Sexism/other issues in the Green party England & Wales - Discussion Thread 3

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Zack Polanski is making things bigger yet again so another thread needed.

Well things have developed rather a lot since the start. ZP started out as being another sexist guy in politics - no shortage those around, but he thought he could take it to a new level and he proved he could do it.

The Green threads have followed his rise from the start of with the Hypnoboobs scandal and much more. There is also:

Mothin Ali as deputy Leader who clearly doesn't believe in trans thinking, but cleverly sidesteps round talking about it, has always had a issues with encouraging racist violence and is now encouraging people to sue the Green party if they attempt to stop them saying racist stuff.

The other deputy Rachel Millward represents the posh rich faction of the Greens who manages to sounding like Reform when opposing Asylum Seekers in her area, but at the same time saying we are too harsh on immigrants in general. Obviously she also doesn't believe women are a thing. Yet she is the least crazy when violence is concerned compared to ZP, and Mothin.

Hypnoboobs scandal got worse recently when it became clear from BBC footage ZP actively believed in the Hypnoboobs thesis rather than being tricked into it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9enygvezeo

Alongside all this there is constant ongoing attacks on biological reality from the party in interviews and in policy.

Now in the last week or so after a longstanding spate of antisemetic rhetoric from some Greens during the election campaign and ZP downplaying it. We have synagogues, schools, ambulances attacked, two Jewish people dead and ZP berating unarmed police for risking their lives in fighting a violent killer who was still armed with a knife things have come to a crisis point.

The Greens are becoming ever more sinister with dozens of candidates sounding like they are seventies NF supporters with comments about uppity women and Jewish power. The huge drama over a crazy motion which they were trying to pass against Israel at conference alongside a motion to prevent women having sports will surface again their September conference.

It seems likely after next week The Greens are going to be running a bunch of councils which doesn't bode well after their antics in Bristol.

Yet there is hope, in Bristol women are fighting back_: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5455053-bristol-council-is-about-to-be-sued_

The fight back from Green Women's Declaration, ( https://www.greenwomensdeclaration.uk/ ) continues and the court cases against GPEW from Emma Bateman and Shahrar Ali are developing, both getting through legal delaying tactics as they move to trial. Gardening is needed. These cases if successful could be dramatic in their impact.

First thread - where you can follow the rise of ZP and lots of other scandal
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5328986-greens-internal-drama-warms-up

Second Thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5456759-sexismother-issues-in-the-green-party-england-wales-discussion-thread-2?

Note the Scottish Greens which are a separate party to the Green Party England/Wales have their own thread for all their sexist drama. They split off because GPEW didn't hate biology and women/gays enough at the time.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5313420-scottish-greens-being-sexist-again?page=1

There are rumours that the SGreens have won Glasgow Southside which if true means Kaukab Stewart is out.

I can't see anything on the interwebby, the only result so far for Scotland is LibD hold on to Orkney.

Polling in London of votes by ward suggest a straight switch from labour to green, eg hanwell in Ealing

https://nitter.net/ElectionMapsUK/status/2052682562313638176#m

But outside London the breakdowns area switch for on Labour to reform.

Eg Colchester

https://nitter.net/ElectionMapsUK/status/2052674896191213954#m

There is quite a bit as yet unofficial stuff reported here on the Times live article:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/8a40d4e3-0fcf-4cb4-a541-482ca19444b9?shareToken=2f7c9aa0ba9e8257ff617fadeb4c10f4&ver=article

In Lambeth there's an ultra green poss anarcho offshoot of extinction rebellion denting the green vote 🫪

https://nitter.net/Sam_Dumitriu/status/2052712247189758112#m

So far, the greens have gained 68 seats, and Reform have gained 665.

The green wave is about one tenth of that for Reform

Thanks for this Womenz

Was left with a cliffhanger of why he chose the name 'Zach'- As the rest of the story is paid subscribers only.

Please can you / someone do a summary!

