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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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

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They aren't angry already? Maybe they'd feel better if they went out and destroyed some priceless artwork.
1 posted on 08/18/2025 3:26:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I thought the blue hair and nose ring was them telling us they’re angry.


2 posted on 08/18/2025 3:28:36 PM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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The real problem, he continues, are the "super-rich and their yachts".

Green Party indeed.

3 posted on 08/18/2025 3:28:41 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

Green in name only.


4 posted on 08/18/2025 3:29:30 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: nickcarraway

Watermelon Greens. Green on the outside, Communist red on the inside.


5 posted on 08/18/2025 3:29:31 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: nickcarraway

When you come to a crossroads, take it.


6 posted on 08/18/2025 3:33:13 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Invest in pink and blue hair dyes.


7 posted on 08/18/2025 3:34:26 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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They’ve been angry since they were born.


8 posted on 08/18/2025 3:43:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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The only thing the Greens need to be angry about is dedicating their lives to a lie.


9 posted on 08/18/2025 3:44:22 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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The real problem, he continues, are the "super-rich and their yachts".

Turns out it's easy being green after all.

10 posted on 08/18/2025 3:55:08 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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11 posted on 08/18/2025 4:17:17 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: Billthedrill

But it makes them feel superior to the rest of us.


12 posted on 08/18/2025 4:18:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Texas Eagle; FreedomPoster

It seems to me the Green Party should love billionaires, because no on in our society pushes for dramatics responses to climate change like billionaires. Am I wrong? They also seem the most devoted to bringing socialism.


13 posted on 08/18/2025 4:20:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Texas Eagle

Green with envy.


14 posted on 08/18/2025 4:58:42 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: No name given

Yes. My wife loves nature and she started seeing through the scam of these environmental groups over 25 years ago. They purport to be for the environment, but then they want to fill the country up to maximum density with Third World immigrants.


15 posted on 08/18/2025 5:23:48 PM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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Please no. I’m sick of all this faux outrage.

People need to get a grip and learn to live with not getting their own way all the time.


16 posted on 08/18/2025 6:26:35 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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Where is the video?


17 posted on 08/18/2025 7:27:17 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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He should be disqualified from any public appearance simply for being so fugly! What an eye sore! Polanski is gay, vegan and lives in Hackney.[


18 posted on 08/18/2025 7:33:08 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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,,, if he couldn’t make it acting, the Greens are the next rung down on the ladder for him. Cleaners, truck drivers, office workers and everyone else who aren’t challenged by commonsense and basic economics are voting for Farage.


19 posted on 08/18/2025 7:44:51 PM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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They want small boats banned...? Sorry, not happening here. In the UK, they might accept it, though the marine industries in the UK is big.


20 posted on 08/18/2025 8:21:59 PM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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