Starmer will hand Britain over to Farage, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

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1. got to hand it to him, he’s managing to get 10x the coverage that Farage is getting recently

2. Its crazy how all the green posters on this sub managed to post all news related to this guy from yesterday and today EXCEPT the one in which he goes on to theguardian and calls for open borders and how mass immigration is our strength.

3. Isn’t the worry that a strong Green Party will split the Labour vote?

   I have very mixed feelings about the Greens. I do wish they would change their stance on nuclear…in my locality the Greens helped put in a Conservative council by remaining neutral in the vote. They also had a few Muslim candidates who were very sus when asked questions regarding LGBT+ issues.

   I know no party is going to be ideal, but if I’m tactically voting I find Green a risky one to choose.

4. The Greens would put the housing crisis into overdrive. Their NIMBY policies make them unelectable.

5. The only thing preventing Reform winning will be Conservatives splitting the vote. The Greens and even a flaccid Your Party on the ballot will counteract that some what. Ironic really.

6. I do not trust or like this guy. Oh well.. No chance of him getting in anyway.

7. > Green Party would support his ambition for the UK to leave NATO, Polanski stressed that the UK needs “a different approach to defence”.

   Just another usefull sewing division and making us weaker.

8. First, Polanski is an equally dangerous populist himself. Second, he’s splitting the left’s vote and thus giving it to Farage.

9. If the Greens would move on one policy, they’d have my vote. Scapping Trident & our nuclear arms, and not seeing nuclear as a viable option for energy now and into the future is unaccpetable. Our dependance on purely renewable (solar, tidal, wind) could mean periods of blackouts, or make household battery storage mandatory, or even things such as gas/diesel standby generators.

10. All these leaders can only talk about Farage, they are running scared

11. Party that is unpopular and unelectable pointing fingers at one that has become that, amazing discourse.

12. I’d vote green if they were honest about what would have to happen to taxes for their plans, and for them to acknowledge the general public’s views on migration. Denmark appear to have done this and their left wing party got the most votes.

13. he already has handed it over. it’s up to an actual left-wing option to take it back before it’s too late. starver and his centre-right goons have removed any notion that labour are a party for the worker or the common person.

    i hope zack can remove the lingering stench of the green party name that will inevitably follow him no matter how much sense he talks.

14. If Britain votes farage as prime minister. They deserve every mad policy he dreams up. If the biggest problem in your life is people arriving in small boats . Vote for him and see how much better your life will be

15. Starmer is right wing in his politics, centre right. A Tony Blair on steroid, but got most things wrong so far. No wonder people will vote Farage.

16. The only reason so many people are considering voting for Farage/Reform is the runaway immigration trend of the past couple of decades. Same for Brexit, if it wasn’t for mainstream parties repeatedly ignoring very clear public opinion over immigration and questionable asylum claims then we’d still be in the EU and far-right parties would be back on the outer fringe like they always were before immigration levels exploded in the early 00s.

17. Bollocks.

    The media is trying to hand over Britain to Farage so their billionaire owners can get massive tax cuts.

18. Only if previously-Labour voters become green voters..

19. Rerform want the Greens to pull support from Labour. Of course, only those interested in student politics don’t see this.

20. And you’ll hand it over to anyone who arrived on a boat yesterday, so jog on.

21. That’s a bit rich considering Greens will achieve nothing but taking votes off Labour and gifting seats to Reform. 

    Credit it to him getting himself in the media mind, more than the lib dems are doing.

22. To be fair, Starmer set this rolling the moment he quietly agreed to trade Clacton for Farage’s comeback tour. He achieved his split of the Tories, but in his own inimitable genius, will end up giving Reform the keys to Downing Street. “Pyrrhic” feels generous.

23. The Green Party may well hand over Britain to Farage.

    Whilst labour can’t siphon off enough votes to stop Green candidates winning. The Green Party can absolutely siphon off enough votes to stop Labour candidates winning.

24. I mean, obviously he’d say that. He’ll say whatever he can to stay in the news and try to win votes – that’s his job. Labour criticise Reform, and the Conservatives criticise Labour.

25. Agree! Big concern. When Orange Face spoke at the UN, it felt like he was telling extremists from the represented countries that it’s open season and this is what you can say to your people.

    Crazy that it works, unfortunately.

26. Please lord, give Farage a chance… why the hell not?

27. Starmer is handling thousands of votes to Reform in Wales. Many of his Labour colleagues will be unemployed come next year’s Senedd election!

28. Redditors believe that somehow the Labour or green party can win a majority in the next election

29. He’s absolutely correct, and also he knows what he is doing – Polanski is looking to take over the left wing vote away from Labour. Imagine a Reform government and a Green opposition, vice versa- crazy times in the UK. The centrist Labour/Tory homogeneous blob could well melt away in the GE.

30. Fortunately, or rather, I hope that if Farage somehow becomes PM, parliament decides to be petty as hell and remind people he is the absent prime minister whenever he fails to show up.

    Though, I can see him attempting to do nothing but speeches that stir up all reform’s supporters and tries to shut the government down.

31. He said some reasonable stuff then pissed on his own cornflakes by shouting how much he loved immigrants and refugees.

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