London Labour MPs 'sh*tting it' over the Green Party surge

According to the Mirror, a Labour MP has claimed that colleagues in London are “shitting it” at the prospect of the Green Party taking their seats. Zack Polanski, meanwhile, has sent a message to them:

Great to hear London Labour MPs panicking about losing their seats to the Green Party.

For clarity, though – this goes way beyond just London.

Across England & Wales, we’re saying lower bills, tax billionaires and we’re ready to take on Reform.https://t.co/zUuBdKDYgW pic.twitter.com/9qVn2t1yaw

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) November 8, 2025

Green Party surge

As far as we can tell from current polling, Polanski is right to suggest they could win seats up and down the country:

The Greens would win 24 seats (+20):

🟢Birkenhead (GAIN)
🟢Brighton Kemptown (GAIN)
🟢Brighton Pavilion
🟢Bristol Central
🟢Bristol East (GAIN)
🟢Bristol North East (GAIN)
🟢Bristol North West (GAIN)
🟢Bristol South (GAIN)
🟢Cambridge (GAIN)
🟢Hackney North (GAIN)
🟢Hackney…

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) October 27, 2025

If you click ‘see more’ in the above tweet, you’ll see a list which includes places like Birkenhead, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich, and Sheffield. Or you will if you’re not completely delusional anyway:

“Birkenhead”
“Manchester”
“Huddersfield”
“Sheffield”

?????

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) October 27, 2025

The Mirror article notes that Polanski is appealing to a broad section of the electorate:

“You know, the two politicians I really like are Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage,” a voter told a More in Common (MIC) focus group last week – despite the pair’s politics being worlds apart.

As the Mirror highlights, the public is pretty fed up after years of the Tories and Labour selling us out to the privatisers. Voters wouldn’t necessarily explain it that way, but if you ask people what their problems are, they’re generally that everything keeps getting shitter and shitter — something which is happening because successive governments have sold everything which isn’t nailed down.

“hard left disruptors.”

Or just give a crap about people?

And want things to be affordable.https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp pic.twitter.com/AhAqR69SdL

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) November 6, 2025

Polanski himself said:

I think journalists have often commented that they are surprised how accessible I am.

I’m very willing to walk around with them and speak to people in the street that I’ve not met or vetted in advance, and I think that’s quite unusual in the political system that through decades of Labour and also Conservative parties have become so overly stage-managed and performative

The reason why politicians don’t talk to regular people is because they find it impossible to seem normal — a fact which was most keenly visualised by the following image (viewer discretion is advised):

You’re 3 points behind the greens bruv @Keir_Starmer https://t.co/okAD7LOhry pic.twitter.com/XldewkQftK

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 6, 2025

The following image is a close second:

The uncropped version is even more cursed pic.twitter.com/4kezP0aiwQ

— @robotattack.bsky.social (@robotattack) August 11, 2020

It’s not just fear of seeming weird which keeps politicians away from the public; it’s the fear of answering questions. Providing a straightforward response is something they can’t do, because if they did, everyone would hate them even more. Polanski, meanwhile, isn’t just answering questions; he’s speed answering them:

Zack for PM, anyone?https://t.co/N7IGRtbLK6 pic.twitter.com/8BTdrWeyVN

— The Green Party (@TheGreenParty) November 7, 2025

Policy

Flattery aside, the Greens’ nuclear policy is the relic of a bygone era. Polanski is right to point out that the UK has a terrible record when it comes to successfully building nuclear plants in the past few decades, but the same is true of every other infrastructure project besides luxury flats. Should we not have affordable houses because we’ve been crap at building them for the past half a century?

Even when it comes to this, however, it’s important to note that Green Party members voted to oppose nuclear energy. You can disagree with the policy as much as you like, but this is how political parties are supposed to work, and the fact that Labour doesn’t work like this is a big reason why they’ve lost so many members (things have actually gotten so bad that they’re begging ex-members to come back).

We can’t say we feel sorry for the Labour MPs set to lose their seats, but we can say this: the person most responsible for this isn’t Zack Polanski, it’s Keir Starmer.