New polling from More in Common shows Green voters are far more likely to back Iran over Israel and the US, with 38% taking the Iranian side compared to just 4% backing the Americans and the Israelis. 40% back neither side and 6% judge both equally. The Green support for the Iranian side is more than twice as high as any other voting group…
As the chart above shows, Reform voters are far more likely to back the American position. Overall, however, most Brits sympathise with neither side at all…
The BBC has published an investigation debunking Zack Polanski’s titillating claim to have apologised after he attempted to grow a Sun reporter’s breasts via hypnosis in 2013. In fact, the BBC has found Polanski stood by the claims…
The Greens claimed Polanski went on the BBC to apologise and claim the Sun misrepresented him the day after the original hypnosis piece came out. The BBC dug into its archives and couldn’t find that particular instance…
What it could cleave from the archives was a BBC Radio Humberside appearance six days later in which he roundly backed the asset treatment method:
“Actually increasingly more and more as I work with people, there’s starting to become anecdotal evidence, at least, of a growth in breast size… the evidence is growing… I believe that it can happen in theory and I think it’s definitely worth investing the time of evidence and research into hypnosis generally.”
No doubt Polanski will now be known as a bizarre grifter to voters all over the globes…
Labour MPs are having their heads turned by Zack Polanski now the polls show the Greens are taking chunks out of the Labour vote. The Telegraph reports “at least one” Labour MP was approached by the whips on suspicion of defecting, with a ‘Green Party source’ taking real pleasure in milking the moment. Although they say “nothing concrete” has come from informal discussions…
One of the names that did the rounds recently was Dawn Butler. She insisted it was “untrue” when Guido put it to her. Still, plenty of Labour MPs will be glancing across the aisle feeling green with envy after Gorton and Denton taught them there’s no such thing as a Labour safe seat…
Those who defect should once again expect to field questions about the ghost of Christmas past in Jeremy Corbyn. Polanksi explained to the House magazine yesterday why he no longer criticises Jezza for antisemitism, despite saying he couldn’t vote for Corbyn in 2018:
“Since then, we’ve had a book by Paul Holden, The Fraud, which I think has laid out the cynical and systemic deliberate obfuscation of a really serious issue like antisemitism. I believe that I believed what I was reading and what I was seeing…”
A well-trodden path for a few Labour backbenchers…
Predictions for the next election are beginning to appear. It’s that time of the cycle…
Reform’s Robert Jenrick predicts a Labour-Green pact off the back of this morning’s devastating poll. Speaking to Sky News:
“I do think that British politics is shaping up to be a choice at the next general election between Nigel Farage and Reform on the one hand and a coalition of the left on the other. Keir Starmer or whoever replaces him in coalition with Zack Polanski and most people I think you know sensible, decent, hard working people watching this programme would not want to see that. If you think this government is chaotic and weak and harmful to the economy, just imagine what that would be like.”
Don’t leave Ed Davey out of the mix…
YouGov’s latest poll with the Times and Sky News has the Greens ahead of Labour for the first time. With fieldwork on Sunday and Monday the pollster says the result is “obviously likely driven to a significant extent by the publicity from the Denton & Gorton by-election, as well as any impact it has from the Greens appearing a more viable option and less of a wasted vote.” Four points up…
- RFM 23% (-1)
- GRN 21% (+4)
- LAB 16% (-2)
- CON 16% (-2)
- LDEM 14% (-)
This is the highest score obtained by Polanski’s party with YouGov. Labour and the Tories sitting jointly on only 16 points is a thing to behold…
The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer won by quite some margin in the Gorton and Denton by-election yesterday. Labour came third behind Reform. The Tories lost their deposit…
There was a 47.50% turnout. The results:
- Green: 40.7%
- Reform: 28.7%
- Labour: 25.4%
- Conservative: 1.92%
- LibDems: 1.77%
Labour had not lost an election in the area since 1931 until last night, near halving their 50.8% of the vote in 2024. That is Labour’s 13th highest fall in support in a by-election. Polling guru John Curtice told BBC Breakfast:
“The nervousness that already existed inside the Labor Party about Keir Starmer’s ability to turn around his party’s electoral fortunes, that nervousness is now going to be heightened. Not that there will be any move against the Prime Minister before May the 7th, but his chances of surviving after May the 7th if the results are bad, have, I think, been diminished.”
Deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell has already had to insist that “Keir is the right person for the job” this morning. The unions are starting to turn on Starmer, with general secretary of Unison Andrea Egan saying: “Under Keir Starmer the party is failing on every count, leaving the Greens to fill the vacuum.” Meanwhile, Reform’s Matt Goodwin said after his loss:
“A dangerous Muslim sectarianism has emerged. We have only one general election left to save Britain. Vote Reform every chance you get. I will continue the fight. I will always fight for you. I will stand at the next general election.”
Zack Polanski said after his party’s victory:
“This used to be one of Labour’s safest seats. The Green party saw a record-breaking swing in our direction and more than tripled our vote…Many ex-Labour voters told our canvassers that they will never go back to a party that supports genocide, fuels racism, and has failed to deliver on its promise to improve life for people across the country.”
Clock is ticking for Starmer…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
