New Green leader Polanski uses Any Questions to rant about Glinner

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Only half heard this but there was a question about freedom of speech, and Polanski chose to use a very selective quote "from Glinner" to then say it is right that those encouraging violence should be prosecuted. (I wonder what he thinks about the "Punch a Terf" quote being permissable as only said for publicity).

Sadly the only one to challenge him was a journalist, who I think is from the Telegraph who had made herself unpopular with the audience by saying Ukraine was losing the war and should give up.

Disclaimer: I wasn't fully concertrating, but this is how it sounded to me!

Am really only posting as despite FWR following the court case closely I dont think many others are.

And judging by yesterday's coverage the news outlets aren't any where near as interested in what Glinner's testimony has been as they were of that of his accuser the previous day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002htdy

Urgh, really can't stand Polanski. Doesn't surprise me though, he is one of those politicians who is hopelessly out of touch and still thinks that the majority of the general public believe in gender woo.

Oh dear. So no change there , then. The Environment and climate disaster is a bit boring and passé now I guess.

Polanski does look full of shite and will probably only last five minutes

In case anyone didn't see it on one of the many threads about the armed airport arrest, this clearly shows Polanski's position.

Zack Polanski: the police were right to arrest Graham Linehan
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/zack-polanski-linehan-arrest-was-proportionate/
Article in full at https://archive.is/BD4gr

I suspect the more the public is exposed to ZP, the more they'll realise what an utter self obsessed not terribly bright arse he is. Fortunately the greens are nowhere near gaining national power

Apparently he once claimed he could make a women's boobs bigger with hypnotism 😂

Mumsnet has been watching the Greens and Polanski for while. The internal politics is covered in this thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5328986-greens-internal-drama-warms-up

I still don’t get what’s so bad about advice mums have been dishing out to teenage daughters since forever:

If in a confined space with a man being creepy

1. make a loud fuss and call for help
2. if possible call the police
3. if all else fails punch (well I’d have said knee) him in the balls

All the context seems to have disappeared in the reporting/discussion.
Plus, once again, this isn’t about transwomen, it’s about men - any men - being in women’s space.

Polanski is an idiot, the environment needs better!

Seems the Greens in Scotland are just as hard line.

Not bothered about Independence for Scotland, that's okay with us.

Dont think TWAW? That is totally unacceptable!

Voters should not back Scottish Greens if they do not think trans women are women, new leaders say
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/09/voters-not-back-scottish-greens-trans-women-are-women/
and also at https://archive.is/wLWfS

'Racism comes from poverty'

There are people who are racist, and we can have a longer conversation about where that racism comes from, because I believe that probably comes from poverty. I think if you don’t have scarcity in your life, and if you feel safe and secure, why would you hate another person?”

To assert that racism comes from poverty is outrageous, I say, loudly enough that Green Party staff sitting 20ft away start to turn heads.

“Hold on, there are lots of very wealthy people who are also racist,” he begins. So your argument does not work, I say.

“Well, no, it does,” he says, rehashing his argument, before adding that if you are in poverty, “it is very easy to be whipped up by the rich”, and right now, “the super wealthy are utilising working-class resentment and unhappiness with poverty to whip up hate against migrants”.

Polanski acknowledges the history of working-class people standing up against fascism. But racism and anti-immigration beliefs are not the same.

https://inews.co.uk/news/racism-comes-poverty-new-green-party-leader-zack-polanski-3908453

Polanski couldn't find his arse with both hands and a torch - even if someone else was holding the torch.

Operation Let Them Speak rumbles on, I see. Let them crack on I say, let the world see their ridiculous views.

This seems to be a whole new level of out to lunch musings.

If "the ordinary man (or woman) in the street" said something like that is a vox pop situation there would be sniggering by the broadcaster.

But apart from die hard greens wonder how many people take any notice.

But still we need to hoard up these quotes, should the time come at the next election that someone tries to make out he is normal.