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Greens internal drama warms up

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fromorbit · 05/05/2025 15:43

New long article looking at the drama inside the Greens over biology suddenly existing again despite their best efforts.

How the Green Party forgot the environment and was torn apart by trans rows
It was a party united by a single mission – to save the planet. But now the gender identity debate has left it divided and in chaos

https://archive.is/TOlNx

The article is already out of date as Zack Polanski of hypnotic breasts fame has just launched a leadership bid against Deyner and Ramsey.

Emma Bateman
It's no secret that big boobs Polanski wants the top job. He is a student politics slogan churner, a self server who distains women and wants misgendering misdemeanours to be grounds for expulsion from the Greens.
He is "LGB with the T"
Still NO DEBATE!

Pro-women Greens article on his background:;
https://concernedgreens.uk/watchlist/zack-polanski/

The existence of biology is likely to be a significant part of the leadership contest for sure so interesting to watch .

Ali Shahrar has launched another legal challenge against the Greens. Gardening needed.

May 27th is the date for Emma Bateman's legal hearing against the Greens.

On May 27th I am in court against Green Party in a case which will expose the contorted lengths the Greens go to in order to shut women up.

It isn't going to go well for the Greens given the Supreme Court ruling. This could be key moment in seeing the ruling's effect on politics and directly impact the leadership contest. It will also be probably be infuriating and hilarious in equal measure.

Zack Polanski – Concerned Greens

https://concernedgreens.uk/watchlist/zack-polanski

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ArabellaScott · 17/11/2025 11:40

Wonder how to spend it?

I think Emma Bateman, Shahrar Ali, and others may have a few ideas.

fromorbit · 17/11/2025 16:20

Lalgarh · 17/11/2025 11:20

An “equity, equality, diversity & inclusion and culture manager” is one of the posts being advertised as the party hopes to bring its total staff headcount towards 150 by the end of next year.

Any Mumsnetters want to go undercover and actually make the greens obey the law.

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Lalgarh · 17/11/2025 18:20

Lawyers. They'll be needing a legal team. Unless they are planning on using Jolyon Maughan

cariadlet · 17/11/2025 18:42

fromorbit · 17/11/2025 16:20

An “equity, equality, diversity & inclusion and culture manager” is one of the posts being advertised as the party hopes to bring its total staff headcount towards 150 by the end of next year.

Any Mumsnetters want to go undercover and actually make the greens obey the law.

The previous EEDI manager was very unpopular with the TRA clique in the Green Party because he didn't like the corruption that he saw and because he listened to all groups including Green Party Women.

It will be interesting to see who they appoint as his replacement.

Lalgarh · 17/11/2025 22:42

Polanski on newsnight actually having to not interrupt and being tamped down by another politician (Reform?) on the asylum rules

ArabellaScott · 18/11/2025 18:31

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/17/mamdani-polanski-and-the-scourge-of-the-theatre-kid-politician/

Article looking at the similarities between two wealthy, privileged men who have failed performance careers (I suppose one could say 'lack lustre' rather than failed) before moving into politics.

Mamdani, Polanski and the scourge of the ‘theatre kid’ politician

These two failed performers have finally found their audience.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/17/mamdani-polanski-and-the-scourge-of-the-theatre-kid-politician/

cariadlet · 18/11/2025 19:45

ArabellaScott · 18/11/2025 18:31

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/17/mamdani-polanski-and-the-scourge-of-the-theatre-kid-politician/

Article looking at the similarities between two wealthy, privileged men who have failed performance careers (I suppose one could say 'lack lustre' rather than failed) before moving into politics.

Thanks for sharing. Great article that skewers them both.

HildegardP · 18/11/2025 19:54

Lalgarh · 17/11/2025 11:20

They have a lot of legal fees to pay and if (I'm inclined to think "when") they lose the cases, what damages/ costs might they have to pay their opponents?
A Party needs money to run day-to-day & to fund its campaigning, add in recidivist law-breaking & £4million runs through careless hands fast. They were warned of the risk of bankruptcy after the last Shahir Ali case, a bankrupt Party can't legally continue, & I for one would laugh my arse off if the entryists' political legacy were to be the destruction of the host they've parasitised. Perhaps we might then get a genuinely environmentalist successor Party, instead of this clowncar full of opportunists.

Lalgarh · 18/11/2025 20:41

Polanski's Dad has "interests in a number of investment properties"???

LANDLORD ALERT! Sultana will have a field day

Ereshkigalangcleg · 19/11/2025 16:13

Ell Oh Ell!

RedToothBrush · 19/11/2025 16:19

ArabellaScott · 18/11/2025 18:31

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/17/mamdani-polanski-and-the-scourge-of-the-theatre-kid-politician/

Article looking at the similarities between two wealthy, privileged men who have failed performance careers (I suppose one could say 'lack lustre' rather than failed) before moving into politics.

They truly are 'Trump of the Left'

It highlights the degree to which personality politics dominates Western politics generally in 2025. There is no depth or credibility. Just spin, pr and being so confident it must be true otherwise why say it?

ArabellaScott · 19/11/2025 16:42

Lalgarh · 18/11/2025 20:41

Polanski's Dad has "interests in a number of investment properties"???

LANDLORD ALERT! Sultana will have a field day

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15161067/jet-setting-family-private-school-Zack-Polanski-working-class-hero.html

'Zack Polanski was born David Stephen Paulden (he later changed his name via deed poll). But his family don't appear to have been particularly impoverished.

Father Philip in 1984 set up Beronsand Limited, which lists its business as 'buying and selling of real estate'. On Companies House documents, he described his occupation as 'director,' as opposed to shop worker. Mother Ava was also a director of the firm, but resigned in 1992, having split from Philip. She remarried, for the third time, to one David Barrie in 1993, when Zack was 11.

Beronsand's financial clout is unclear, since it has only ever filed abbreviated accounts, but around the time Polanski was at private secondary school it was listing a bank balance in the tens of thousands of pounds, plus interests in a string of investment properties in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, including three homes next door to each other.'

Why Zack Polanski isn't the working class hero he'd have you believe

The charismatic 42-year-old vegan is being feted as a sort 'Farage of the Left', who argues that the economy has been 'rigged' for the super-rich.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15161067/jet-setting-family-private-school-Zack-Polanski-working-class-hero.html

Lalgarh · 19/11/2025 16:57

Not just a landlord but a SLUM landlord

Ereshkigalangcleg · 19/11/2025 17:23

Also hilarious that he’s actually a Dave not a born Zack.

ArabellaScott · 19/11/2025 18:28

Good god, a principled politician. Don't see many of those these days. Well done, Ms O'Rourke. She deserves thank you cards.

lcakethereforeIam · 19/11/2025 18:39

She is principled 👏. Seems to be wasting her time with some of her former colleagues. I hope some of the others are listening.

Lalgarh · 20/11/2025 00:15

The BBC story on this only mentions the nub of the issue by way of a quote from her, near the end.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2025v7qleo.amp

lcakethereforeIam · 20/11/2025 11:05

Has that article about Cllr O'Rourke quitting the Greens been changed? I could have sworn the Green spokesperson had a name when i first read it.

I noticed this linked article

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3d5glz1k4o

Something rotten in the state of Bristol.

I'd like to ask the Green spokesperson how women could ask these questions in a way that wouldn't cause walkouts or the flourishing of tawdry signs?

A man standing in front of Bristol's City Hall

'Culture of non-transparency' over FOIs at Bristol City Council

Figures show answering FOI requests on time has barely improved since a 2024 enforcement notice.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3d5glz1k4o

NasturtiumsAreUnderrated · 20/11/2025 18:31

Yuck.

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