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Zack Polanski

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BlueSkySunshineDay · 14/09/2025 07:35

I’m seriously impressed with this guy. Anyone else find him refreshingly honest and sensible?

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BurntBroccoli · 06/10/2025 21:12

TeenagersAngst · 06/10/2025 06:43

So once we’ve redistributed all the wealth and spent it, then what happens?

Watch this
https://www.reddit.com/r/UKGreens/s/4tID6nJ7bF

JustWaking · 06/10/2025 21:22

BurntBroccoli · 06/10/2025 20:51

Can’t you see how unfair that a nurse could be taxed 40% of a wage while those who own vast amounts of land, property and inherited wealth pay next to nothing? Compound interest means their wealth is growing while the rest get poorer.

A band 6 nurse might earn £46k, and will pay £9360 tax and NI on that.

Do you really think that someone who owns vast amounts of land, property and wealth is paying less than £9360 tax per year?!?

In fact, sixty of the wealthiest people in the UK collectively contributed more than £3bn a year in 2021/22. That's an average of £50million tax paid by each individual. Five thousand times more tax from each of them than from the nurse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlvggr9qz5o

How much more of their own personal money - made by their ancestors or themselves and saved/invested rather than spent - do you believe they should be giving to you, in order to "pay their way"?

99point9FahrenheitDegrees · 06/10/2025 21:56

His interview on the News Agents was the most excruciatingly tone deaf thing I've heard in a long time. My favourite bit was where he excused his use of a piece of jargon as not being accessible to the masses (he was talking about how comms to the wider population being v NB) as being ok to use here as the masses don't listen to this podcast. Actual LOL at the journo reaction

BurntBroccoli · 06/10/2025 22:00

JustWaking · 06/10/2025 21:22

A band 6 nurse might earn £46k, and will pay £9360 tax and NI on that.

Do you really think that someone who owns vast amounts of land, property and wealth is paying less than £9360 tax per year?!?

In fact, sixty of the wealthiest people in the UK collectively contributed more than £3bn a year in 2021/22. That's an average of £50million tax paid by each individual. Five thousand times more tax from each of them than from the nurse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlvggr9qz5o

How much more of their own personal money - made by their ancestors or themselves and saved/invested rather than spent - do you believe they should be giving to you, in order to "pay their way"?

They are not paying 40% of their unearned wealth are they? That’s because most of it is invested in offshore bank accounts so we really have no idea exactly how much they are actually worth.

JustWaking · 06/10/2025 22:30

BurntBroccoli · 06/10/2025 22:00

They are not paying 40% of their unearned wealth are they? That’s because most of it is invested in offshore bank accounts so we really have no idea exactly how much they are actually worth.

It's earned. Just not swapped for time - swapped for deferred spending instead.

They are paying much, much more tax than the nurse.

The nurse isn't paying 40% of her income in tax, by the way. More like 25%. The higher rate is only paid on the bit of her income above the threshhold. And she's getting more than the £10k she's paying back in state services, including her fair share of running the country.

TeenagersAngst · 06/10/2025 22:48

BurntBroccoli · 06/10/2025 20:51

Can’t you see how unfair that a nurse could be taxed 40% of a wage while those who own vast amounts of land, property and inherited wealth pay next to nothing? Compound interest means their wealth is growing while the rest get poorer.

That doesn’t answer my question.

TeenagersAngst · 06/10/2025 22:54

BurntBroccoli · 06/10/2025 21:12

Why are you telling me to watch this? All he’s saying is that he doesn’t agree with people investing their money and watching it grow. That money is only rightly theirs if it’s been paid to them in exchange for their labour. So should we all cash out our ISAs because ‘it’s not fair’?

Zack is a fan of wealth redistribution and I’m sure in student politics lectures, it sounds like a great idea. Just not in practice.

BurntBroccoli · 09/10/2025 20:24

Zack is appearing on Question Time tonight! BBC1 10.40pm.
Membership has grown to 95,000 members now!

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BlueSkySunshineDay · 10/10/2025 20:45

It was fantastic to see him tell Zia Yusuf he’s a facist! 🙌👏

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TeenagersAngst · 11/10/2025 18:20

BlueSkySunshineDay · 10/10/2025 20:45

It was fantastic to see him tell Zia Yusuf he’s a facist! 🙌👏

Zia Yusuf did follow that up with a fantastic takedown. Zack Polanski is just not a serious potential leader of a country. How can anyone think he is?

