp of science. It’s incredibly easy to state all the amazing stuff you’d do when you have no chance of ever being in a position of doing it, so you don’t have to provide any actual details just the soundbite headlines.

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 20:05

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 20:00

Oh yes, I absolutely agree with that. That's like saying you support the family, that children are the future and that the rich are too rich. However, they are not policies.
There is nothing realistic about his plans and how they could possibly be enacted. It's easy to tell people what they want to hear.
Supporting migration and refugees? Fine. How many? What's the policy? How do we integrate people better.
It's just yadda yadda yadda to me. I used to vote Green as well!

Yes but when you

think just a few companies allegedly control the property portfolios of much of the housing stock in this country and that they are only answerable to shareholders, then you realise something has to be done. It's the reason your kids can't buy flats. Because the profits are bring creamed iff in astronomical service charges by greedy property companies..

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HerewardtheSleepy · 06/10/2025 20:05

Frankly I don't see a lot of difference between him and Farage. Two chancers out for themselves.

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 20:03

EasternStandard · 06/10/2025 19:55

He talked about requisitioning ownership, ie just stealing it back from shareholders without payment. Sounds mad.

Then again he might get younger voters.

He can say all these things, he has absolutely no idea of how they can be enacted.
Of course he's anti Israel, that's predictable. Also, most of us would like an end to the terrible war etc.
However, not sharing intelligence with Israel? What possible good could that do?.
Nope. Not realistic in the slightest.

Memberofstaff · 06/10/2025 20:01

FKAT · 06/10/2025 19:48

We all hate rich people but they do provide employment, build businesses, create brands, pay the majority of taxes and donate to multiple good causes. We would not have free galleries, museums, universities, music venues, theatres and sports coaching without the philanthropy of the wealthy. It's incredibly naive and short sighted to start attacking billionaires. No business HAS to be based in the UK.

Greens should stick to environmental policies.

They don't pay the majority of their taxes, they PRETEND to be based here, while putting all their money offshore.

And they can afford to be bloody benevolent because they don't pay their taxes!

Views like yours really boil my piss.

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 20:00

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 19:55

That there ia greater inequality in this country now than ever. I dont believe we can all be equal, and I know you need wealth creators, but it has got ridiculous. The greed of some people now is more like a disease than judtifisble economic phenomenon.

Oh yes, I absolutely agree with that. That's like saying you support the family, that children are the future and that the rich are too rich. However, they are not policies.
There is nothing realistic about his plans and how they could possibly be enacted. It's easy to tell people what they want to hear.
Supporting migration and refugees? Fine. How many? What's the policy? How do we integrate people better.
It's just yadda yadda yadda to me. I used to vote Green as well!

LooseCanyon · 06/10/2025 19:58

He is an absolute loon, who doesn't think that women exist. But it will be fun watching him split the Left vote for those who fall for his schtick.

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 19:56

EasternStandard · 06/10/2025 19:55

He talked about requisitioning ownership, ie just stealing it back from shareholders without payment. Sounds mad.

Then again he might get younger voters.

Welll you can't do that obviously..

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