[The Weeping Angel]

He's a straight-talking and authentic.

[Abernathy]

Gary Lineker, Sadiq Khan, and Meghan Markle congratulating Hannah Spencer MP on her by-election victory in Gorton & Denton.

[Boiler]

This will upset all those Polanski supporters BTL on the Guardian who claim that the "breast enlargement by hypnosis" story is a MSM-manufactured lie ("and you fell for it - well done, you!")

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ew-reveals

[Youngian]

The comeback is 'yawn, old news, is that the best you've got?' and 'the establishment's scared of Zack and debating the ishoos.'

[mattomac]

I just find it really odd behaviour and not someone I can take at all seriously.

[The Weeping Angel]

What exactly do we need a vote on, Zack?

[Boiler]

Polanski is every bit as irritating as Farage.

Like thrush.

[Youngian]

If Jamie Driscoll in the Canary says Zack's an economics heavyweight, who are we to question this truth?

Zack Polanski has just brilliantly answered his critics
Jamie Driscoll

Green Party leader Zack Polanski just got serious on the economy. Not just on substance. His 32-minute speech at the New Economics Foundation on Wednesday 18 March saw a change in tone.

“Our fiscal framework is hypersensitive to market movements, and this creates policy uncertainty that then fuels the very market jitters it was there to supposedly prevent” is one phrase that stood out for me. There was lots of talk of productivity and fiscal multipliers.

This was Zack answering his critics. He can do the heavyweight economics. https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026/0 ... lxradbj9CQ

[Tubby Isaacs]

What does “our fiscal framework is hypersensitive to markets” even mean?

That we should spend less or spend the same and tax more?

[Tubby Isaacs]

What exactly do we need a vote on, Zack?

Well indeed. Starmer did indeed have a silly military action law in his 2020 manifesto, but would what we’re doing now even trigger it?

Note the way he just chucks out stuff and says “vote”. Our vote isn’t binding on the US or Iran. How do we vote against oil prices rising?

[mattomac]

I assume his position was on Starmer joining a war but Starmer hasn't but hell his fan base don't care about facts.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

What exactly do we need a vote on, Zack?

Well indeed. Starmer did indeed have a silly military action law in his 2020 manifesto, but would what we’re doing now even trigger it?

Note the way he just chucks out stuff and says “vote”. Our vote isn’t binding on the US or Iran. How do we vote against oil prices rising?

Rimmer's tee shirt...

[Tubby Isaacs]

I assume his position was on Starmer joining a war but Starmer hasn't but hell his fan base don't care about facts.

This is what Starmer said when running for the Labour leadership- not that it's more relevant than the actual General Election manifesto anyway.

Keir Starmer
@Keir_Starmer
No more illegal wars. Introduce a Prevention of Military Intervention Act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.

Now there hasn't been an Act to this effect, but a credible Attorney General has been appointed, and I've not seen anyone seriously claimed the UK is breaking the law.

What Zack is doing here is tapping into the base (not the Green base so much as the Corbyn one) that Starmer cheated his way to being PM. Perhaps we should hold Zack to his positions from when he was a Lib Dem.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This article credibly argues that passing a law would be a bad idea and two Parliamentary commissions have come to the same conclusion.

https://constitution-unit.com/2024/01/2 ... ention-act

This is what the writer suggests.

PACAC’s 2019 report demonstrated a cooperative attitude by parliamentarians, open to making accommodations for the government’s need to keep some matters secret and options flexible. Although the Johnson government was dismissive in its response, a Starmer government might find there is benefit in developing a shared vision with parliament of their respective roles in initiating and approving military intervention of all kinds.

Not that Zack is in Parliament, but my trust in him to "make accommodations for the government's need to keep some matters secret and options flexible" is not high.

By the way, Steve Reed, to whom he was replying in his tweet, was right about there not being a requirement for votes on this stuff.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/re ... cbp-10001/