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The Green Party is at a crossroads. Is it time they get angry?
BBC ^ | 10/19 | Helen Catt

Posted on 08/18/2025 3:26:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Warning: This article contains strong language

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The video opens with some white cliffs and a politician standing on a beach. This isn't Dover, and it's not Nigel Farage (although the echoes with Reform UK are deliberate). Rather, it's a campaign video for the Green Party's leadership hopeful, Zack Polanski.

Amid slick filming and a moody orchestral soundtrack, he delivers an animated and uncompromising message.

Small boats, he declares, are an "obsession that has gripped the country," blamed for a "crumbling" NHS and "obscene" rents, while people are told there's no money left.

"Well," he says, looking into the camera, "I call B.S."

The real problem, he continues, are the "super-rich and their yachts".

Zack Polanski, a former actor who is the party's deputy leader, has turbo-charged the race The Green Party is on the brink of choosing its new leader. It usually does it once every two years and the contest can go fairly unnoticed.

Not this year.

Polanski, a former actor who is the party's deputy leader, has turbo-charged the race, the result of which will be announced on 2 September.

He calls his approach "eco-populism" and says it's about being "bolder" and more clearly anti-elite in communicating social and economic issues, as well as environmental ones.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: commies; europe; greenparty; politics
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To: nickcarraway

What’s the difference between an environmental ‘activist’ and an actor? I’m stumped.


21 posted on 08/19/2025 7:39:47 AM PDT by Clioman
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To: nickcarraway

Polanski, China is the problem you left wing tool.


22 posted on 08/19/2025 7:42:12 AM PDT by Chgogal (Voting Democrat is suicidal.)
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