AIBU - GREEN party - Zack Polanski

I joined the Green Party briefly, back when it was concerned with environmentalism, and had interesting economic ideas. Back when I was concerned about the direction of the country 20 years ago. It is not now concerned with environmentalism at all, and the direction of both this party and the country have got to where they wanted to be: exclusionary and having recreated an impoverished nation of serfs. The Green Party’s modern representatives told me I was not wanted as a real biological woman who believed in biology, and refused to answer my questions about it, telling me I had no voice; and so I will not vote for them now. How can anyone trust a party claiming to be interested in ecology that cannot master basic biology? How should women vote for a party that tells them that they don’t exist and should not be allowed a voice? Talk sense.

Working from within is not possible if the likes of Caroline Lucas, respected by all, who had written about the decline of politics and the increase in difficulty of accessing public offices and politics, can it seems only watch the fall of her party and do nothing.

I would not trust them to follow through on the push to tax billionaires anyway, it’s another lie to them. It is a sound idea and the only thing that can save the country now. Billlionaires are not a declining group but a growing one, the numbers increased over COVID: and between them all the amount of wealth they are hoovering up is an increasing percentage of the total available. It is not earned and we need it back. But this modern group of misogynists liars and jokers are not people who will do anything positive for the country.

can't we just all self ID as men and miraculously not be affected?

if the greens get in we'll have no idea how women are affected by climate change because their definition of women is "adult human females and men who think they're women and not adult human females who think they're men"

good luck trying to design and implement any policies to improve the lives of women (only the adult human female kind) with that definition

We shouldn’t move on from the hypnosis thing, it’s unmovable-on-from and it’s so ridiculous and cruel that he doesn’t deserve to have people move on from it. I don’t care how many gay people he dances in clubs with, he hates women, and so do his party, the Greens always did

Any woman who votes Green is like a turkey voting for Christmas

They hate women. they have shown this demonstrably, again and again. Why would you do it to yourselves and the rest of us?

Agreed. It’s a shame because I really like a lot of what they’re saying.
But they won’t get in.

We should move on from the hypnotits thing. The journalist who asked him to do that has come out and explained what happened:

In 2013, a Sun newspaper reporter asked to be hypnotized by then-hypnotherapist (and future Green Party leader) Zack Polanski to increase her breast size as part of an investigation into unconventional body image techniques.
Here are the details regarding why this occurred and the context behind the story:

• The Goal was Body Image Improvement: The journalist approached Polanski to write a story about whether hypnotherapy could improve body image and confidence, with the specific, sensationalist goal of increasing breast size.
• Initial Refusal and "Experiment":Polanski has stated he initially refused the request, as it was not a service he offered. However, he agreed to do the session as an "experiment" after being pushed by the newspaper.
• The Session Focus: While the Sunarticle focused on the claim that her breasts grew by several inches over ten days, Polanski clarified that the session was intended to help with body image and confidence, not physical enlargement.
• The Result: The journalist reported in the article that her measurements increased, which she described as feeling "stunned". However, subsequent commentary suggests the results were likely due to behavioral changes rather than psychic, local tissue growth, with the reporter noting increased appetite/eating habits.
• Polanski's Apology: Polanski has apologized for his involvement, stating he was young and it was a mistake. He maintains he never charged for this specific session and that the article misrepresented the nature of his work.

The story resurfaced in 2024 and 2025 following Polanski's election as a leader of the Green Party, frequently used as a political attack by opponents.

Someone being a vegan is not a good reason to make them PM ffs!

I'm GC and I vote Green. Women will be most fucked over by climate change.

Vote for a conman? No. He made money from conning women into believing he could make their breasts bigger by hypnosis. He is quite literally a conman.

The Greens in Scotland have been a total disaster. Incompetent, anti-economy, anti-women's rights and generally batshit. The English Green party are defending numerous legal actions due to their continuing discrimination against gender critical members. I hope they go bankrupt before the next election.

You’re going to have to do better than that, @MumofCandR

Don't be so simplistic

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I left Labour after they cut the Winter Fuel Allowance & went after the farmers, I joined the Green Party after seeing a Party Political Broadcast by Z P, he actually gave me hope that there is an alternative to the 3 main parties & Reform. I would have been voting Green in the local elections as ds is our candidate, they can't make any more mess than Labour & the Tories have made of the country.

The biggest tit is of course Zack/Dave Polanski. Whether he’s saying that he’s too good for wiping bums so that’s why we need immigrants, or cheering on terrorists who smashed a sledgehammer into a policewoman’s spine because she was arresting some silly little twat who didn’t like the reality of it. Or being the weapons grade misogynist he is over the trans issue to women in his party and outside it.

Of course you are being unreasonable. See Mothin Ali and Amy Challenor. The Greens hate women.
gcgreens.uk/suspended-expelled-resigned/emma-bateman-expelled/

What a ridiculous post. The Greens are as dangerous as Reform. Their views on gender aren't even their most bat - shit crazy.

Quite!

I like to think that’s because they are utterly thick as mince rather that envious and vindictive but who knows

Pretty certain it's both.

The man does not know the difference between the debt and the deficit! There is no way he is a serious candidate if he does not have an even basic understanding of how our economy works.
Watch his interview on the rest is politics leading. He is not credible and would almost be as bad for this country as Farage would be.

I cannot believe anyone falls for that conman. Although I guess maybe they are one of those people that are more susceptible to hypnotism… The last thing I need is bigger tits!!

Then you're rather ignorant.

Veganism isn't a diet. It's an ethical stance on animals that incorporates but goes beyond a plant based diet. The goal is to avoid acting in a way that leads to the suffering of animals as much as is possible.

Why would they step in in the Middle East? Those aren’t NATO countries. They haven’t intervened in Sudan where much higher numbers of civilians are being killed either. NATO is a defensive organisation, not a world policeman. It is an alliance for the mutual defence of its members.

Completely agree with this.

Exactly.

If it's such a side issue compared to cost of living, environment and so forth then all the Greens need to do is drop it. Why are they choosing to put those more important policies at risk rather than soften their stance on gender?

If people really think the Gender issue is not important, the way to get Green votes is not to waste time challenging individual women on why it is so important that they will walk away from parties because of it, it is to tell the Green Party to stop throwing away votes because of it.

I think the way the Green Party treats women who disagree with the stance on gender is unconscionable.

I could vote for a party who disagrees with me on the primacy of gender over sex if they allow for open debate about that policy.

I cannot vote for a party that claims female people even wanting to talk about being female rather than male and how for them that is different to whatever it means to be a women by "gender" are bigots and fascists.

So no, it's not "gender" that is the important issue, but the way the Green Party is behaving because of it.

If you can lie about men being women, then you'll lie about anything.

This. Absolutely this.