Green Party leader Zack Polanski is the UK’s most popular party leader, according to a new poll by Opinium. The rating comes from data gathered shortly after Polanski spoke out in favour of desperate refugees arriving in the UK by boat, a strong contrast with Nigel Farage’s Reform, Kemi Badenoch’s Tories and Keir Starmer’s Labour.

The latter has been desperately trying to ‘out-Farage Farage’ since he took over and set about gutting it of anything resembling Labour movement politics.

While no party leader quite manages a ‘net positive’ rating, Polanski comes closest with a net of -1, compared to LibDem Ed Davey on -4, Badenoch on -10, Farage -12 — streets ahead of Starmer, who languishes bottom with -43.

The Greens also ranked far ahead of Labour and the Tories on almost everything, particularly the public knowing what they stand for and the party actually having a political vision — for a change. Interestingly, Starmer’s party ranked so poorly on ‘being ready for government’  it doesn’t even show on the chart:

A separate YouGov poll — hardly the friendliest polling company for left-wing politicians as it was founded, and is still run by, Tory politicians  — found that the Greens are well ahead of any other party with 18-24-year-olds.

Polanski’s Opinium rating came shortly after he spoke out in support of refugees and other migrants arriving on small boats. While for Starmer, his new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and other front-benchers continue to ramp up racist rhetoric and policies against migrants. Then moving to attack the human rights of UK citizens as well.

It seems the public prefers a political leader with compassion and the courage to say so. Not a gaggle of them who are all barking up the same racist tree. What a surprise.

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