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Sexism/other issues in the Green party England & Wales - Discussion Thread 3

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fromorbit · 02/05/2026 11:45

Zack Polanski is making things bigger yet again so another thread needed.

Well things have developed rather a lot since the start. ZP started out as being another sexist guy in politics - no shortage those around, but he thought he could take it to a new level and he proved he could do it.

The Green threads have followed his rise from the start of with the Hypnoboobs scandal and much more. There is also:

Mothin Ali as deputy Leader who clearly doesn't believe in trans thinking, but cleverly sidesteps round talking about it, has always had a issues with encouraging racist violence and is now encouraging people to sue the Green party if they attempt to stop them saying racist stuff.

The other deputy Rachel Millward represents the posh rich faction of the Greens who manages to sounding like Reform when opposing Asylum Seekers in her area, but at the same time saying we are too harsh on immigrants in general. Obviously she also doesn't believe women are a thing. Yet she is the least crazy when violence is concerned compared to ZP, and Mothin.

Hypnoboobs scandal got worse recently when it became clear from BBC footage ZP actively believed in the Hypnoboobs thesis rather than being tricked into it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9enygvezeo

Alongside all this there is constant ongoing attacks on biological reality from the party in interviews and in policy.

Now in the last week or so after a longstanding spate of antisemetic rhetoric from some Greens during the election campaign and ZP downplaying it. We have synagogues, schools, ambulances attacked, two Jewish people dead and ZP berating unarmed police for risking their lives in fighting a violent killer who was still armed with a knife things have come to a crisis point.

The Greens are becoming ever more sinister with dozens of candidates sounding like they are seventies NF supporters with comments about uppity women and Jewish power. The huge drama over a crazy motion which they were trying to pass against Israel at conference alongside a motion to prevent women having sports will surface again their September conference.

It seems likely after next week The Greens are going to be running a bunch of councils which doesn't bode well after their antics in Bristol.

Yet there is hope, in Bristol women are fighting back_: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5455053-bristol-council-is-about-to-be-sued_

The fight back from Green Women's Declaration, ( https://www.greenwomensdeclaration.uk/ ) continues and the court cases against GPEW from Emma Bateman and Shahrar Ali are developing, both getting through legal delaying tactics as they move to trial. Gardening is needed. These cases if successful could be dramatic in their impact.

First thread - where you can follow the rise of ZP and lots of other scandal
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5328986-greens-internal-drama-warms-up

Second Thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5456759-sexismother-issues-in-the-green-party-england-wales-discussion-thread-2?

Note the Scottish Greens which are a separate party to the Green Party England/Wales have their own thread for all their sexist drama. They split off because GPEW didn't hate biology and women/gays enough at the time.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5313420-scottish-greens-being-sexist-again?page=1

Greens internal drama warms up | Mumsnet

New long article looking at the drama inside the Greens over biology suddenly existing again despite their best efforts. *How the Green Party forgot...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5328986-greens-internal-drama-warms-up

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1984Now · 23/05/2026 09:56

lcakethereforeIam · 23/05/2026 08:34

Well this will be interesting 😳

https://archive.ph/Knu8U

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/23/green-councils-plot-to-scrap-gcse-block-immigration-raid/

I'm glad my council didn't fall to the Greenshirts.

Absolute braindead dreamers.

fromorbit · 23/05/2026 09:02

BoreOfWhabylon · 23/05/2026 05:04

In other Green news, Carla Denyer announced yesterday that she is taking leave of absence from her MP duties due to burnout.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgzk63lym8o?app-referrer=deep-link

Edited

Very interesting timing. Just as the 40 day chance to vote against the EHRC code starts in Parliament.

Separate thread on the Greens response to the code has started here:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5533178-zack-polanski-and-the-code?page=1

Zack Polanski and the code | Mumsnet

Has anyone seen any comment from Polanski regarding the EHRC code? As far as I can tell, he's conspicuously silent.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5533178-zack-polanski-and-the-code?page=1

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Pingponghavoc · 23/05/2026 08:18

I think its strange that with all the publicity around the Greens at the moment, their MPs elected in 2024 arent that visible. Its just ZP and HS.

Justme56 · 23/05/2026 07:10

I can understand why CD has burnout. Must be bloody exhausting with all the middle class identity politics that the Greens seem to thrive on, especially in Bristol.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 23/05/2026 07:02

Lalgarh · 23/05/2026 00:56

James Meadway was a leading ideas man in Corbyns clique in the late 2010s. He's now switched to the greens. New idea from him:

Nationalise Morrisons

https://nitter.net/meadwaj/status/2057789543563042919#m

🙏 please god save us from the terminally stupid.

Maybe instead of the idiot in New York he should pay more attention to history, such as the USSR.

And as a side note I hope my Morrisons isn't one of the one's due to be closed. 😰

Lalgarh · 23/05/2026 00:56

James Meadway was a leading ideas man in Corbyns clique in the late 2010s. He's now switched to the greens. New idea from him:

Nationalise Morrisons

https://nitter.net/meadwaj/status/2057789543563042919#m

1984Now · 22/05/2026 20:01

SionnachRuadh · 22/05/2026 14:54

It reminds me of when Justin Trudeau became Canadian PM, and I know he had to balance out regional interests and demographics and party factions, but I was still shocked to see he had 39 ministers in his cabinet. That's considerably more than the UK, which has twice the population, twice as big a House of Commons, and doesn't have a federal system.

39 ministers. What did they all do?