BlueSkySunshineDay · 12/10/2025 00:09

Oh dear he’s disturbed me today saying that a woman can have a penis. FFS ZACK!!!!!

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PotatoesandOatsforlife · 12/10/2025 10:03

luckylavender · 14/09/2025 08:57

@Zonder- saying things you regret is one thing. Saying things which are clearly ridiculous (& harmful) is worth considering someone’s intelligence.

He didn't say that though. I can't believe how many people have fallen for the hypno-boob slander.

He explains it perfectly here, from around the 30.05 mark. The whole interview is worth listening. But, if you don't have the time or inclination, please just listen to his short, clear explanation of what happened there. The Sun slandered him basically -

TeenagersAngst · 14/10/2025 08:52

PotatoesandOatsforlife · 12/10/2025 10:03

He didn't say that though. I can't believe how many people have fallen for the hypno-boob slander.

He explains it perfectly here, from around the 30.05 mark. The whole interview is worth listening. But, if you don't have the time or inclination, please just listen to his short, clear explanation of what happened there. The Sun slandered him basically -

“He explains it perfectly…” aka “He tells the story in words that make him sound less ridiculous and a victim of evil journalism”

So was he stupid or naive? Either way, great skills in a future political party leader. It does however explain why he thinks female mammals can have a penis.

Lottapianos · 14/10/2025 13:30

'It does however explain why he thinks female mammals can have a penis'

I saw a clip of him a few days ago telling Piers Morgan that some women have a penis. I'm no fan of Piers Morgan but he just burst out laughing and told Polanski he was being ridiculous and I thought good for him. Very appropriate response

BurntBroccoli · 15/10/2025 08:30

BlueSkySunshineDay · 12/10/2025 00:09

Oh dear he’s disturbed me today saying that a woman can have a penis. FFS ZACK!!!!!

He means trans women who can indeed have a penis.
That interview was shocking. Zack tried to talk about inequality several times but Morgan just wanted to talk about the trans issue. Again!

Green party membership is still growing massively! 110,000 now

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PotatoesandOatsforlife · 15/10/2025 09:24

I definitely don't agree with his stance on trans issues. But, that's a separate issue from the hypno-boob slander. He's explained it so clearly, but the establishment are threatened by him, so they continue to twist it to smear him.

It's a shame about his views on trans women. But, for that, I agree with almost all his other policies. Not all of them.

One thing I will say is that at least he's honest about his views on trans matters. Those culture war questions (which I don't like anyway) are often not answered properly by politicians, but skirted round, as they want to appeal to everyone. He answered clearly, and I do admire that, even if I didn't like the answer.

Also, to be fair, it was Piers Morgan who brought that up. Zack was trying to talk about wealth inequality, but Morgan was steering the conversation away from that. I think Piers Morgan bullied him a bit actually.

The thing is, Zack's right when he says most people don't think about trans stuff much. Most people are too busy trying to work and pay their bills etc. Mumsnet really isn't representative where trans stuff is concerned. Most people don't have strong opinions one way or the other. I'm a bit like that. I definitely don't think women can have a willy! That's bonkers to me. But, also, honestly, I'm concerned about 1000 other things, and don't have much thinking time left for it.

I like Zack Polanski, though I don't agree with him about everything 😊

oldwhyno · 15/10/2025 09:44

if he'll lie about thinking women can have a penis, he'll lie about anything.

PotatoesandOatsforlife · 15/10/2025 10:05

oldwhyno · 15/10/2025 09:44

if he'll lie about thinking women can have a penis, he'll lie about anything.

Respectfully, I think that's unfair. I don't think he's lying as such. I think he genuinely thinks that, as he believes in defining men/women in terms of gender rather than biological sex. I disagree with him, but that doesn't make him a liar. Just someone with a different viewpoint.
I think he's a good man. I don't have to agree with him on everything.
Obviously for many gender critical folks, it'd be the most important issue, and prevent them voting Green, which is absolutely fine. But, it's not the clincher for me. I'm much more worried about climate change, child poverty, wealth inequality, animal welfare, the NHS, education etc. So, I feel I could still vote Green, even if I disagree on the trans issue.

BurntBroccoli · 15/10/2025 10:24

PotatoesandOatsforlife · 15/10/2025 10:05

Respectfully, I think that's unfair. I don't think he's lying as such. I think he genuinely thinks that, as he believes in defining men/women in terms of gender rather than biological sex. I disagree with him, but that doesn't make him a liar. Just someone with a different viewpoint.
I think he's a good man. I don't have to agree with him on everything.
Obviously for many gender critical folks, it'd be the most important issue, and prevent them voting Green, which is absolutely fine. But, it's not the clincher for me. I'm much more worried about climate change, child poverty, wealth inequality, animal welfare, the NHS, education etc. So, I feel I could still vote Green, even if I disagree on the trans issue.

