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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

Has Zack Polanski forgotten what the Green party is for?

A Green Party supporter holds a flyer in support of Zack Polanski that mentions austerity, genocide and Starmerism, but no environmental concern
‘I was beyond disappointed when I read Zack Polanski’s defence of the relevance of his party.’ Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

There was no mention in Zack Polanski’s self-serving apologia of the real reason why we need the Green party – to insist unremittingly on putting the climate and ecological crisis top of the political agenda (Yes, it’s been a tough week for the Greens: but don’t lose sight of how we’re transforming British politics, 11 October).

Polanski should recognise that it is his own downplaying of that task in favour of populist foreign-policy posturing (along with bashing the rich) that has fuelled the anti-Jewish entryism he deplores, but isn’t quite brave enough to call out.

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