Under Zack Polanski, the Green Party has nearly quadrupled its membership while simultaneously leapfrogging Labour in the polls. Regardless of what you think of him, you have to acknowledge Polanski is a savvy political operator.
To tackle this political wunderkind, the Labour Party has dispatched Steve Reed — a man who’s essentially a sentient brick with a haircut. Reed has decided to go after Polanski by repeating the same attack lines over and over; attack lines which have shown no signs of resonating with voters and probably never will.
Polanski, meanwhile, is hitting back by reminding everyone that Reed is the absolute last person to making any sort of point about anything.
— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) April 28, 2026
The cynical accusations of antisemitism are something the Labour right began playing around with under Corbyn. As you can see, however, Reed is not best placed to make such claims.
Polanski and pointless questions
As the Canary reported this week, the issue wasn’t that Polanski ‘wouldn’t answer questions’, as Reed suggested. The problem was Polanski was doing news shows to discuss the local elections, and interviewers kept asking him about breasts and the Royal Family.
.@ZackPolanski is asked, is it official green party policy to abolish the monarchy?
Sensible answer. pic.twitter.com/QWKMK9y8wy
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 27, 2026
So #GMB spent their entire interview with @ZackPolanski asking him about policies that aren’t Green party policy & aren’t in the manifesto for Mays elections, along with a story from the scum about Zack before he was a politician
Zack: “This is why people hate the media”
pic.twitter.com/nuphPCF8fY
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 27, 2026
Do the local elections not matter? The mainstream British media seem to think they don’t.
The Green Party could be offering real solutions to local problems, but the public will never know because nobody on the telly bothered to ask.
The British media openly disdains everyday citizens outside of London and the refusal to engage with local politics exemplifies that.
Steve Reed, the anti-Polanski minister
Now, back to Reed. Polanski isn’t the only one using his post as an opportunity to highlight how wretched this guy is.
If only @SteveReedMP would also step up and take accountability for his efforts (or lack of) to abolish leasehold. Perhaps Polanski should also hypnotise you to grow some balls, so you can stand up against vested interests and your donor buddies. https://t.co/KoKHiPD1dA
— Leasehold Hostage (@endleaseholduk) April 28, 2026
This next one is in reference to Reed being the housing minister (or was the housing minister, but anyway, he now seems to be the anti-Polanski minister?).
You have tough questions to answer regarding your lack of progress on the building safety crisis.
Less Twitter, more progress! https://t.co/PvlUx6NXe9
— Dan Bruce (@dannybster) April 29, 2026
Nothing going on
Many pointed out what we did, namely that Labour has very little substance when it comes to attacking the Greens.
The fact they have to keep repeating this same, tired old attack line only reinforces the fact that Labour MPs simply have no valid challenge against @ZackPolanski or @TheGreenParty policies.
It really is beyond pathetic…and very boring. https://t.co/9Yqt179dsS— Anne Greensmith
(@snowleopardess) April 28, 2026
It seems Labour’s attacks aren’t working. Or, to be completely fair, the Green Party is doing well despite them.
Potentially things would be even worse if Reed wasn’t banging on about ‘boob hypnotherapy’ every five minutes. Perhaps if he gave up, Labour would be set to lose all of its seats in the upcoming local elections and not just most of them:
Projected net changes for local elections:
Ref +1,437
Grn +926
Lib +327
Con -627
Lab -1,738
Median estimate via @Moreincommon_, April '26 pic.twitter.com/OFxPMxmoUV
— Stats for Lefties
(@LeftieStats) April 21, 2026
Featured image via X/ Barold
By Willem Moore
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