Greens Plan to Force PR Voting System, Wealth Taxes and Faster Net Zero by Holding “Balance of Power” in Hung Parliament
Zack Polanski has set out a plan for the Greens to bring in a radical agenda of a PR voting system, wealth taxes and faster Net Zero by exploiting divides on the Right and holding the “balance of power” in a hung Parliament after the next election. The Mail has more.
The Greens are hoping to exploit divides on the Right to force through radical change after the election.
Zack Polanski said he wanted the party to win enough MPs to hold the “balance of power” in Parliament.
He suggested that would give them maximum leverage to secure policies such as proportional representation, a wealth tax and faster progress on Net Zero.
The comments, on the BBC’s Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast, came after the Greens put Labour to the sword in the Gorton & Denton by-election.
The party has been seeing a bump in the polls as it hoovers up Left-wingers and Muslim voters disaffected with Keir Starmer.
The latest YouGov research this week put Reform ahead on 25% support with the Greens in second on 19%. But the Tories and Labour were on 17%, and the Lib Dems on 14%.
Those kind of figures at a General Election would almost certainly produce a hung Parliament and intense haggling between parties attempting to form a government.Â
Other eye-catching Green policies include legalising hard drugs, pulling out of Nato and unilaterally giving up the nuclear deterrent.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A government led by the Green party would not set targets for GDP growth but would instead focus on mental health, social cohesion and community welfare, Polanski has said in a major speech on the economy. Er, we will own nothing and be happy…?
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It’s going to get worse before it gets better…
Given the current ethno-religious make up of the UK and the rate of increase of our uninvited conquerors, I’m afraid there is no ‘gets better’ without radical intervention. qv Termite treatment.
Probably right. Not in our lifetime anyway.
There is no split on the right. There is a leading party and a couple of trouble makers. Then there is the Tory party which has tried to present itself as conservative for years while promoting globalist, left wing policies. They gas light the public into supporting them.
100%
The Tory party that brought you the covid scam, net zero, the Boriswave, no rolling back of Blairism, less freedom of speech, higher taxes.
Trying to hold the ‘balance of power’ may be effective when there are two main parties to balance. But at the next general election there will be two exhausted ‘main parties’ and several contenders for the biggest new party.
Zack Polanski might find his Green party frozen out, especially as the ‘price’ of their support is so heavy.
I rather dread PR and most of the contending parties might be encouraged to implement it as a way of holding on to more power than first past the post would do. Still it might blunt the more extreme policies.
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Lib Dems tried to do this in the coalition government. Where are they now?
I do think that the country should have gone for AV (which is not PR) when we were given the chance.
The Mail has been strongly pushing a “unite the right” narrative … without acknowledging that the Not-a-Conservative-Party gave up being a right-of centre party about 2 decades ago.
I rather think this is just another article in the campaign.
Agreed. They bang on about Reform having to bow down the the Tories when the party with the majority of the support is NOT the Tories. Hopefully come May we can hammer the Tories here in the South East and turn all the councils who ran scared of the voters to Reform.
David Paulden speaks. 1st thing Snaggle Puss needs is free dental care.
They are not GREEN ——They are RED. ——-The public think don’t seem to realise what a con trick that calling themselves GREEN is.
Indeed. And Polanski is a Jew. A Jew leading a Totalitarian party that is being taken over by Muslims. Wrap your conspiracy brain around that one.
Often when I look at the efforts of Labour or the Conservatives, I often have a feeling of hopelessness. With the Greens, I’m actually frightened.
The public sector workers have not realised they are the ‘rich’ that Polanski will be taxing to pay for his nonsense. Once they realise this they will be rushing back to the Lib Dems and Labour, thus splitting the left.
I hope he gets in, I hope it happens and that the people who support this guy get exactly what they think they want.
I agree it would be a good revenge, but I survive on a modest private pension so will be first in line for the ‘wealth’ tax.
It might be time to get out on the streets