Neither Green MPs nor anyone from the Lambeth Green Party, which is trying hard to make inroads into prize London Labour territory, has bothered to spell Polanski’s name correctly in their latest video. Believe it or not it’s his first name they’ve mucked up…
New Green MP Hannah Spencer, the Lambeth Green branch, and its main election candidate have all posted a video of Spencer at a local event. In which she waxes lyrical about supreme leader “Zach”…
“Because in the Greens, we are different to every other party. We do not believe in a hierarchy where our leader tells us what to do. As much as we love Zach [sic], he’s not our boss.”
Polanski – under fire from all sides for his intervention in the Golders Green situation – has been saying no to broadcast media bids today before apologising for his retweet this afternoon. Rattled?
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”