Polanski is a buffoon

[Bertiebiscuit]

How anyone can take the Green party leader Zac Polanski seriously is completely beyond me. He has zero grasp of economics, beyond conning women out of ££££s by pretending he could hypnotise them to increase their bust measurements. He is the worst representative of gay men who worship the men pretending to be women, with no regard for womens and girls' right to privacy, dignity and safety. The man is a 24 carat buffoon.

Yes, I agree.

The Greens are supposed to care about nature, yet they support mass immigration. Where do they think those immigrants are going to live? This is a small, overcrowded island. In the last decade, my local woods have been hacked down and replaced with two housing estates, including blocks of flats. Then they built a second giant estate at the other end of the village. Now we’ve been told the fields in the centre of the village are going to have 400 new houses built on them. All the villages round here are being destroyed by developers, and the country lanes are choked with traffic. Judging by the languages spoken on those new estates, I’d say at least half the residents weren’t born in the UK.

More tax, more migration - no thanks.

Bigger boobs - again, no thanks.

Polanski will definitely destroy sex based rights for women and girls, as a priority. What have Reform promised to do?

Slightly irrelevant as Polanski isn't American.

Nigel, that you?

But have you looked at what those references are? They mainly just news references with other right wing party leaders (mainly the same article), nothing looks very damning, Badenock keeps saying she not in the files but she is mentioned twice. Starmers mentioned 25 times. Blair gets 229. Queen Elizabeth scores 85 mentions.

Or Matt perhaps?

Let me get this straight:

Women who don’t like Polanski (for valid reasons), and - by extension - the Green Party, are Nigel Farage?? If you’re not Polanski then you must be Farage?

Zero critical thinking.

I keep seeing that on here about being mentioned but no one puts context, as you say all those names are in there.

I know, we've all been there. Embarrassing articles in the sun about hypnosis and boob jobs. How could that possibly go wrong? No one could really call that bad judgement or low grade behaviour. I think it shows excellent leadership qualities.

I've only ever voted Labour or Green (admittedly mostly Labour) but I wouldn't vote for ZP. I strongly dislike his stances on women's rights, drugs, & his focus on Gaza.

I'm not against wealth taxes in principle, but I am sceptical they will help much and could be a disaster if implemented badly.

Not sure if he has the same asylum policy as the last few green leaders, (to open up safe legal routes) but I am sceptical this can work without fixed numbers caps, which the greens will likely think are immoral.

Mickey Mouse is there 18 times. Maybe we should all be boycotting disneyplus.

I would put say it means he brings as innovate approach to cost saving the NHS.

Such an infantile thing to say. I think that Polanski and Farage are two sides of the same coin. Both terrifying despite their policy differences. To dismiss those who don't support him as Reform voters is naive at best.

As far as taxing the rich, there are only 55 billionairs in the UK

Approximately 2.6 to 3 million millionaires live in the UK, representing roughly 4.5% to 4.8% of the adult population.

While UBS/Credit Suisse estimates showed over 3 million total millionaires in 2023, forecasts predict a decline to roughly 2.54 million by 2028.

So nearly a decline of half a million millionairs by 2028, how are you going to tax them more without chasing them off to 0 tax Dubai or other places?

Also he wants to reduce restrictions to immegration, but the vast majority of immegrants come with low skills, which means that the cost of subsedised housing and support averages at half a million per person over their lifetime, that's roughly the lifetime tax revenue for someone on £30,000 wage, the 'break even' point per person.

This was in the Guardian today. I think it's probably fairly accurate.

In 2013 a Sun journalist asked if he could hypnotise her into having bigger breasts. “She said, ‘Are you willing to do it as an experiment?’ I said, ‘Yes, so long as you make it clear it’s not something I normally do, and it’s your idea.’ She then wrote this absurd article saying it worked, which should be the biggest clue the whole thing is nonsense. What’s important is I’m not just saying this retrospectively. I went out on radio the next day and said this article doesn’t represent me.
I quote from the Sun: “This is an extremely new approach but I can see it becoming popular very quickly, because it’s so safe and a lot cheaper than a boob job.”
Did he actually say that? He looks sheepish. “Yeah, I said that, because once you’ve accepted you’re doing it as an experiment, you go along with the absurdity of it.” The piece said he charged £220 a session. He insists the Sun never paid him a penny, and he charged drama students whatever they could afford.

It definitely sounds like something that would happen in a Sun interview so Polanski was naive. I don't like or dislike him but posters are talking as though he's got a chance of forming a government. I think it's positive to see the rise of smaller parties because of the far-right Reform keeps its trajectory (and that remains to be seen), there'll be a lot of organised tactical voting going on at the next GE and there needs to be parties that people who don't want to vote Labour can opt for.
Daft to say Polanski's dangerous though. Hubristic, inexperienced maybe.

How many more of these planted political threads are we going to endure?

He’s a fucking imbecile and I really hope that his sudden fan base is down to a collective lapse in intelligence rather than anything permanent.

I will never, ever forget how much the Green Party hate women. None of us should. From referring to women as “non men” to be “inclusive, to trying to rectory c-sections, for supporting predatory men being in our spaces, and now a leader who lied to vulnerable women about increasing their breast size…I’d be very disappointed in any woman that supports them now. Like Turkeys voting for Christmas

Not to mention this week Polanski celebrated a man getting away with sinking a sledgehammer into a woman’s back and congratulated the jury (who came to no decision).

Yes, it's a Jewish surname.

If you know that why did you ask why he chose that particular one?

Nah, I just think these types of threads are created by opposing political parties; another stealth strategy to destabilise and manipulate the electorate. Mumsnet is another stealth place and it happens often, much like journalists who plant stories within Mumsnet too.

The amount of houses being built on the countryside in the county where I live is staggering. The greenbelt is becoming non-existent; ancient woods and trees have already gone; villages and small towns are doubling or tripling in size, basically becoming part of urban sprawl; and the amount of traffic is insane. The Green Party doesn't care about politically inconvenient green issues. It feels like parts of the countryside are being lost forever to sustain a level of immigration that nobody but global business corporations and ideologue politicians asked for.

Will 16 and 17 year olds be able to vote in the next general election? If so I think the greens will do extremely well.

I know, it’s Hypnotic Tit Defecit Wokester vs Hypocrital Tit Deficit Blokester.