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Zack Polanski
Leader, Green Party of England and Wales — Green
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Latest: Vote Green to push Labour left, says Polanski as rent controls and Palestine Action policy unveiled - Morning Star | The People’s Daily — scored 5 (lucid) on 2026-10-03
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"Proposed a three-year emergency brake on private rents capping increases at the lowest of CPI, wage growth, or 2 percent."
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"Polanski called for an emergency three-year break on rising rents as part of his Green Party conference speech."
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"Polanski criticises Burnham's EU trade approach as too vague and argues the UK must rejoin the customs union and pursue full EU membership to reverse Brexit-related economic damage."
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"Blames Britain's economic damage on Brexit and prescribes rejoining the customs union and EU as the remedy, without addressing deeper structural drivers."
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"Calls on the government to publish the full, unredacted report warning that ecosystem collapse will drive a UK national security crisis involving war, pandemics, and food shortages."
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"Challenges the government to publish the full unredacted intelligence report on ecosystem collapse and come clean about the scale of the climate and nature crisis."
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"Polanski has called for a moratorium on new datacentre construction, citing inflated job promises, resource trade-offs, and the bypassing of local democratic scrutiny via the NSIP fast-track scheme."
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"Polanski argues that government-backed data centres would receive priority water access during drought while delivering substantially fewer jobs than expected and overriding local opposition."
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"The government is steamrolling local opposition to let private firms build datacentres with priority water access during a record drought, while independent analysis shows the promised jobs will largely fail to materialise."
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"The government is bypassing local opposition and democratic scrutiny to benefit private companies building datacentres, without being able to justify the public benefits."
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"Calls for removing blanket critical-infrastructure status from new data centres and introducing stricter planning thresholds, reserving the designation for facilities essential to national security or public services rather than private tech firms."
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"Polanski urged the UK government to pause approvals for new data centers in England, calling Labour's approach 'negligible and negligent'."
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"The government must halt new data centre development because their water demand threatens community water security, and planning rules that treat them as critical infrastructure wrongly prioritise them over people's basic needs."
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"Called for a freeze on new data centre approvals, stricter environmental rules, and greater community say over siting decisions."
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"Calls for a moratorium on building AI datacentres, citing their excessive energy and water consumption in the context of drought."
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"Calls for a temporary ban on energy- and water-guzzling data centres, arguing that critical infrastructure (water, electricity, hospitals) should be prioritised over AI infrastructure for tech billionaires."
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"Calls for a 38% windfall tax on UK bank profits above £800m to raise ~£19bn/year and cut tax bills for a million small and medium-sized businesses."
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"Called approval of the Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas projects a 'dereliction of duty' that would undermine climate commitments and divert investment from renewable energy."
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"The UK should invest in climate defence rather than increase military spending to 3% of GDP, as climate crisis is the biggest national security threat since WWII."
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"Calls for a 'wildfire tax' on oil companies, tying their record profits to funding wildfire prevention."
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"Oil and gas companies are profiting from fuelling the wildfires and climate-driven infernos across the UK."
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"Polanski condemned new North Sea oil and gas drilling, saying it would worsen climate breakdown, put lives at risk, and damage the economy."
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"Polanski says the Greens will introduce a wealth tax on millionaires and billionaires, and criticises Labour for reportedly letting the wealthy choose its chancellor instead of appointing Ed Miliband."
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"Criticises Labour's failure to reverse Conservative council funding cuts and Burnham's commitment to fiscal rules as perpetuating austerity."
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"Devolving powers to councils is meaningless without adequate funding, and contrasts record billionaire wealth with local authorities shutting libraries and youth centres due to funding cuts."
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"Polanski criticises Labour for being 'so keen on bringing in corporate lobbyists into the heart of Downing Street', drawing a line from Blair to Starmer to the current appointment."
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"Starmer lost the country's confidence because of his failure to challenge the power and wealth of an establishment."
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"Polanski frames Greater Manchester as ready for Green leadership delivering affordable homes, thriving communities, and a healthier environment, positioning it as a two-party race against Reform and capitalising on the Gorton and Denton by-election win."
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"Britain's shrinking industrial base and decades of mistaking wealth for strength over productive capacity have left the country neither safe nor sovereign; government must spend more and build more."
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"The Green party must understand and address the economic concerns of voters affected by the cost of living crisis who are drawn to Reform UK in order to tackle inequality."
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"The national party operation focusing on a specific area can make a significant difference in election outcomes."
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"Banning private jets and short-haul flights, along with lowering speed limits, would mitigate the impact of a UK fuel crisis and ensure fairness for ordinary citizens."
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"Claims that the current political landscape is defined by a primary contest between the Green Party and Reform UK, asserting that two-party politics is 'dead and buried'."
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"Zack Polanski claimed two-party politics is 'dead and buried' and suggested the Greens could replace Labour as the main opposition based on their local election gains."
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"Open borders are not a pragmatic solution for a world currently in turmoil."
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"Proposes prioritizing community interests over corporate private property rights to revive high streets via affordable leases and reclaiming long-term empty shops."
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"Alleged that police repeatedly and violently kicked a mentally ill man in the head during an arrest."
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"Zack Polanski accused Labour of 'using Jewish pain' to justify an authoritarian agenda in considering banning pro-Palestinian marches."
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"Calls for Donald Trump to be removed from his Scottish golf courses and for those assets to be transitioned into community ownership."
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""refuses to commit to key policy [the triple lock]""