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AIBU to question Zack Polanski’s credibility and political suitability?

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Bertiebiscuit · 06/05/2026 09:07

Everything about "zack Polanski" is fake - he was born David Paulden. He was never a "spokesman" for the Red Cross. He scammed women with fake hypnotism, He is a actor with a completely invented persona, he's no politician, he's a snake oil salesman. How can anyone vote for him?

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Twiglets1 · 07/05/2026 07:17

Ellen2shoes · 07/05/2026 07:07

He’s been Corbynised by the right wing media for criticising Israel and for promoting peace in the ME. The war is a murky money machine for billionaires invested in fossil fuel and arms. ZP is calling it out. BP’s profits have doubled since the attack on Iran.

Farage and KB would have had UK troops in the war by now had they been in charge.

Starmer also was against getting too involved in the war, but he is not getting media attention ahead of the local elections for allowing too much antisemitism into the Labour Party or for trying to make money off gullible women (hypnosis re breast size).

People do have legitimate concerns which can’t all be swept under the rug by references to right wing media.

Ladyymuck · 07/05/2026 07:12

I agree OP and cannot understand his popularity. Akthough not a greens voter I always thought Caroline Lucas came across as genuine. I wonder what she makes of Zack Polanski.

Ellen2shoes · 07/05/2026 07:07

He’s been Corbynised by the right wing media for criticising Israel and for promoting peace in the ME. The war is a murky money machine for billionaires invested in fossil fuel and arms. ZP is calling it out. BP’s profits have doubled since the attack on Iran.

Farage and KB would have had UK troops in the war by now had they been in charge.

Twiglets1 · 07/05/2026 06:55

KatiePricesKnickers · 07/05/2026 06:15

It’s hardly a smear campaign when he’s done the smearing himself?

Exactly - Polanski has fucked his own credibility by going too far and dropped quite a few political points after his comments criticising not the Golders Green attacker but the police who apprehended him.

Ellen2shoes · 07/05/2026 06:48

@SoberannSerene no surprise there. The Spectator owned by Marshall who also owns GB news (that Reform propagandist mouthpiece channel which pays Farage 1m a year). Marshall and Murdoch - the right wing media monopoly intent on smearing.

Skinnysaluki · 07/05/2026 06:18

SoberannSerene · 06/05/2026 23:19

Yes - I feel for the original Green party members- must be difficult watching a charlatan like ZP hijack their party for his own ends .

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Yes, I think they enjoyed being in an ineffectual comfort zone where everyone loved them (according to these threads) but no one thought to vote for them.
The way they were going, they’d have likely managed 8 or 9 MPs just at the point where the environment completely collapsed.

KatiePricesKnickers · 07/05/2026 06:15

It’s hardly a smear campaign when he’s done the smearing himself?

Skinnysaluki · 07/05/2026 06:13

Not another thread about Zak Polanski! It’s really tiresome now.
(Not to mention totally disingenuous, specious and highly politically motivated, as anyone can tell from the weird and robotic titles given to the threads)
The smear campaign on here and in the press has gone mad this week- desperate measures to try and head off the green surge before the council elections.
Let’s see how they get on in the polls today

Wearenotborg · 07/05/2026 05:59

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Twiglets1 · 07/05/2026 05:37

All political leaders or potential political leaders get heavily scrutinised - it’s part of the job.

NoisyViewer · 07/05/2026 05:29

I agree with you, but if I can say you should always question the credibility of those you may vote for to rule the country

Twiglets1 · 07/05/2026 05:18

Daisylove1 · 06/05/2026 18:27

But the thing is, farage should also be the ‘new boy’ in politics. Up until July 24 he wasn’t even an MP. However for the last, say 15 years he’s been given a platform on mainstream programmes like question time. So he’s absolutely not treated the same as Polanski and is not under as much scrutiny. Even when he was a nobody he was somehow making front page headlines and being treated as a legitimate voice.

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So is Polanski making headlines but for all the wrong reasons.

His popularity has taken a nose dive since he made that ill advised comment against the police who apprehended the Golders Green attacker.

OneTealShaker · 07/05/2026 02:21

icepopsincoming · 06/05/2026 22:45

Chat GPT, using all sources of knowledge it can find, deduces that the Green Party are actually the least racist of the current political parties in England.

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So you use ChatGPT to decide who to vote for?

Well, if that ain’t a cliche.

MidnightMeltdown · 07/05/2026 01:22

It’s a joke. I voted Green in the last election. I won’t be voting for them next time that’s for sure! They’ve lost all credibility.

