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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 4 days ago

"... and I think there's red lines, about how we should talk about things, and engage with things."

#ZackPolanski, UK Greens leader, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/12/164-zack-polanski-do-the-greens-have-what-it-takes/

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 4 days ago

"If we insulate every home in Britain that needs it, that would reduce people's bills - vital in the cost of living crisis - we'd reduce emissions - vital in the climate crisis - and crucially, it could create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That could be in the public sector, in trade unions, where people are being paid properly, treated with dignity and care."

#ZackPolanski, UK Greens leader, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/12/164-zack-polanski-do-the-greens-have-what-it-takes/

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 4 days ago

"I think it's the culture that has been bred in this country - and not just with antisemitism but lots of different issues - where people are terrified to talk about the issue, for fear of offending someone. Now, before I sound like I'm going on a 'cancel culture gone mad' tangent, I'm not at all. I think people should be compassionate and respectful ..."

#ZackPolanski, UK Greens leader, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/12/164-zack-polanski-do-the-greens-have-what-it-takes/

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#podcasts #GoalHanger #TheRestIsPolitics #Leading

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 4 days ago

"... and I think there's red lines, about how we should talk about things, and engage with things."

#ZackPolanski, UK Greens leader, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/12/164-zack-polanski-do-the-greens-have-what-it-takes/

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 4 days ago

#ZackPolanski, UK Greens leader, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/12/164-zack-polanski-do-the-greens-have-what-it-takes/

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#podcasts #GoalHanger #TheRestIsPolitics #Leading

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@Lazarou@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

#ZackPolanski #MattGoodwin #GortonAndDenton #GBNews #Greens #GreenParty #GPEW #ReformUK #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Rascism #WhiteNationalism #Fascism #AntiFascism

29mago 17.31 GMT

Afternoon summary
Matt Goodwin, the GB News presenter and former academic named today
as Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has
refused to disown his claim that UK-born people from minority ethnic
‘backgrounds are not necessarily British. The Green party leader, Zack
Polanski, said that, by choosing Goodwin as a candidate, Reform were
turning the byelection into “a straight contest between hope and hate”. He
went on:

44 The Green party will be out campaigning every day, to improve the cost of

living by taxing the super rich.

We alone will be taking the fight to Reform, whose selection of a man with a

track record of anti-Muslim bigotry in a community with a good history of

community relations is an insult to the people of Gorton and Denton.

It tells you everything you need to know that Reform are parachuting in this

rent-an-extremist; this isn’t about representing the people of Gorton and

Genton, it’s about using this place as a platform for their careers. — 29mago 17.31 GMT Afternoon summary Matt Goodwin, the GB News presenter and former academic named today as Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has refused to disown his claim that UK-born people from minority ethnic ‘backgrounds are not necessarily British. The Green party leader, Zack Polanski, said that, by choosing Goodwin as a candidate, Reform were turning the byelection into “a straight contest between hope and hate”. He went on: 44 The Green party will be out campaigning every day, to improve the cost of living by taxing the super rich. We alone will be taking the fight to Reform, whose selection of a man with a track record of anti-Muslim bigotry in a community with a good history of community relations is an insult to the people of Gorton and Denton. It tells you everything you need to know that Reform are parachuting in this rent-an-extremist; this isn’t about representing the people of Gorton and Genton, it’s about using this place as a platform for their careers.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@Lazarou@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

#ZackPolanski #MattGoodwin #GortonAndDenton #GBNews #Greens #GreenParty #GPEW #ReformUK #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Rascism #WhiteNationalism #Fascism #AntiFascism

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2legged

@2legged@mastodon.ie · 2 weeks ago

Happy Sunday, as the UK's so-called " #LabourParty" blocks #AndyBurnham's return to the #HouseOfCommons. 👍

#UKLabour's National Executive Commitee has refused #Burnham's request to be allowed to apply to be the by-election candidate in #GortonAndDenton.