Great response! I think Zack said he’d be happy if people agreed on 7/10 of Green policies.

LarkspurLane · 15/10/2025 10:47

oldwhyno · 15/10/2025 09:44

if he'll lie about thinking women can have a penis, he'll lie about anything.

Do you think he's lying about his views on this, that he actually does not believe this?
I assumed that he did (wrongly) believe it.

I was totally anti Green because I disagree with them so much on this, but I am coming around to them in other ways, especially as the alternative is so grim.

JazzyJelly · 15/10/2025 12:38

BurntBroccoli · 15/10/2025 10:24

Great response! I think Zack said he’d be happy if people agreed on 7/10 of Green policies.

I agree with most Green policies. But when one policy is 'no rights for women, rapists in women's prisons and refuges' the rest of their policies become utterly irrelevant.

finallygettingit · 15/10/2025 12:57
  1. I agree that trans issues aren't a top priority for many people. But when they realise they, or someone they care about, is expected to share a changing room with a person of the opposite sex, or when their daughter has to race/compete against someone who has gone through male puberty, or their elderly mother is in a hospital bay with a man....then it will be a priority
  2. Zak Polanski is just doing mental gymnastics if he claims to really believe that trans identified men (AKA transwomen) are women. Basically he has redefined the word 'woman' in his head. Of course he's not alone in that and the mental strain must be exhausting. But male/female man/woman are common sense categories which are based in scientific observation.
All of the Green party's policies on the climate crisis and environmental collapse are based in science, and that's why we should take those policies seriously. But their credibility to speak on those issues just evaporates when they also tell us that men can become women. Every single person on this planet was born from a female body and every single person on this planet (barring LDs and infancy) knows it. Future historians are going to have real trouble figuring how this delusion took hold.
Lottapianos · 15/10/2025 13:00

'Zak Polanski is just doing mental gymnastics if he claims to really believe that trans identified men (AKA transwomen) are women. Basically he has redefined the word 'woman' in his head'

He said to Piers Morgan that 'woman is a gender' and that sex isn't binary because it's way more complicated than that 🙄 so 'woman' is just a concept / feeling / fantasy as far as Zak is concerned

FlirtsWithRhinos · 15/10/2025 13:50

BurntBroccoli · 15/10/2025 10:24

Great response! I think Zack said he’d be happy if people agreed on 7/10 of Green policies.

It's not just a difference of opinion though is it. It's alignment with an ideology that is actively seeking to undefine and delegitimise biological sex, in particular female biology, as something people can even consider, as a basis upon which people can understand and speak about themselves.

Female people do have a history of and indeed in many ways still do face being sidelined, exploited and abused as a direct result of our physical sex and how our sex is seen within our culture.

We do have very good reasons to speak about the challenges and experiences that come with that body and to sometimes need single sex spaces or other resources either for protection or empowerment.

So this social change, not organic but defined and imposed upon us politically, is a massive thing to do to half the human race.

Now even with ll that said, perhaps undefining "women" in the original meaning as a valid legal and social group is still, given the needs of trans people, a reasonable thing to do.

However, if it is a reasonable thing to do it should also be reasonable to talk about it openly and honestly with the people being most impacted.

But when it comes to Gender Identity and GPEW that isn't what is happening.

The opposing voice, the other perspective, isn't just being treated as "you can make your case but it's not GPEW policy", it is being actively censored.

That is the problem. Not that the GPEW policy is falling on the other side of a contentious question but that they are pretending there is no legitimacy ti the other side. No conversation needs to be had to justify undefining the historically meaningful group "women".

So no, this is not just a normal 7/10 agreement issue, and it isn't just about TW vs women's rights.

It is a fundamental crisis of morality and leadership.

it's a decision about the type of politics and society you want: one that allows for honest debate or one that forces its agenda through silencing and denial.

LarkspurLane · 15/10/2025 14:17

I think there was a time very recently when the Greens were trying to expel people from the party who did not take their trans stance.
If that is how they still stand then of course I could not vote for them.
It's more than just something we disagree on.
It would be like taking any one other policy (I think we should have tax on wine) and saying you couldn't join if you disagreed with that.