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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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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.

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 19:55

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 19:52

In what way did you find him "realistic"? Because in all honesty, I found him to be quite the opposite.

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.

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NellieElephantine · 06/10/2025 19:55

Soontobe60 · 06/10/2025 19:24

He thinks men who claim to be women are actual women, and any woman who disagrees with him is a bigot.

This. The Greens hate me, why should I give any credence to them? Their #bekind shtick is a one way deal!

MidnightMusing5 · 06/10/2025 19:54

YOUR party it is then..

GingerBeverage · 06/10/2025 19:53

I don't trust men who change their full names (see also Tommy Robinson). It's like they're creating a persona they can use to act out.

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.

ByPeachPeer · 06/10/2025 19:52

I saw a clip of him saying he would legalise all drugs including heroin and crack so he lost all credibility for me.

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 19:52

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 19:32

Yes i agree about the defence.thing. But I like the way he doesn't suck up to the most popular opinions but is realistic.

In what way did you find him "realistic"? Because in all honesty, I found him to be quite the opposite.

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 19:52

Alconleigh · 06/10/2025 19:43

The Greens have set out their stall as hating women for some time now, and he’s not breaking with party tradition there. So no thanks.

That's a bit of an exaggeration..

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MikeRafone · 06/10/2025 19:51

im not happy about his stance on woman, but believe he’d protect woman’s interests far better than some other party’s

the disparity between rich and poor is so vast now that the gap needs closing, which party will do that, feed up with Cost of living crisis

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 19:51

He's an awful man.
Misogynist fool.

KatyaKanani · 06/10/2025 19:50

ShesTheAlbatross · 06/10/2025 19:40

I’m always wary of politicians who people describe as “telling it like it is”. It always seems to mean “lacks any sense of nuance”.

Quite! Or more likely, telling people what they want to hear in the full knowledge they'll never have power.

Ddakji · 06/10/2025 19:49

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 19:38

😂

You’re laughing but he did actually say that.

And now he thinks men can be women in their own say so.

The man is an anti-science fool doing colossal damage to the environmental cause, as are most of the senior Green Party leadership.

I would never vote for them.

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.

leafbrow · 06/10/2025 19:47

@ShesTheAlbatross I was obviously giving him too much credit! He's a misogynist and an idiot it seems!

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…

TonTonMacoute · 06/10/2025 19:45

He's completely bat shit. There is not one single problem in this country to which he is the solution.

ShesTheAlbatross · 06/10/2025 19:44

leafbrow · 06/10/2025 19:39

I agree with some of what he says but he thinks it is "horrific" that men who imagine they are women are to be banned from women's single sex spaces. He's made it clear he doesn't give a fuck about women or women's rights and is happy to prioritise men's desires over women's safety so he won't be getting my vote.

I listened to a laughable interview with him a couple of weeks ago where he tried to say it was absolutely correct that Graham Lineham should have been arrested for his tweet. But also that it was absolutely awful that someone should be arrested for a Palestine action sign.
A journalist who was a guest on the same show tried to point out that really if he’s arguing free speech for those with Palestine Action signs, he should maybe be a bit less militant about Lineham. But he wasn’t having it.

Alconleigh · 06/10/2025 19:43

The Greens have set out their stall as hating women for some time now, and he’s not breaking with party tradition there. So no thanks.

Underthinker · 06/10/2025 19:42

Daygloboo · 06/10/2025 19:32

Yes i agree about the defence.thing. But I like the way he doesn't suck up to the most popular opinions but is realistic.

He sucks up to the second most popular.

VickyEadieofThigh · 06/10/2025 19:41

Soontobe60 · 06/10/2025 19:24

He thinks men who claim to be women are actual women, and any woman who disagrees with him is a bigot.

Didn't he also claim he can increase the size of women's breasts througj the power of his mind?

ShesTheAlbatross · 06/10/2025 19:40

I’m always wary of politicians who people describe as “telling it like it is”. It always seems to mean “lacks any sense of nuance”.

HoneyButterPopcorn · 06/10/2025 19:40

Soontobe60 · 06/10/2025 19:24

He thinks men who claim to be women are actual women, and any woman who disagrees with him is a bigot.

What’s his stance on moobs? Can’t they be increased by boob whispering too?

leafbrow · 06/10/2025 19:39

I agree with some of what he says but he thinks it is "horrific" that men who imagine they are women are to be banned from women's single sex spaces. He's made it clear he doesn't give a fuck about women or women's rights and is happy to prioritise men's desires over women's safety so he won't be getting my vote.

Homewardbanned · 06/10/2025 19:39

Gold plated, ocean going nut job that one

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