Blocking the party's most popular man will

1/ start a huge row in the #RedTories, between fans of hard-right #Starmer and fans of soggy centrist #Burnham.

2/ hand the seat to #GPEW leader #ZackPolanski.

Great work, Starmer! 😈 😂 🤣 #Popcorn

Photonof Andy Burnham.

Below his face, a caution in large red text reads "blocked" — Photonof Andy Burnham. Below his face, a caution in large red text reads "blocked"

2legged

@2legged@mastodon.ie · 2 weeks ago

Happy Sunday, as the UK's so-called " #LabourParty" blocks #AndyBurnham's return to the #HouseOfCommons. 👍

#UKLabour's National Executive Commitee has refused #Burnham's request to be allowed to apply to be the by-election candidate in #GortonAndDenton.

Blocking the party's most popular man will

1/ start a huge row in the #RedTories, between fans of hard-right #Starmer and fans of soggy centrist #Burnham.

2/ hand the seat to #GPEW leader #ZackPolanski.

Great work, Starmer! 😈 😂 🤣 #Popcorn

Pauline von Hellermann

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · 3 weeks ago

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 81/n From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver

This is an incredible, moving personal perspective on this system that we are all entangled in, that shifts money to the few away from the rest of us at accelerating rate.

Having also experienced #Redundancy not too long ago and still very much in the doldrums of short term, part time jobs, this resonates deeply. So many are going through this, we need to help each other. #Precarity

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevescherer/p/my-journey-from-foreign-correspondent?r=4ug8&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America

I once documented human displacement and desperation; now I am living it

Pauline von Hellermann

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green replied · 3 weeks ago

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 82/n In the UK, the best thing you can do to try and mobilise against rising inequality is to join the Green Party!

This new campaign video by #ZackPolanski is brilliant. This too, reaonated deeply - this is me right now. We need to find ways to collectively stop running and pause!

https://youtu.be/bF_a_w7Dozo?si=ppSHwPEic6Zy4qH2

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 3 weeks ago

"For all the US' problems, this could never have happened in the US. Because of their First Amendment rights. But in our [UK] system, Parliament is sovereign, and it can basically do what it likes."

#LewisGoodall, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNRFTfK0fw

... and the same is true of the NZ Parliament.

#podcasts #BoldPolitics #Bold #ZackPolanski #FreedomOfExpression #FirstAmendment

stefania maurizi

@smaurizi@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

this declaration by UK GreenParty leader #ZackPolanski is explosive

Imagine if a major Italian party said: #Italy must close #USbases.
"Italy is home to the most comprehensive set of military capabilities [...] that we [US] have anywhere outside US", #WikiLeaks cables reveal

Matt

@matt@oslo.town · 3 months ago

Watched the Bloomberg Podcast where they interviewed racist shit-stirring gremlin and potential next Prime Minister of the UK, Nigel Farage.

It's not often he does such long interviews so it was interesting to hear him answer questions and observe his sneaky demeanour or snide remarks to the host.

Anyway, would love to see Mishal Husain interview Green Party's Zack Polanski too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uq_RRQxBAM

#Bloomberg #UKpol #Politics #NigelFarage #ZackPolanski #MishalHusain #GreensUK

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 3 months ago

"... add up the value of everything you own and minus your debts. Could you live on that for the rest of your life? ... If not, you're part of the big we, right? You're part of the movement, you're the 99%. If you can live off it for the rest of your life, we're coming for you."

#AshSarkar, 2025
https://shows.acast.com/bold-politics-with-zack-polanski/episodes/68b71504093397eb05dee4e5

This is a great interview. Lot's of insights I think are relevant to the social democratic left here too.

