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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

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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Lalgarh · 29/07/2026 09:49

He's doubling down on the t shirt stuff

nutmeg7 · 29/07/2026 09:38

AngleofRepose · 29/07/2026 09:26

Zack Polanski is such a teenager, isn't he? The Greens would do so much better if they ditched the ideologies and went back to holding the government to account on the environment and climate change. They have completely lost their way.

He is exactly that. He comes across as arrogant but brittle and snarky when challenged.

Refusing to apologise because it was a careless mistake rather than deliberate.

Splitting hairs. He should apologise for being so bloody careless when he is in a position of responsibility.

He is immature and with a massive but fragile ego.

ArabellaScott · 29/07/2026 09:34

Yeah, this talks about LASIT going back a good few.years. its a kind of grab bag of mixed causes, not totally sure how helpful it is to mix incels, animal rights, and extreme left wingers together.

https://www.protectuk.police.uk/threat-risk/threat-analysis/threat-left-wing-anarchist-and-single-issue-terrorism-lasit

ArabellaScott · 29/07/2026 09:31

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/07/2026 21:57

As I’ve said on other threads, and guess it’s due to Palestine Action etc, a new acronym is being talked about in the world of counter terrorism: LASIT - Left Wing, Anarchist and Single Issue Terrorism.

Its been listed as a thing on govt anti terrorism sites for a few years, I think. Afair precedes PA.

ArabellaScott · 29/07/2026 09:30

DrBlackbird · 27/07/2026 22:31

The Green Party spokesperson said: "Zack condemns the image on the T-shirt. He was tagged in a post with 20 images and clicked accept without realising there was more to it than he had seen.
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"The T-shirt is clearly in poor taste, especially at a time of heightened fears for the security of public figures, having experienced multiple threats himself.
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"He and the Green Party call on everyone involved in public discourse to show kindness and not encourage more division."

Well, that’s everyone told then. Everyone must just show kindness and not encourage more division. Do you think that includes towards women who think sex is immutable?

'Show kindness' - fucksake, mate!

Some people are well meaning and misguided. I don't think Polanski is. He's merely ambitious and power hungry.

AngleofRepose · 29/07/2026 09:26

Zack Polanski is such a teenager, isn't he? The Greens would do so much better if they ditched the ideologies and went back to holding the government to account on the environment and climate change. They have completely lost their way.

fromorbit · 29/07/2026 09:19

Keeps digging. Guillotine Gate getting bigger.

Zack Polanski repeatedly refuses to apologise for guillotine T-shirt post
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/zack-polanski-newsnight-nigel-farage-tshirt-reform-b1291630.html

‘Terminally online’: why frustrated Greens want Polanski to hand over his social media
Peter Walker
Senior political correspondent

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/29/honeymoon-over-zack-polanski-burnham-green

Zack Polanski repeatedly refuses to apologise for guillotine T-shirt post

‘If Nigel Farage wants to apologise for all the times that he’s put other people in danger, then I’ll be happy to make an apology’ - Zack Polanski

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/zack-polanski-newsnight-nigel-farage-tshirt-reform-b1291630.html

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Lalgarh · 28/07/2026 00:41

And yet he's been careful enough to restrain his retweets since Berlin to a single comment sending love and solidarity over The Unpleasantness.

Some might say this is because he knows the key voter demographic the greens are courting in Manchester wouldn't appreciate those pictures of him twerking from a similar event in March.
But that is because they are dreadful far right hate mongers.

1984Now · 27/07/2026 22:38

Ah, Zack keeps "liking" stuff he in retrospect shouldn't like.
He's just too busy to check first.
What is this, the concentration of a 7 year old?

DrBlackbird · 27/07/2026 22:31

The Green Party spokesperson said: "Zack condemns the image on the T-shirt. He was tagged in a post with 20 images and clicked accept without realising there was more to it than he had seen.
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"The T-shirt is clearly in poor taste, especially at a time of heightened fears for the security of public figures, having experienced multiple threats himself.
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"He and the Green Party call on everyone involved in public discourse to show kindness and not encourage more division."

Well, that’s everyone told then. Everyone must just show kindness and not encourage more division. Do you think that includes towards women who think sex is immutable?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/07/2026 21:57

As I’ve said on other threads, and guess it’s due to Palestine Action etc, a new acronym is being talked about in the world of counter terrorism: LASIT - Left Wing, Anarchist and Single Issue Terrorism.