I'm left hanging and need to know now!😂🙏

Millward doesn't know what a women is again looks bad. Remember they can NEVER put Mothin on these shows for obvious reasons.

https://x.com/salltweets/status/2052847172434214949

Results in locals for Greens in England good, but not the ,massive wave people thought might happen/ ZPs recent antics are part of that I think.

Noticeably another issue is Greens and Gaza Indys are fighting Labour over same pool of voters in some places.

I haven't paid yet can read the following paragraphs at the end of the article.

Let me tell you the extraordinary story behind Polanski’s choice of name. As far as I know it’s one no-one else has bothered to explore.

Meet the eight year old boy the leader of the Greens named himself after.

Zacharias Wrench, or Zach for short, is a character in a children’s book aimed at 10-14 year olds. A movie based on the book appeared in 1998 just three years before the young David Paulden adopted the name Zack in honour of this imaginary lad.

It was a choice that provides startling insights into the mind of a man who has transformed British politics.

As an update. Greens have gained overall control of Waltham Forest London borough, as well as Hackney where they've also got a green Mayor Zoe Garbutt. Already a thread on FWR

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5527195-zoe-garbett-green-mayor-for-hackney?reply=152181113

Lewisham also has a green Mayor. The greens have also got control of Norwich and Hastings

Thank you. Yes. That's where I got to. But what are those startling insights? Who is this TV character?
The rest of the post that delves into this is paid only.

Don't want to derail though!

I can live uncomfortably with the mystery.

Zacharias Wrench, or Zach for short, is a character in the book "Goodnight Mr Tom" which was a TV film starring John Thaw as Mr Tom. Zach is a Jewish boy of a similar age to the main protagonist who has also been evacuated from London.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Mister_Tom_(film)

Thanks @PrettyDamnCosmic

So Zack Polanski has a totally made up name.

A bit like Tommy Robinson, then.

It's an actor thing, I suppose. I know he says he wanted to reclaim his ancestry, but in Manchester at least Paulden would be read as a Jewish surname. But there's no doubt Zack Polanski sounds more hip and exciting than Dave Paulden.

Also, though he changed his name before moving into politics, in certain corners of left wing punditry there can be an actor-like advantage to, let's say, improving your name. Just ask Aaron Peters or Laura Barnett.

Mothin strangely close to Eden breaking Muslim rules unless Hills was a man of course.

https://x.com/JeanHatchet/status/2053337989531435072

The trend continues

Exclusive: Zack Polanski falsely claimed to have worked at the Ministry of Justice
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/10/zack-polanski-falsely-claimed-worked-ministry-justice/

Archive
https://archive.is/m2GDZ

When challenged over the discrepancies, the Green Party leader eventually admitted that, rather than working at the Ministry of Justice, he had been hired through an agency that supplied actors for role-play scenarios to a quango responsible for interviewing would-be judges.

And it just keeps getting worse. Gosh. What an accomplished faker he is, but did he not realise it would all fall apart under scrutiny? He makes Boris Johnson look like a paragon of authenticity.

rather than working at the Ministry of Justice, he had been hired through an agency that supplied actors for role-play scenarios to a quango responsible for interviewing would-be judges

That's so tenuous. As an accomplished astronaut that's actually been to mars twice, and done several fly-bys of Jupiter played a lot of space computer games when I was a teenager, I can tell you that's a lot of bullshit. The man's either been born missing the entire gene cluster responsible for shame, or he's been to Geneva and had a brass neck implanted.

That is the funniest thing I’ve heard all day. Hypnotits really is the gift that never stops giving.

He's "so 2026". No wonder he can offer free pudding to every young person gullible enough to believe him.
Some grifters play a very sophisticated game of grifting, sophisticated money making operations.
Some grifters are simply fantasists. Acting, therapy, activism, the whole Third Sector payola jobs for the boys.
But even here, it's not an "honest" grift, it's fake. Fake qualifications, fake therapy, fake CV , now fake would-be PM.

I think 'Walter Titty' is giving 'Hypnotits' a run for its money.

that's actually class, laughing at my desk

hahahaha

Can't claim credit, I'm afraid. It's being used on X