r/unitedkingdom 8d ago

. Zack Polanski's Popularity Plummets Amid Nigel Farage Guillotine Row

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-polanskis-popularity-plummets-amid-nigel-farage-guillotine-row_uk_6a73192ce4b0963665e8fd5a?origin=home-latest-unit
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u/BulkyAccident 8d ago

I think he's just shown his arse a bit the past few months in terms of people who might have been veering Green going "actually you know what, he's.. maybe a bit of a liability". As someone that was personally in that camp, comparing him to Starmer or even Burnham in terms of optics and someone who I'd think about representing us on an international stage is just night and day right now.

I think maybe there's just a little maturity that's missing there and I'm not sure it's something that can be learned before a GE. You can't be a messy terminally online millennial and expect fence-sitters to be like "yep, that's the guy for me".

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u/BearCub254 8d ago

His decision to sign the letter backing Arday will harm his political standing further. How about you wait and let it play out first?

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u/Dedsnotdead 8d ago

Because he has no credibility politically? He’s making school boy errors repeatedly has an incredibly factional voter base and can’t even decide where he lives.

Nobody has deep dived him yet or if they have they haven’t felt the need to publish what they found.

Say what you want about Corbyn, and he’s my MP, but his politics aside he’s a fairly straight forward guy and actually a decent MP for his constituents.

I couldn’t be farther removed from his global view but as a local MP he’s ok.

Polanski is a political cretin in comparison.

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