#podcasts #BoldPolitics #ZackPolanski #WeAreThe99%

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Pauline von Hellermann

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · 3 months ago

#ClimateDiary The UK #GreenParty now has over 150,000 members- ie we have more than doubled our membership since #ZackPolanski became leader on 2nd September - overtaking first the LibDems, then the Conservatives (who have 124,000) last weekend. I am too tired at the moment to get truly excited, and it’s only the beginning - so much work, so much organising to be done by all of us- but it’s quite something. #UKPolitics

Dark green poster with light green writing

150,000
Green Party Members

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ — Dark green poster with light green writing 150,000 Green Party Members Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Pauline von Hellermann

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green · 3 months ago

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

Malone claimed Polanski couldn’t have an opinion on women’s rights because he’s not a woman.

Polanski perfectly highlighted the ludicrous nature of this statement by pointing out that by this logic, Malone couldn’t have opinions about trans rights because she isn’t trans.

Praising how he dealt with the situation, one person wrote on X: “Calmly make solid points & they’ll rant, & shout & seethe as the mask just slides right off.”

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zack-polanski-carole-malone-jeremy-vine-show-399314/

#ZackPolanski #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS

The London Economic

Zack Polanski prompts right-winger meltdown on live TV

Zack Polanski prompted a right-wing meltdown from Daily Express columnist Carol Malone on national TV.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

A positive vision of Britain that doesn't involve waving flags mindlessly like MAGA Americans!

#GPEW #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #ZackPolanski #Polanski

3nago 14.21 BST

Polanski says Britain at its best when it's thoughtful,
considerate, kind’

Polanski ends with a story about a visit to a bakery that employs ex-
offenders.

44 I'want to end on a tiny moment, a small gesture but it’s something that’s
really stuck with me in this month. I went to visit the Dusty Knuckle near where
Ilive in Hackney.

It’s a bakery that employs people who have just come out of prison. Mentors go
to visit people just before they leave and smooth over a transition process to a
fresh start in life. It was an amazing visit where I was humbled to spend time
talking to so many different people each with their own different story.

The one that struck me though was a man who said it was his first day out of
prison. He arrived - terrified of this new life. He was a little late because it had
been years since he'd used public transport and there was a cup of tea waiting
for him. Someone knowing he was going to be late - had made the time to make
a stranger a cup of tea. A simple act of kindness from one stranger to another.
That’s what this country is when it’s at it’s best. And that matters today of all
days. It’s thoughtful, it’s considerate and it’s kind.

This May is huge - hateful, divisive politics is on the ballot paper. We can and
must reject that.

Let’s instead look after each other. The Green party’s moment is now. Let’s go.
And that’s it. — 3nago 14.21 BST Polanski says Britain at its best when it's thoughtful, considerate, kind’ Polanski ends with a story about a visit to a bakery that employs ex- offenders. 44 I'want to end on a tiny moment, a small gesture but it’s something that’s really stuck with me in this month. I went to visit the Dusty Knuckle near where Ilive in Hackney. It’s a bakery that employs people who have just come out of prison. Mentors go to visit people just before they leave and smooth over a transition process to a fresh start in life. It was an amazing visit where I was humbled to spend time talking to so many different people each with their own different story. The one that struck me though was a man who said it was his first day out of prison. He arrived - terrified of this new life. He was a little late because it had been years since he'd used public transport and there was a cup of tea waiting for him. Someone knowing he was going to be late - had made the time to make a stranger a cup of tea. A simple act of kindness from one stranger to another. That’s what this country is when it’s at it’s best. And that matters today of all days. It’s thoughtful, it’s considerate and it’s kind. This May is huge - hateful, divisive politics is on the ballot paper. We can and must reject that. Let’s instead look after each other. The Green party’s moment is now. Let’s go. And that’s it.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@Lazarou@mastodon.social replied · 4 months ago

This is pretty much the same conclusion Greta Thunberg came too, and why the Media suddenly soured on her
She's right and so is Zack, the Media is not our friend.

#GPEW #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #ZackPolanski #Polanski #ClimateChange #Inequality #GretaThunberg