Could Zack Polanski be any more of an obnoxious twat?

I honestly think the drip drip drip of the “right side of history” narrative has led to a sizeable number of people not giving a damn if Jews were all hounded out of the country with a suitcase each. Likewise the “be kind” mantra which basically means a top trumps of victimhood.

I was watching a YouTube book video and the YouTuber was getting a pasting because “Victorian England was imperialist yada yada” - so you can’t discuss, I don’t know, David Copperfield because The Past Is Evil. The level of intolerance and ignorance is horrible.

Are these people just idiots? Are they not capable of thinking? Do they still think the Green Party are the cuddly environmentalists we always used to use for our protest votes? Have they really been paying that little attention?

Good thinking! Perhaps put them in a work camp.

Same in my area. Nice big houses, low crime rate, top state schools, lots of woodland, lots of 4x4s .
Loads of Green Party placards.

Tax the 300 or so billionnaires in the UK 100% and pay for the NHS for a year! That'll work!

"We want to see a world without borders".
That'll work 🙄

The immigration! It would be carnage with vast camps here. Admitting people suffering from climate change? Well, that’s basically anyone from mid-Italy down to the bottom of the African continent. That’s a lot of universal basic income that’s going to have to be paid out.

Dispiritingly in my local town there are masses of Green posters up. In very nice houses. What prats.

Exactly. It's a non starter. This programme would literally cost £ billions.
It's so easy to say what should be free/subsidised.
Easy to spend theoretical money to gain votes.

And which taxes would you increase? The higher earners are already maxed out tax wise. It’s the low earners who are paying a pitiful amount but they’re paid a pitiful amount too in comparison to their housing costs so we can’t raise taxes there either.

We cannot raise taxes any more. We need to reduce spending instead. Shame Zak doesn’t understand this.

Yes:
Free bus transport for the under 22s, the rest subsidised.
More affordable house building.
Rent freezes.
Rent caps
£15 ph minimum wage
... just what people would like, but what governments are unable to deliver unless there's a huge increase in taxation.

Exactly, ZP is playing to the gallery isn’t he !

It’s back of a fag packet politics and I’m not an economist , but I take an interest and their policies wouldn’t work. It is just pie in the sky isn’t it.
( again, only my own opinion , but I can see their appeal (

High public spending! Low tax! In your dreams!

The nationalised buses plan is completely unworkable. It would cost £134m in Manchester alone, how could that be replicated across the UK?
Are we going to have to pay 90% tax?

Some of their policies seem to make sense if you haven’t too much grasp on how an economy actually works. He is popular with the young as they ( mostly) agree on taxing the rich , but it’s not as easy as that.
ZP isn’t even an MP and taunting Ed Balls like that wasn’t funny. He didn’t seem to realize that he isn’t an MP anymore, but that might have been because both of them were wound up.
He can’t shake off his past either! That will haunt him, but that’s politics today isn’t it. Do anything and it’s forever brought up, but that goes for most politicians to be fair to them all.
He is appealing to certain demographics. My own son is taken in by him , but it’s all just delusional policies which will never work and certainly not costed out.

Right. Certainly not an economist, that's for sure.

Drama student ... don't know he was ever a paid actor.

He genuinely didn't seem to have applied any thought, it was just soundbites.
I thought he was an actor? He really didn't present well.

His interview was a car crash of epic proportions on GM tv and he just didn’t seem to grasp what was being asked of him. Their policies are bonkers ( that’s only my opinion though )

It's just student politics of the most inane type: open borders, anti-Israel, pro-trans etc etc.

(Apologies to any sensible students out there!)

The Greens are definitely minimising antisemitism in order to appeal to their new voter base.

Thousands of Jewish people have left France because of rising antisemitism, and the numbers leaving has accelerated in recent years. They haven't just considered leaving, they've left.

I suppose the Greens would say it was just their perception of antisemitism that prompted them to believe they have no future in Europe.

After watching him on GMB this morning I am genuinely baffled as to how anyone could take him remotely seriously?

Unfortunately not, his rhetoric is being lapped up by certain people.

I was wondering about the username too.