Opinion by Mathew Carr
With Donald Trump being so hateful toward climate policy, UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski should run in the Makerfield by-election.
While a decision to put Polanski into the race will probably discourage those good Green candidates from the area directly, the vote is set to receive saturation press coverage in Britain.
That is publicity that is hard to get when you are not funded by billionaires.
Further, the final two weeks leading up to the June 18 election coincide with the two-week UNFCCC intercessional talks in Bonn, Germany.
The crumbling climate needs all the publicity help it can get right now.
Having Polanski in parliament will also help the country by shaming the failing Labour administration into changing more quickly away from warmongering, away from bad capitalism, away from injustice, away from bad capitalism and away from letting USA foreign interests take over the nation.
Labour is currently influenced/controlled by billionaires.
Fakely-named Reform is also funded by billionaires and is merely another version of the Red-Blue-Tory Uniparty that has run the country since 1922. Plus Reform has an extra helping of racism/division.
There are other reasons why Polanski makes sense.
Makerfield is in Greater Manchester and that’s where Polanski was born …. It’s a connection he could lean on rhetorically, but it’s not like he’s from the constituency itself. Close enough, perhaps.
See this segment of an Observer story on Polanski from November:
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Born David Paulden in Salford, Greater Manchester, Polanski changed his surname at 18 to the original family name. He grew up thinking that his grandparents had anglicised it to avoid persecution by the Nazis. “When I was about 16 or 17, I found that the actual story was that they had changed it to evade antisemitism in the UK. There was a real sense at that time of families having to hide in the shadows.” His decision to change his first name to Zack – after the Jewish evacuee in the children’s book Goodnight Mister Tom – was “more complicated”. He had a difficult relationship with his stepfather, who was also called David. “I didn’t want to be a shadow of a man I didn’t particularly agree with.” He was 11 when his parents divorced. “It was devastating,” he says. “I remember long commutes between a mother living in north Manchester and a father living in south Manchester. I remember a lot of logistical difficulties and a lot of pain and hurt that my parents weren’t together any more and couldn’t love each other any more.”
(Worth reading the whole story for insights into Polanski’s ability to deal with bullies, a skill needed for this election …because it is a sinister coronation attempt of Labour’s Andy Burnham by the establishment/ deep state…see bottom)
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I’ve got Green Party links, but I’ve no inside information as to the party’s plans. Many in the party believe it can’t win Makerfield. I disagree.
It held an online meeting to decide the candidate last night and the result is apparently under wraps.
Here are some of the other potential candidates, superficially / randomly judging from the Party’s Wigan and Leigh website:
