BBC Green Party Gotcha Attempt Blows Up In Their Face!

Right, so the BBC has evidently decided that the momentum building up around Green Party leadership candidate Zack Polanski is gaining too much momentum, he’s too progressive, the establishment must be protected, so lets get him, let’s throw him to Laura Kuenssberg, let’s stack the panel against him too, let’s Corbynate him if you like and the whole affair blew up in their faces beautifully. Polanski saw their attacks not as something to recoil from, but something to relish, he smiled as he destroyed their arguments fluidly, competently, frankly the BBC this Sunday gone if you saw it, probably gave Polanski his most public endorsement to date, because even when Kuenssberg resorted to the customary BBC gotcha, their last roll of the dice, their final parting shot, having evidently trawled Polanski’s social media looking for something to get him on, he swatted her nonsense away without batting an eyelid. Green Party members got a display of what other political leaders are going to have to deal with to their faces if Polanski becomes the new Green leader and for others having seen it and seen in Polanski hope once again for real, actual change, there’s still time to join the Greens and vote for him to be the next leader, so if you were impressed then, or are impressed by the end of this video, what are you waiting for?
Right, so that is one of two clips I’ve got here to show you in this video of Zack Polanski putting all three hostile entities to him in their place no matter what they hit him with.
Kuenssberg began with looking for sympathy from Polanski with Labour for their economic difficulties, spinning the establishment line of course that there’s no money left despite the UK very much being a fiat economy that can print as much money as it wants to, that’s why there is always money for war, but Polanski had none of it. Why should he or any of us sympathise with a government doing nothing different from the Tories we just ditched last year? Do something different and so it gave Polanski that wealth tax opportunity. Lets talk about a wealth tax and not only did Polanski do that but he made a point of not showing any sympathy for Labour, battering Angela Rayner who had been on just before, accusing her of tinkering at the edges instead of taking the issue head on and doing something meaningful, by taxing wealth and not wages, making the rich pay, and not the ordinary working class of this country pay for everything. The Party of workers being shown up for being anything but under Starmer by a Party too many still see as middle class, when actually it really isn’t, nor is it all about just environmentalism, when that has to go hand in hand with, as Polanski often repeats, with social justice. The moment he mentioned a wealth tax, though, in jumped Jane Moore of the Murdoch Scum, bleating the nonsense of won’t people just leave? You’ll get less money because people will just leave. Well the answer to that, is a resounding no, but the mainstream media have worked overtime trying to convince you of the opposite and the basis for their thinking is Norway, who have had a wealth tax implemented for a number of years, have lost money due to raising it from 0.8% to 1.1% in 2022. This is a levy Norway puts on wealth above NOK 1.7M, or about £132,000, but this is not on earnings, this is on sitting wealth. The Guardian was the main proponent of this lie that the wealthy will flee when in 2023, they put out an article saying that Billionaires n Norway, worth around NOK 600Bn, meant that, had their wealth been taxed at 1.1%, Norway had lost roughly $594m. It’s not true though. Sure these people left, nothing patriotic about that, if you love your country, you pay your fair share, these people would still be stupidly rich, but they chose to leave. The thing is Norway didn’t lose anything like what was claimed, the Guardian claim of NOK 600Bn was an estimate, yet Bloomberg tracked down the actual figure at a Q&A press conference given by the Norwegian minister of finance which discovered the amount of wealth that had left was just $4.3Bn, a heck of a drop from the Guardian’s claims. If that is all that went, then by doing the math with the new 1.1% tax rate on thew wealth still in Norway, then you see Norway’s wealth tax actually brought in an additional $100m, rather than losing hundreds of millions. Here’s a graph produced by Norwegian think tank Civita showing very much an increase in tax receipts 2022-23.
Alongside Polanski and Jane Moore, the BBC had also invited Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the CCDH and a known staunch defender of pro-Israel positions within the Labour Party.
With Polanski, a British Jew who has been calling out Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, Ahmed’s inclusion on the panel was no way a coincidence. The BBC has long faced criticism for its systemic bias in favour of pro-Israel perspectives, a bias that has only intensified in the wake of the Gaza crisis. Ahmed’s appearance ensured that any mention of Gaza would be instantly countered, or attempted to be countered as the case was, by someone who could parrot the familiar moral relativism that seeks to justify or downplay Israel's actions. But Polanski wasn’t going to miss a beat there either.
Polanski's forthright condemnation of Keir Starmer’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza was one of the most searing indictments of establishment politics heard on national television in recent months. With clarity and resolve, he articulated a position that many progressive voters share but rarely see represented in mainstream media: that the UK's unwavering support for Israel, in the face of overwhelming evidence of war crimes, is morally indefensible and unlike most other politicians, Polanski can call a genocide a genocide.
Ahmed’s attempts to reframe the issue just fell flat. Rather than floundering under pressure, Polanski seems to be at his best under pressure, he used the moment to highlight the cowardice of mainstream parties and the moral vacuum in their foreign policy, particularly that of Starmer's Labour.
