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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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ArabellaScott · 02/05/2026 21:45

https://archive.ph/I8dUX

Muttering about Mothin Ali's lack of support for the LGBTQ is increasing. Peter Tatchell has called for him to make a statement.

Pingponghavoc · 02/05/2026 21:32

@The Green Party in government will:
Implement a fair and humane system of managed immigration
Treat all migrants as if they are citizens
Give all residents the right to vote
Help families to be together
Dismantle the Home Office
Abolish the No Recourse to Public Funds condition
Abolish the ten year route to settlement'
Thats bold! 😂

Thats written by someone who just trying to annoy their dad.

ArabellaScott · 02/05/2026 21:00

I don't think anyone can believe a word he says.

Igneococcus · 02/05/2026 20:34

Interview in the Times.
"Polanski’s politics are unquestionably bold. His strategy is to publicise policies not directly related to environmentalism, on the grounds that voters already know about his party’s green agenda."
I have to admit that I don't know what their environmental policies are, not convinced Zack knows them either.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/d21dfdab-85e1-460e-a7f4-c4d081681cf8?shareToken=fce5e4efe1f9d04f8ab86d8851f80957&ver=article

Zack Polanski: ‘I want to talk to people who disagree with me’

Decca Aitkenhead grills the under-fire Greens leader on his response to the Golders Green attack, his economic vision and his party’s lack of an immigration policy

https://www.thetimes.com/article/d21dfdab-85e1-460e-a7f4-c4d081681cf8?shareToken=fce5e4efe1f9d04f8ab86d8851f80957&ver=article

DrBlackbird · 02/05/2026 18:56

Baroness Faulkner talking about intolerance against Jewish people sounds eerily similar to another issue…. Moreover, our public institutions, the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the NHS and education are among those where political ideology has taken over and must be rooted out.

What is in the water of the UK that we have so many crazy politicians and so many crazy voters?

ArabellaScott · 02/05/2026 11:54

Thanks Orbit.

I think this is a more up to date thread for the Scottish Greens. The other one filled up.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5313420-scottish-greens-being-sexist-again

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