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Watch Zack Polanski destroy the idea he’s splitting the ‘left vote’ in 30 seconds

Recently elected Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been causing a corporate upset with his media rounds. This time he was on Sky News, responding to the idea that he’s splitting the ‘left vote’ and that people should vote for Labour, a larger and more established party, to defeat Nigel Farage.

Zack Polanski: no one wants “low fat Nigel Farage”

In response, Zack Polanski challenged the nature of the question:

Well the idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent. This is a party that have done everything they can to protect power and wealth in this country and to appease Nigel Farage.

The Green Party leader is bang on. Keir Starmer has broken every single pledge he made to become Labour leader. His pitch to left-wing members was a con job to deceive them into voting for him. He has refused to end NHS privatisation and to nationalise key utilities, thereby also protecting power and wealth, as Polanski pointed out. Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech echoed the racism of Enoch Powell and his policies on immigration are a futile attempt to crowd please the far right.

On Sky News, Zack Polanski continued:

Not only is is an unethical strategy, it’s a completely absurd one too. If people wanted low fat Nigel Farage, they would vote for Nigel Farage, not Keir Starmer. And history has shown us time and time again, that if a prime minister, or someone who wants to pretend they’re on the left, constantly appeases the right by talking about “island of strangers”… by protecting the wealth of the super rich, all that happens is people laugh at them and they go and vote for the right anyway.

The Green Party leader is making the point that, through using anti-immigrant talking points and policies, Starmer is confirming that Farage has the correct diagnosis of the central problems in Britain. Instead, Polanski intends to challenge the entire basis of that conclusion.

‘People not profit’

He then said his voter base should extend beyond the left:

What the Green Party are doing is saying not just to people on the left, but frankly anyone in this country that wants a politician and a politics that is not in vested interests, that is not in the pockets of the corporations who are destroying our environment, destroying our democracy and destroying our communities, but a party that genuinely serves people… rather than profit, then that party is the Green Party.

It’s no question that large donations from corporations and the super rich have corrupted UK politics. Over the last five years, the largest donation the Green Party received is £170,000 from an individual. Meanwhile, Starmer’s Labour has accepted 11 donations of one million pounds or more from an individual or corporation. In turn, those 11 donations total a whopping £23.6m from just a handful of people.

Zack Polanski continued:

My only sole mission is to make sure that people have an alternative, that we can make hope normal again. So it’s not for me to say to people don’t vote Labour because you’re going to to split the vote, it’s Labour’s job to offer a better solution. I think they’re way past that point, people have lost complete trust in them. And that’s why I don’t intend to be concerned by Labour or disappointed by Labour. In May’s local elections right across England and Wales… we intend to replace Labour at the ballot box.

By James Wright

This post was originally published on Canary.