Mick Hartley

More on Zack Polanski, from the Mail:

Family members of Greens leader Zack Polanski fear they will be forced to leave the UK if he ever became prime minister.

The party, which stormed to a surprise by-election victory last month, is holding its spring conference on Saturday where it will debate and vote on a controversial motion alleging ‘Zionism is racism’.

Under Mr Polanski’s watch, the Greens have attracted an army of alleged Islamists and far-Left activists, moving away from its traditional roots.

The traditional roots – it’s in the name – are in the ecology movement. Long forgotten. It’s now all about getting the fashionable antisemite vote.

The Daily Mail has spoken to three members of Mr Polanski’s extended family – none of whom now talk to him.

‘He’s currently the leader of the future Islamic party of Britain, that’s what the Green Party is fast becoming,’ said one. ‘And there would be no place for Jews in an Islamic state of Britain.’…

‘If the Zionism-is-racism motion is passed it will make the Greens the most anti-Semitic party in British history since Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists,’ said a second relation. ‘The idea of it is one of the most sickening things I’ve heard in a long time.’

A third family member said: ‘The mad thing is that he’s gay, he’s Jewish but he’s cosying up to people whose ideology is the complete antithesis of everything that he’s supposed to stand for. It’s like he’s a chicken, telling us to vote for KFC.’

Just 5 per cent of motions submitted to the Green Party’s conference actually concern protecting the environment.

And, a final touch of irony.

A Green Party spokesman said: ‘Zack is one of five Jewish leaders of a political party in British history and the harassment he has received since being elected is patently anti-Semitic.

‘Reporting like this demeans the Press and our democracy.’

That’s some nerve there. Chutzpah, even. Criticism of antisemitic policies becomes antisemitic if it’s done by a party with a Jewish leader….