The establishment’s terror of the Greens has not diminished after the party’s powerful performance in last week’s 2026 local elections. Those elections saw the Greens more than quadruple their seats to 587, win more mayoral elections than any other party and win control of their first five councils ever. The party also gained hugely in the Scottish parliament elections, with fifteen MSPs. So it’s unsurprising that the state-corporate media are still going after Green leader Zack Polanski – and getting owned for it.
Polanski has got this lot rattled
And the latest attempt shows just how nail-breakingly they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. The Telegraph is attacking Polanski for… claiming something that’s true. That its author even admits is true – though of course without acknowledging that’s what she’s admitting.
The latest hatchet-job has a headline that screams “Exclusive: Zack Polanski falsely claimed to have worked at the Ministry of Justice “. But as ‘senior reporter’ Janet Eastham admits:
Polanski falsely claimed to have worked at the Ministry of Justice while campaigning for elected office.
In reality, he was hired by an agency that supplies actors to a quango for courtroom role-play exercises.
So Polanski did work at the MOJ. He didn’t work for the MOJ, but even the Torygraph can’t claim that he ever said he did, as people promptly pointed out. Including Polanski himself:
Great memories of working inside the Ministry of Justice doing actor roleplay work – many of my former colleagues have remained friends!
Especially the time I went down to the foyer on a lunch break – and some of the staff were on strike. First time I met @UVWunion! pic.twitter.com/rF5FoRrW7Q
— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) May 10, 2026
You really are the most stupid group of journalists. Doing freelance work at the Ministry of Justice is working at the Ministry of Justice. When are you lot going to learn that this stuff doesn’t land anymore?https://t.co/M2axpyxQoi
— Omar Baggili
(@OmarBaggili) May 10, 2026
We are bored of this shit now. What he said wasn’t technically incorrect, so fuck off
— Austin (@LCAustin_) May 10, 2026
Polanski – then an actor – along with other actors played roles that helped the MOJ’s agency identify suitable judges, as the rag notes in the article:
As part of the recruitment process, judicial candidates take part in mock courtroom exercises in which actors play criminals, prison guards and lawyers.
Rot
The Telegraph has just been bought by a media firm that says anyone who isn’t prepared to be loyal to Israel should leave. Why ever would it publish such a thing about an anti-Zionist party leader? This point was also made in response to Eastham’s post:
Cosplay “ journo” say wha?
— Simon Birnstingl
AI Free (@Leftwood) May 10, 2026
You write for a publication that forces you to write positive stories about an apartheid state. pic.twitter.com/2bNq5WcvJm
— bluedaysblacknights (@bluedaysbliz) May 10, 2026
EXCLUSIVE: REAL JOURNALISM BELOW.https://t.co/fvojbO7bNj
— salforddave (@saIforddave) May 10, 2026
The Telegraph claims it’s a newspape?
— Christopher Fox (@Yorkshirefoxy1) May 10, 2026
Nobody will believe you. Torygraph just smeared @misanharriman
Maybe get a decent job with a decent paper.
— JEN BROOK (@JENBROOK8) May 10, 2026
Nonsense
And others simply dismissed the self-owning nonsense as what it was – some politely, some less so:
I like him all the more he pisses you lot off.
He doesn’t play by your rules, why should he?
Why should anyone?
— extendbuzzard40 (@extendbuzzard40) May 10, 2026
This is getting boring- you don’t like the guy, we get it. He’ll go on to win elections and I strongly suggest you Cry More about that x
— SoTired (@so_very_tired) May 10, 2026
I don’t think this is the exclusive you think it is Janet
— Chutzpah (@shiftingshifter) May 10, 2026
Nobody gives a flying fuck, Janet. You claim to be a journalist but write for the Telegraph.
— James (@jspalmer_1) May 10, 2026
You pretend to be a journalist, so, glass houses and that.
— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) May 10, 2026
I like him all the more he pisses you lot off.
He doesn’t play by your rules, why should he?
Why should anyone?
— extendbuzzard40 (@extendbuzzard40) May 10, 2026
Yawn.
Try another scam guys we’re not playing along
— RobbieScowlz (@RobbieScowlz) May 10, 2026
Just fuck off now.
— Paul Harri (@PaulHar10765609) May 10, 2026
Two of you wrote this?
—
(@herd_member) May 10, 2026
Polanski has stumbled a couple of times in his handling of the establishment smears. But it seems he’s bounced back – and the election results have the ogres and elites more rattled than ever.
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