1984Now · 27/07/2026 20:29

I'm always amazed by what the left feel they can get away with saying in public.
And of course, it doesn't stay simply as words or "suggestions".
Look at all the political violence in the US, from the murder of the pharma executive, to attempts on Trump's life, to all the anti Semitic violence on both sides of The Pond.
The left just revel in violent imagery, more and more can't differentiate between imagining violent outcomes, and carrying them out.

fromorbit · 27/07/2026 20:21

Politics UK

🚨 UPDATE: The Met Police are now assessing Reform UK's "incitement to murder" report against Zack Polanski

"We take reports of this nature extremely seriously, and officers are conducting enquiries into the matter"

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ArabellaScott · 27/07/2026 19:36

Sorry, quoted the wrong post somehow.

ArabellaScott · 27/07/2026 19:36

Lalgarh · 27/07/2026 14:05

Correction. Polanski did do a tweet offering love and solidarity to Berlin immediately when the reports came in.

https://nitter.net/ZackPolanski/status/2081136611568361487#m

Comments below are asking for clarification on whether that means with the victims or attackers. I half expected him to kick off about the suspect being shot dead

He's back to Manchester based stuff now. He has RTd claims labour is ignoring Muslims on Gaza.

https://nitter.net/McrGreenParty/status/2081579372545200586#m

But not the statement from LGBTQ greens on Berlin.

'Reform UK say they are reporting Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police after he shared a post to his Instagram which included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine.
Polanski accepted a request to collaborate with another account and shared a series of pictures of a Green Party event on Sunday with his 713,000 followers.
One of the images showed a man wearing a T-shirt which said: "We're only making plans for Nigel".'

Christ. Right Side of History strikes again.

fromorbit · 27/07/2026 19:17

Looks like the drop in the polls has really screwed with ZPs ego.

NEW: Zack Polanski has removed a post featuring a man wearing a T-shirt calling for Nigel Farage to be beheaded.

Reform UK reporting Green leader Zack Polanski to police over Instagram post
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y063yqlleo

Zack Polanski

Reform UK reporting Green leader Zack Polanski to police over Instagram post

The post included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y063yqlleo

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TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 27/07/2026 16:54

Perhaps the Greens should arrange a fact finding junket to Iran, they could send all their best 'queers' to show solidarity with the IRG, they'll save some money if they buy one tickets.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 27/07/2026 14:29

Comments below are asking for clarification on whether that means with the victims or attackers

😂😂😂

1984Now · 27/07/2026 14:11

Lalgarh · 27/07/2026 14:05

Correction. Polanski did do a tweet offering love and solidarity to Berlin immediately when the reports came in.

https://nitter.net/ZackPolanski/status/2081136611568361487#m

Comments below are asking for clarification on whether that means with the victims or attackers. I half expected him to kick off about the suspect being shot dead

He's back to Manchester based stuff now. He has RTd claims labour is ignoring Muslims on Gaza.

https://nitter.net/McrGreenParty/status/2081579372545200586#m

But not the statement from LGBTQ greens on Berlin.

Haha, Labour get criticised by the Greens for not attending Muslim meets, how about when Polanski gives gender critical women's meets the cold shoulder?
Tbh, Starmer wasn't a whole lot better (I believe Rosie Duffield is still waiting since 2024).

Lalgarh · 27/07/2026 14:05

Correction. Polanski did do a tweet offering love and solidarity to Berlin immediately when the reports came in.

https://nitter.net/ZackPolanski/status/2081136611568361487#m

Comments below are asking for clarification on whether that means with the victims or attackers. I half expected him to kick off about the suspect being shot dead

He's back to Manchester based stuff now. He has RTd claims labour is ignoring Muslims on Gaza.

https://nitter.net/McrGreenParty/status/2081579372545200586#m

But not the statement from LGBTQ greens on Berlin.

Lalgarh · 26/07/2026 14:12

Also the fraying of shared experiences between the generations with the young increasingly online for nearly all cultural touchstone experiences

https://nitter.net/TomHCalver/status/2081364171854090641#m

1984Now · 26/07/2026 13:38

Badenoch right now needs to appeal past what is a narrowing Boomer cohort voter group. That group is contracting, yet maintains a real hold on conservative policy making.
I'm fast approaching state retirement age, but I'd vote Tory even if they junked the Triple Lock.

Lalgarh · 26/07/2026 13:33

Yes there is a split between socially liberal and socially conservative that cuts right across the trad left right economic divide.

Young people, and this applies with regard to politics according to prof John curtice, might be socially liberal and left wing but that does not translate into support for the state. These being the generation who've had to stump up tuition fees and are now stuck in perma rented accomodation seeing the largest chunk of state benefits going to pensioners

It's why Polanskis so popular with the younger graduates. He's paying lip service to the triple lock but he's not actively courting pensioners even though they have a higher propensity to vote.

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