GMB badgered Zack Polanski, but he came fully prepared

Zack Polanski has swept into the leadership of the Green Party, with bold promises to take on the rich and their cronies. And establishment forces are clearly scared. But as Polanski just showed on Good Morning Britain (GMB), they’ll need to put a lot more work into their attack lines. Because the new Green leader isn’t short of either skills or principles.

‘Let’s talk about inequality, genocide, homelessness, and exploited migrant workers running the NHS’

GMB‘s presenters dived into their interview with Polanski headfirst with what appears to be the main attack line the establishment currently has against him – the misrepresentation of something he apologised for long ago, before entering politics. As he responded immediately:

Well, I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the Sun.

He went on:

This was a story from about 12 years ago. I’ve apologised then, apologised now. One of my favourite politicians Tony Benn said ‘I don’t care about where you came from, I care about where you’re going’. And where I’m going is to tackle inequality, to tackle the climate crisis, to lower people’s bills.

But the presenters kept pushing. So he clarified that he never believed he could enlarge breasts with hypnotherapy, that he never charged people to try and do it, that the Sun misrepresented him, and that he had apologised a day later. He even got a few laughs by saying “lots of men got in touch with me asking if I could help with other body parts”.

He added:

I think when these questions come from legacy and mainstream media, it often sounds like it’s trying to silence left-wing politicians, who are saying ‘I want to look at inequality in this country, I want to look at the things that actually matter, like the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the fact there’s homeless people in the street, the fact I spent a couple of hours yesterday with migrant workers who are saying they’re not even being paid a basic wage in this country to run our National Health Service. I think these are the things that matter to people.

So #GMB interviewed @ZackPolanski and they spent the first 3 and a half minutes discussing the front page of the Daily Star and something that happened many years ago before Zack was even in politics.

Well done to Zack for the way he handled it. pic.twitter.com/wl8jn7wPGt

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) September 3, 2025

Zack Polanski cutting through on immigration

With all the racists running around intimidating refugees and immigrants right now, GMB had to ask Polanski about the topic. And he insisted that refugees and immigrants actually bring a net benefit to Britain. And talking about the subject of an immigration limit, he stressed:

If the reason you want to set a limit is because we need more council homes, we need more investment in the National Health Service, I agree. But none of that is the problem of migrants. The problem there is multi-millionaires and billionaires not paying enough tax and not enough investment in public services. Those are all political choices. We can make different political choices.

Yasss Zack 🔥 this is so refreshing! I'd forgotten what it was like to have hope!pic.twitter.com/rqFMkZbpN3

— Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) September 3, 2025

On BBC Breakfast, meanwhile, he had a line on the topic that the left needs to be repeating over and over again:

The problem is not the small boats. The problem is the private jets and the private yachts.

.@ZackPolanski: "The problem is not the small boats, the problem is the private jets.. lets make sure the people in this country that have massive wealth are redistributing a tiny bit.. 1% on assets of £10m or more or 2% on assets of £1bn or more. That would raise about £25bn" pic.twitter.com/jM53sURoPQ

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) September 3, 2025

People in glass houses…

The Labour Party also embarrassingly joined the establishment attack on Polanski, but it was easy to shut the governing party down:

I made a mistake – and apologised.

I've never armed a genocide though.https://t.co/0qbagSwgNX https://t.co/2Zo3nw76za

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) September 3, 2025

You’re quoting The S*n ‘newspaper’ breaking a promise Keir Starmer made in his leadership election campaign.

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) September 2, 2025

Meet Keir Starmer.

This is a person who is the Prime Minister and has dispatched countless flights from Cyprus to provide military intelligence to the Israeli government, whose leader has an arrest warrant at the ICC for Crimes Against Humanity pic.twitter.com/65Af3rQ2RF

— Philip Proudfoot (@PhilipProudfoot) September 3, 2025

That's it? That's all you've got? Maybe you should sit back down pic.twitter.com/FoNFdcJ46G

— Mrs Gee 💚🇵🇸 (@earthygirl011) September 2, 2025

I have no dog in this fight, yet, but a shit sales pitch from a decade ago doesn’t really compare with enabling and supporting a genocide, intentionally starving disabled people, freezing the elderly, and trying to out-Reform, Reform UK.

Lame.

— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) September 2, 2025

Desperate stuff from a racist, Islamophobic, immigrant bashing, ableist, disability discrimination, driving up child poverty, fascist scum. pic.twitter.com/CSwWQdndfH

— Teri ☘️💙♿️ (@mettlesome_teri) September 2, 2025

If you want to play games then… pic.twitter.com/kXatKh2FoO

— ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill (@TweetForTheMany) September 2, 2025

Your lot is worse. pic.twitter.com/uJOYaVdlJr

— Kathleen Tyson (@Kathleen_Tyson_) September 2, 2025

At the moment, all publicity Polanski is getting is good publicity. Because he knows exactly how to respond. And everyone on the left can learn something from that.

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