Zack Polanski has perfectly responded to nasty personal attacks against him from Jeremy Clarkson.
Over the weekend, Clarkson hit out at Polanski’s appearance in his column for the Sunday Times.
The former Top Gear presenter chose to focus on the politician’s teeth in this particularly churlish attack on him.
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The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month.
It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500.
If the same momentum continues, party officials say, they could be on course to become bigger than the Conservatives. Tory party membership figures are not made public, but recent reports say the total is slightly above 120,000.
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The Greens’ surge has caused worries among some senior Labour figures, who believe it could take votes and seats from the party in next May’s local elections in England, particularly in some London boroughs.
Polanski has repeatedly set out what he sees as the Greens’ ambition to supplant Labour. In a speech this month to the party’s annual conference, he said that without action Keir Starmer would “hand this country on a plate” to Reform UK.
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https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbcs-institutional-anti-left
The BBC’s decision to cancel a planned conference interview with new Green leader Zack Polanski on the Laura Kuenssberg show on Sunday has caused fury within the party.
As I report today for Byline Times, the decision to scrap the interview came after the show also refused to have him on last month, following his election as party leader, choosing to instead invite Nigel Farage.
Green party sources are particularly furious with the reason they were given for this week’s cancellation, which is that the show needed more time to cover the Manchester synagogue terror attack.
This is particularly galling for Polanski, who is both Jewish and from Manchester, and yet was denied his chance to have his voice heard.
Polanski suggested on social media that the decision to cancel may have been due to his position on Gaza. The BBC declined to comment on their reason, saying only that he had been interviewed elsewhere on the BBC during the Green party conference and would be invited on the show in “the coming weeks”.
However, it is not the first time that the BBC has been accused of ignoring the Greens and others on the left of British politics.
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Greens say Tory policy announcements are a ‘cruel attack’ and ‘show a party quickening its pace towards oblivion.’
Reacting to a host of ‘nasty’ policy proposals that have been announced since the start of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, co-deputy leader of the Green Party, Mothin Ali, said:
“The announcements from Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party so far show the Tories are looking to outflank Reform for divisiveness and hatred. But they also show a party quickening its pace towards oblivion.
“The package so far – turbo charged welfare cuts, draconian anti-migration measures, and axing life-saving foreign aid – would leave few but the wealthiest unscathed. These measures are a cruel attack on the sick and disabled, migrants and asylum seekers, and some of the poorest communities in the world.
“Nastiness is now at the very core of the Conservative Party. What a contrast to the vision of hope and bold politics witnessed at our own conference where we reaffirmed our policies to tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly and say unequivocally that refugees are welcome here.”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/10/03/zack-polanski-calls-for-an-end-to-palestine-actions-proscription
Speaking at the 2025 Green Party Conference, Zack Polanski has called on the government to reverse the proscription of Palestine Action:
Amnesty UK described Palestine Action’s terrorist proscription as “disturbing” and an ‘unprecedented legal overreach’. Following the move, there have been months of protests opposing the Home Office’s decision.
Polanski was addressing Green Party members at the 2025 conference:
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