IsabellaVireauxLaurent · 07/05/2026 00:56

ThatCyanCat · 06/05/2026 22:50

ChatGPT is a brainless AI chatbot that thought Rishi Sunak was the leader of the Conservatives when I checked it out last week. So I actually don't know why this surprises me. I didn't think my expectations were too high.

People are using AI to do their thinking and settle their disputes as the ultimate arbiter. Perhaps as a species we deserve a Reform/Green coalition. If ChatGPT thinks we do, of course.

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but then it was the wikipedia era etc, so it seems theres always been other ways of influencing etc

IsabellaVireauxLaurent · 07/05/2026 00:55

Bertiebiscuit · 06/05/2026 09:07

Everything about "zack Polanski" is fake - he was born David Paulden. He was never a "spokesman" for the Red Cross. He scammed women with fake hypnotism, He is a actor with a completely invented persona, he's no politician, he's a snake oil salesman. How can anyone vote for him?

similar with the leader of other countries, basically an actor etc

SoberannSerene · 07/05/2026 00:38

Ellen2shoes · 07/05/2026 00:02

Is he getting paid by fossil fuel donors or private healthcare vultures or arms dealers whose interests quietly finance their conveniently flip flopping policies? Nope. The only one who isn’t.

https://spectator.com/article/the-shamelessness-of-zack-polanski/
This article sums him up pretty well.
He’s the Farage of the far left.

The shamelessness of Zack Polanski

The Gorton and Denton by-election gives us a taste of the vicious future that awaits England. The most dynamic force on the left, the Green party, and on the right, Reform, are united in their willingness to replace the old world of Labour and the Tori...

https://spectator.com/article/the-shamelessness-of-zack-polanski/

Ellen2shoes · 07/05/2026 00:02

Is he getting paid by fossil fuel donors or private healthcare vultures or arms dealers whose interests quietly finance their conveniently flip flopping policies? Nope. The only one who isn’t.

Ellen2shoes · 06/05/2026 23:45

What ends?

SoberannSerene · 06/05/2026 23:19

SecretSquirrelLoo · 06/05/2026 22:58

I’m a longstanding environmentalist as well as pro-Palestinian and I can’t believe so many people have fallen for this creepy charlatan.

Watching woke bro acquaintances salivating over his electoral prospects makes me feel glad to be politically homeless.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9enygvezeo

Yes - I feel for the original Green party members- must be difficult watching a charlatan like ZP hijack their party for his own ends .

Ellen2shoes · 06/05/2026 23:15

The GP are the only party who do not get paid by fossil fuel billionaires to promote their interests. Their leader, new and flawed, has been subjected to a massive smear campaign just before an election. Quelle surprise.

The only Jewish leader of a party has been labelled as anti semitic because he has opposed the huge hoarding of wealth by a greedy cohort of people who have more money than they can ever spend and who control the media. The disgusting anti semitic caricatures published by the very same media owned by these billionaires who pretend they care tells us how warped politics has become.

SecretSquirrelLoo · 06/05/2026 22:58

I’m a longstanding environmentalist as well as pro-Palestinian and I can’t believe so many people have fallen for this creepy charlatan.

Watching woke bro acquaintances salivating over his electoral prospects makes me feel glad to be politically homeless.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9enygvezeo

Zack Polanski, in white open necked shirt and dark jacket, addresses a Green Party rally, with microphone in hand

Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim

A newly unearthed interview from 2013 casts doubt on the Green Party leader's claim to have apologised.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9enygvezeo

icepopsincoming · 06/05/2026 22:51

Underthinker · 06/05/2026 22:48

Must be true then.
It also insisted there were only 2 Rs in strawberry.

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ThatCyanCat · 06/05/2026 22:50

icepopsincoming · 06/05/2026 22:45

Chat GPT, using all sources of knowledge it can find, deduces that the Green Party are actually the least racist of the current political parties in England.

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ChatGPT is a brainless AI chatbot that thought Rishi Sunak was the leader of the Conservatives when I checked it out last week. So I actually don't know why this surprises me. I didn't think my expectations were too high.

People are using AI to do their thinking and settle their disputes as the ultimate arbiter. Perhaps as a species we deserve a Reform/Green coalition. If ChatGPT thinks we do, of course.

Underthinker · 06/05/2026 22:48

icepopsincoming · 06/05/2026 22:45

Chat GPT, using all sources of knowledge it can find, deduces that the Green Party are actually the least racist of the current political parties in England.

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Must be true then.
It also insisted there were only 2 Rs in strawberry.

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