Anyone else find the BBC interview with Zack Polanski rather combative?

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Is anyone watching the interview of the Green Party Zach Polanski leader on BBC News tonight?

I had to check It wasn’t GBN. The way she pressed him and kept interrupting made it difficult to watch.

I am not a green supporter btw just noticing a pattern recently with BBC reporting.

Wow, you really are sinking low in your support for ZP

Yep! So @poetryandwine what you’re advocating is that people can post things on public social media, calling fot
the death of others, or inciting violence, and as long as they take it down, it’s ok? They don’t have to apologise or say that’s not what they meant?

I have said explicitly several times on this thread that I am no supporter of ZP. How can anyone who has read my posts think otherwise?

I have always liked some aspects of the Green platform (more so in the past, and I found Caroline Lucas an appealing leader) but I support Labour. During Corbyn’s years I supported the Lib Dems.

Yet you are supporting him here for applifying post calling for the violent death of an MP and saying he would look weak (to whom?) for apologising for it.

You know I did not say this. You can see above that I made a case for why (a) ZP was screwed one way or another the moment NF publicised the post, which doesn’t take away from the fact that the original mistake was ZP’s; and (b) this situation has unique features which I have explained several times.

I have never claimed what ZP did is okay. I said more than once above that he should have apologised immediately and explained why that would have been different to apologising under duress on Newsnight.

So no, I did not say anything like what you claim I did. Stop misrepresenting my views.

Read.

I made a case for why (a) ZP was screwed one way or another the moment NF publicised the post

Because ZP publicising death threats towards NF is NF fault….

@poetryandwineZP must have known the political landscape in terms of Farage. It is never a mistake when politicians publish something. They might have buyers remorse but they fully understood what they are doing when they push the button. ZP has form for this and Farage will always attempt to make political capital where he can. Even I know that! This is not a special case, it’s just being very foolish. Again.

ZP only reposted for a very short time. He took it down as soon as he saw this photo. He was stupid not to inspect all the photos before posting them.

NF then reposted and blew the whole thing up.

I almost agree with you here.

There was no good way out once ZP did this stupid thing. I do think it is a special case, because AFAIK NF’s lack of patriotism - to put it mildly ( and that of certain cronies) - is unique within the upper reaches of British politics. Coupled with his genius for PR it holds the potential for real evil and needs to be starved. Scarily, I have an opinion on the relative political intelligence of the two men.

Perhaps we have a civilised disagreement. Always a pleasure talking with you, however, as disagreeing rationally should always be acceptable. Perhaps we should be sharing a pot of tea or toasting with something stronger.

Yes but he's a grade A c*nt, a dangerous one at that, so I don't blame VD

If you are going to quote me, at least finish the sentence to make it accurate. Chopping it to suit yourself is a cheap tactic.

The original was posted at 13.33.

Why is such an ineffectual guy dangerous? Is ZP being investigated for criminality or possible treason like members of Reform?

Because people will vote for him and his ideas become more mainstream due to the Overton window

ideas for legal action, legally expressed, are not dangerous. I find many of Reform’s ideas for legal action morally repugnant but I don’t call them dangerous.

If ZP can convert large numbers to the Greens, which I very much doubt, more power to him. You can’t just have democracy for those whose ideas you like.

Farage and Reform are being investigated, or already imprisoned, for illegal connections to the criminal world and to Russia. That is a completely different type of danger. If you like their ideas but not their sleaze and possible treason - and I cannot believe I am saying this - vote Restore.

A reminder that the Greens have repeatedly been found guilty of unlawful discrimination against their members and have further court action against them pending. There have also been numerous Green politicians convicted of criminal offences in the last few years including modern slavery, animal cruelty, public nuisance, stirring up racial hatred….

Most of this post is false. To take your allegations one at a time:

One Lancashire councillor is being investigated for modern slavery following arrest. There has been no trial, much less any conviction. They now sit as an independent following expulsion from the Green Party.

There are no other reports of Green politicians involved with modern slavery.
There is no record of any conviction for modern slavery.

I find records of exactly one Green politician, a Manchester City councillor, convicted of cruelty to animals. If you can find more, show us.

Records show that two Green candidates in recent local elections are being investigated for charges related to racial hatred. Again, there has been no trial and therefore no conviction.

I find no other records of arrests. I find no public records of convictions of Green politicians to date for inciting racial hatred.

So on the three more serious crimes you listed there is a public record of one conviction. You have slandered the others, and I don’t write that because I support them. I also find the investigations very concerning. But we have trial by law and we don’t convict people over social media or, as you may perhaps have read, in the gutter press.

A few Green politicians have been arrested at public protests. Probably some have been convicted. How anyone could compare that to money laundering, fraud and accepting Russian bribes begs belief.