So with everything else having failed, Kuenssberg pulled out the gotcha attempt:
That the most transparently orchestrated attempt to undermine Polanski came from Kuenssberg herself, is probably not going to surprise many people at all. It was a desperate bid to "Corbynate" him as we’ve come to call it on the left—to use the same lousy and dishonest tactic that was used to sideline Jeremy Corbyn being deployed against Polanski, so the question it should bring to mind is are they that afraid of him already?
Having clearly scoured Polanski's social media, Kuenssberg confronted him over his sharing of a poem by George the Poet that suggested the UK had undermined peace efforts between Ukraine and Russia. With an air of performative incredulity, as she is wont to put on, Kuenssberg denied such a thing had ever occurred, framing the assertion as fringe conspiracy.
Now on one hand, Polanski brushed this off as an attack on artistic freedom of speech, he defended the right of a poet to ask questions within a poem and the right to ask questions is seemingly something we’re in danger of losing if you follow such an argument as Kuenssberg made to its natural Starmerroid conclusion. Polanski dismissed it as an absurd line of questioning to frame it as a mistake, when asking questions is not something that should be condemned, but answered. So let’s answer it.
There actually is significant evidence that Western powers, particularly the UK and US, scuttled early peace talks in 2022. Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky, Ukrainian parliamentary leader David Arakhamia, and even Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico have all pointed to Western interference as a barrier to resolution. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly pressured Kyiv to withdraw from negotiations, emphasizing war over diplomacy. Let’s take the Russian and Ukrainian out of the discussion for a second though, here’s what Robert Fico said in an excerpt from Press TV published back in January of this year:
‘Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has revealed that the West sabotaged the signing of an agreement by Ukraine that would terminate the war in the former Soviet Republic as early as 2022.
“The war could have ended as far back as April 2022, when a peace settlement was on the agenda,” Fico said on the state-run STVR TV channel on Saturday.
“However, the West prevented Ukraine from signing the agreement,” he added.
According to the Slovak premier Ukraine was headed for a potentially catastrophic future.
“[Ukraine] will never be in NATO and will have immense problems with joining the EU,” he said.
Fico added that Ukraine would lose a third of its territory as a result of the conflict and would be forced to agree to the presence of foreign troops.’
So, was the poem Polanski shared really so radical? Or was it a poetic commentary of what many international observers have already documented? Kuenssberg’s smug dismissal of the claim as factually incorrect was not just disingenuous, it was dangerous, but this is the standard of journalism at the BBC isn’t it? It signalled a commitment to selective truth, that absolves Western actors of accountability, notably her beloved Boris.
Polanski, instead of backing down, calmly reinforced the need for truth-telling in foreign policy, questions that get asked should be answered, underscoring the broader point: the establishment—and its media arms—do not want progressives who speak with moral clarity. They want compliance, therefore Polanski is a threat cast in the mould of Corbyn in so many ways who must be stopped.
Rather than falter under pressure, Polanski emerged stronger. His performance sparked a surge of praise and support online and within Green Party ranks. A more confrontational Green Party—one willing to step into the vacuum left by Labour's drift to the right—could energise the broader, lets say politically homeless left and reshape the national conversation back to where it needs to be.
His campaign, already gaining momentum before the BBC appearance, has now become a focal point for progressive organising. Unlike Ramsay or Chowns, Polanski appears unafraid to engage in the real, pressing issues head on, challenging not only the Conservatives but also Labour's complicity in neoliberal and neocolonial policies.
The BBC's attempt to corner Zack Polanski through adversarial questioning and a stacked panel failed—not only because he was well-prepared, but because the truth was on his side. Whether discussing Gaza, tax policy, or Ukraine, Polanski's interventions exposed the poverty of establishment narratives and the lengths to which institutions like the BBC will go to protect them.
It was not merely a media misstep; it was a revelation to so many people. A reminder that mainstream journalism, as currently constituted, often serves not to inform but to manage dissent. In trying to humiliate Polanski, the BBC inadvertently did him a massive favour. They gave him a national platform to articulate what so many Britons already feel but rarely hear echoed on television: that a better, fairer, more honest politics is possible.
The polling between Polanski and the co-leader challenge of Ramsay and Chowns is still close though. Joining before the end of June means you can vote in this leadership election and as Polanski shows himself to more of a threat, you can bet those opposed to change will do just that to vote against him. This is another one of those Corbyn moments, where everyone can choose to step up and be part of something. Join the Greens to back Zack if you believe in what he is doing and what he is saying, because your participation may actually make all the difference as vested interests see him as a bigger and bigger threat to them, because at the end of the day you’d just be confirming what a growing number of people are already coming to the realisation of: that in what he is doing and what he is saying, Zack Polanski isn't just ready to lead. He already is.
For more on Polanski taking on the establishment during this campaign and to learn more about the campaign itself and how to Back Zack, check out this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch.
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