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    Zack Polanski wins Green party leadership election
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    Zack Polanski wins Green party leadership election

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    1. limeflavoured on

      And by a massive landslide. Chowns and Ramsey never really seemed to get any momentum at all.

      Full disclosure that I’m a member of the party and voted for Polanski.

    2. HotelPuzzleheaded654 on

      If you asked AI to create a Green Party Leader it would spit out Polanski.

      IMO he’s going to do more harm than good because he won’t be able to broaden the appeal beyond their base and may even alienate some of the former Tory NIMBYs they’ve captured.

    3. GianfrancoZoey on

      Zack is whatever and I can’t see them really gaining much success electorally because of how the system works here, but I’m very pleased we’ll have someone in ‘the mainstream’ who is more than happy to mention topics that the rest of the media/political establishment avoid.

      Things like:
      * The political establishment’s (Peter Mandelson’s) connections to Epstein
      * Taking an aggressive stance against lobby groups like the Board of Deputies and UKLFI
      * Challenging the fake antisemitism nonsense that is constantly used to attack those who criticise Israel
      * Directly and loudly calling Israel’s actions genocide, in line with the consensus of academics and NGOs
      * Actually critiquing the corporate dominance of our politics by lobbyists (remains to be seen if he sticks by this one)
      * Going after Reform for their dodgy funding instead of completely capitulating to their rhetoric and validating their fear mongering
      * Questioning the incredibly strong mainstream narrative where NATO is the god of gods and any disagreement at all makes you a Russian agent (For example when he talked about Boris sabotaging peace talks)

      Since 2019(ish) we’ve had nothing like this in the mainstream, only a bunch of middle-managers sneering at the public and then wondering why Reform are surging.

    4. MultiMidden on

      Will be very very interesting to see how Corbyn’s YoUr PaRtY fares against a Green Party led by Polanski.

    5. Necessary-Product361 on

      He won by 20,411 to 3,705 votes! I thought he would win but not by that much. This is good news as hopefully he will move the greens away from nimbyism and to a more coherent left wing position. Also, there is now a greater chance of the Greens allying with “yourparty” at the next election, which could lead to the two of them gaining many Urban areas off of Labour.

    7. CurtisInCamden on

      I hope he can manage to refocus the party back towards green issues and away from the strange recent topic of ensuring the whole of the middle-east is ruled over by a single highly-conservative religion, as so many of the party (and the left generally) have become fixated on recently.

    10. FuzzBuket on

      Tbh if he drops the nuclear opposition he’s got a real shot. Everyone fucking hates labour and the Tories and rebanding the greens as “hey let’s just actually make life for the working and middle class a bit less shit” party is a big vote winner

      And hey, he can avoid the cardinal sins of UK left-wing politics, bacon sandwiches and being accused of antisemitism