Zack Polanski Will Ethically Disrupt UK Politics

A New Era Of Empathetic Politics Has Arrived

Zack Polanski is the brightest hope the Green Party has ever had in England and Wales. That’s no discredit to previous green luminaries - he’s just the right person at the right time with the right method and message to take on the right - and the far right.

He has just been elected Green Party leader - he defeated Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns with a landslide 20,411 to 3,705 votes margin.

Judging by what I’ve seen of him in the past, the UK political scene is about to be shaken up.

Nigel Farage and Reform UK have had the media in their pockets for some time now, together stirring up hate and division over illegal immigration.

No politician from the left has managed to cut through the noise and counter Reform’s arguments. Polanski will do that. He is highly skilled in communicating with audiences, through TV, social media, podcasts, videos and wherever else his tireless work takes him.

He speaks his mind. And he does it better than Farage, or Trump, or any other populist - because he’s not just barking out soundbites; Zack’s brand of Green populism is built on facts, knowledge, empathy and a better way of doing politics.

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The Greens recorded their best ever UK parliamentary result last year, securing four MPs - but in reality that’s not much better than the one MP they had before. You need a considerable number to exert any real influence on national policy.

Polanski was formerly a Liberal Democrat - he moved to the Greens in 2017 - since when he has risen to deputy leader of the party, and a member of the London Assembly.

He knows that, if further meaningful progress is to be made, the Green Party has to lose its image of being ‘nice people with worthy policies but not cut out to rule the country’.

Polanski has rightly identified that more voters are gravitating towards populist leaders, and policies that speak directly to their concerns.