Minister of hockey
Minister of poutine
Minister of Tim Hortons
Minister of Bachman Turner Overdrive

C'mon now, surely a Minister Of Rush, Canada's favourite sons and power trio.

SionnachRuadh · 22/05/2026 16:09

I should be clear in terms of the Makerfield candidate that two things can be true at once.

The UK left has mainstreamed antisemitism to the point where it's become quite a serious problem for GPEW
and
Hope Not Hate is a Labour Party deniable dirty tricks outfit masquerading as an educational charity

To be fair, HNH did an article yesterday on Patriotic Alternative and Homeland Party members - literal neo-nazis - campaigning for the Great Yarmouth First candidate, but they didn't make much noise about it and the media have chosen not to pick it up. This is much less interesting to the "anti-fascist charity" than the spicy tweets of candidates who might take votes off Labour.

Lalgarh · 22/05/2026 15:57

Just found this subreddit for Lewisham on why people voted green.

Bins and grotty high streets mainly

https://www.reddit.com/r/lewisham/comments/1t9b5e7/why_did_we_vote_green/

Lalgarh · 22/05/2026 15:01

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 22/05/2026 14:33

Communities, Sanctuary and Healing post. 🤮

That's vapid, worthless and revolting. It's like being trapped in your worse nightmare.

Glory be

The official appointed for sanctuary and healing is the one who branded black cabinet minister David Lammy a racial slur bc he was not somehow "black" in the oppressed sense

www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/green-councillor-hau-yu-tam-lewisham-david-lammy-job-b1283185.html

SionnachRuadh · 22/05/2026 14:54

It reminds me of when Justin Trudeau became Canadian PM, and I know he had to balance out regional interests and demographics and party factions, but I was still shocked to see he had 39 ministers in his cabinet. That's considerably more than the UK, which has twice the population, twice as big a House of Commons, and doesn't have a federal system.

39 ministers. What did they all do?

Minister of hockey
Minister of poutine
Minister of Tim Hortons
Minister of Bachman Turner Overdrive

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 22/05/2026 14:33

Communities, Sanctuary and Healing post. 🤮

That's vapid, worthless and revolting. It's like being trapped in your worse nightmare.

1984Now · 22/05/2026 13:20

Lalgarh · 22/05/2026 12:05

It's gonna be all safe spaces and community beehives

I'm sure Polycules will get some major promotion.
There's just so much, um, swapping of ideas on the left.

Lalgarh · 22/05/2026 12:05

It's gonna be all safe spaces and community beehives

1984Now · 22/05/2026 11:07

Chersfrozenface · 22/05/2026 10:50

So Lewisham's Green council cabinet has been announced.

There is no longer a Community Safety post. Instead there's a Communities, Sanctuary and Healing post.

No comment.

More word salad from progressives.
Shame they subject us to their virtue signalling echo chamber.

Chersfrozenface · 22/05/2026 10:50

So Lewisham's Green council cabinet has been announced.

There is no longer a Community Safety post. Instead there's a Communities, Sanctuary and Healing post.

No comment.

Lalgarh · 22/05/2026 08:49

lcakethereforeIam · 22/05/2026 00:42

Bloody hell! Another one. Hurrah for the Greenshirts!

And he's a bloody children's safeguarding officer 🤐

PrettyDamnCosmic · 22/05/2026 08:41

1984Now · 22/05/2026 00:22

So in Makerfield, there's only one left candidate (Burnham), with the Green standing down and LDs not standing anyone.
And three right candidates, the Reform-er, who by the looks of it is in trouble with recently unearthed previously deleted SM posts, the Tory, and Restore Britain.
I mean, Burnham could hardly have it any easier.

Nominations don't close until 4pm on Tuesday, May 26th. The Greens & LibDems are certain to put up a candidate.

lcakethereforeIam · 22/05/2026 00:42

OrangeTipsOnTheHonesty · 22/05/2026 00:12

He's not the candidate any more. Shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the London ambulance attacks.

x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2057560964925362603
UPDATE: Chris Kennedy shared posts describing the attack on the Jewish ambulances in London as a "false flag" He apologised and removed the shares then pulled out

Bloody hell! Another one. Hurrah for the Greenshirts!

1984Now · 22/05/2026 00:22

OrangeTipsOnTheHonesty · 22/05/2026 00:12

He's not the candidate any more. Shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the London ambulance attacks.

x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2057560964925362603
UPDATE: Chris Kennedy shared posts describing the attack on the Jewish ambulances in London as a "false flag" He apologised and removed the shares then pulled out

So in Makerfield, there's only one left candidate (Burnham), with the Green standing down and LDs not standing anyone.
And three right candidates, the Reform-er, who by the looks of it is in trouble with recently unearthed previously deleted SM posts, the Tory, and Restore Britain.
I mean, Burnham could hardly have it any easier.

OrangeTipsOnTheHonesty · 22/05/2026 00:12

He's not the candidate any more. Shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the London ambulance attacks.

x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2057560964925362603
UPDATE: Chris Kennedy shared posts describing the attack on the Jewish ambulances in London as a "false flag" He apologised and removed the shares then pulled out

borntobequiet · 21/05/2026 12:53

I see the Greens have selected a nurse as their candidate in Makerfield.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2r2307d7o

Chris Kennedy, a registered nurse and children's safeguarding specialist

It would be good to ask him some questions about the sex-based safeguarding of children in hospital, if one were a constituent.

Chris Kennedy - a bald man with blue eyes and a brown beard - smiles at the camera

Green Party selects nurse as Makerfield by-election candidate

Chris Kennedy was selected by local party members following a hustings.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2r2307d7o

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