Zack Polanski was just elected leader of the Green Party by an absolute landslide. The former deputy party leader beat back rivals Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns by almost 17,000 votes.

Then, when asked if he’d rule out working with Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in a hung parliament situation, he demonstrated exactly why he’s exactly what the Green Party needs right now.

Newly elected Green Party leader @ZackPolanski is asked, would he ever work with Keir Starmer? pic.twitter.com/Q5lVKmISKH

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Let’s break this down.

The ‘coat-tails’ of Corbyn

Polanski started off with a fairly equivocal answer, stating that:

it would be wild to rule out working with anyone at this point because I’ve only just been elected leader, and that’s a decision that the membership will make.

That’s fair enough. Starmer breaks his pledges so often that there’s no telling what his politics will be in a year’s time. Only a fool would criticise the beliefs of a man who clearly has none.

However, Polanski really got going when he started talking about his opinion as it stands today. He stated:

In Keir Starmer we’ve seen someone who got elected on the coat-tails of Jeremy Corbyn, who made lots of promises to protect communities, to bring about left-wing change in this country, to stand up for some of the poorest communities.

Starmer got into his position at the head of the Labour Party by positioning himself as a ‘unity candidate‘. He said that Corbyn’s fight against austerity was right, “We build on that, we don’t trash it going forward”.

We’ve all seen how that worked out.

‘Despicable’

Polanski went on:

And what we’ve had from Keir Starmer is despicable in terms of the politics. It is someone who has sold those communities out. He’s not just sold his party out and the people who voted for him.

He’s right. Labour under Starmer has betrayed its old key base. The party has rammed through a welfare bill with disastrous implications for the most vulnerable. Unite, the union, is going so far as to re-examine its longstanding relationship with the party. And that’s not even to mention the expulsion of left-wing groups from the Labour fold.

But we’re not even at the good bit yet:

The people I’m more concerned about are the people that are suffering in the country every day, who are worried about the future of this country, who’ve seen Nigel Farage give – and let’s call it what it is, a racist press conference, and not just not condemn it but implicitly nod to it.

Polanski isn’t afraid to call Farage a racist. The only bit we’re struggling with here is narrowing it down it ‘a’ racist press conference – Farage has given plenty to choose from, whilst Starmer has sat on his thumbs. Meanwhile, Reform is gaining in the polls and Labour has hit a six-year low.

Polanski: ‘I can’t imagine any scenario’

Polanski signed off:

So I can’t imagine any scenario where I would want to work with Keir Starmer, and I think in a scenario where we were in a hung parliament and we got that many seats, I think it would be odd that if that many people had stopped voting Labour and switched to Greens, to then work with Keir Starmer.

Now more than ever, we need unity on the left of British politics. It’s just that Starmer and his Labour party wouldn’t know what actual left-wing politics looked like if it dropped a fucking mic on them.

Featured image via the Canary