Don’t laugh at the Green Party’s chaos. Be frightened by their sinister agenda
Zack Polanski’s outfit embodies everything that is most dangerous about the hard Left
Having surveyed the entertaining chaos into which the Green Party spring conference descended, how many voters will relish the same toxic mix of anarchy and Marxism applied to government?
Just imagine a future Whitehall populated with Green activists-turned-ministers obsessing about pronouns, regularly demanding votes of confidence in each other, and arguing over whether opposition to a homeland for Jews qualifies as racism or not.
What happened on Saturday was what always happens when the extreme Left gets control of any political party. It’s what could have happened to Labour in the early 1980s, and did actually happen to it in the second half of the last decade under Jeremy Corbyn.
The difference is that, in Labour, the large majority of sensible MPs, and a significant proportion of moderate activists, remained in the party and refused to allow the hard Left to get it all their own way.
In the Greens, that solar-powered ship sailed a long time ago. Since the end of the Cold War, disillusioned Marxists have targeted the party as their natural home, and gradually shaped it into a vehicle more suited to their own ideals: away from environmentalism and towards Critical Race Theory, anti-Zionism and gender ideology.
That the public face of the Greens was always cheery, university-educated, upper-middle-class activists who only wanted everyone to be kind helped disguise what was happening underneath: ravenous anti-Semitism and Islamist-adjacent ideology increasingly holding sway.
Those middle-class cheerleaders were enough in number to provide public relations cover for the Greens in their wealthy enclaves of Brighton and Bristol, but they were never enough to shape the political direction of the party.
It became increasingly anti-West, anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-British, just as every single iteration of revolutionary Marxist philosophy did in the past. The difference this time, however, was timing.
When Zack Polanski, former Liberal Democrat cheerleader and hypnotist of questionable motive, became the Greens’ leader in 2025, the old two-party system had fractured, perhaps permanently.
Centre-Right voters were looking for an alternative to the Conservatives after a disastrous 14 years in office, while Labour were doing its best in Government to prove that they were little better. Polanski’s entry on to the national stage was serendipitous: here was a good communicator with a wealth of shallow clichés to hand with which he could answer all the easy questions, safe in the knowledge that the media would never press him on the hard ones.
Suddenly, the extremists on the Left found themselves in a party that was actually electorally successful. That had never happened before, aside from the brief window of optimism under Corbyn in the Labour Party.
This represents the culmination of entryist Marxism in Britain over many decades: the Trotskyist mission was always to infiltrate existing parties, since it was recognised even by Trotsky himself that voters, being dull-witted and gullible victims of the capitalist system, would never vote for an avowedly revolutionary party themselves.
Perhaps the entryists over-stretched themselves by seeking too soon to embed their own anti-Semitism and support for Islamism in the Green policy agenda. Saturday’s chaos resulted in the key motion, which labelled the Jews’ right to self-determination as a racist enterprise and smeared every supporter of Israel as a racist, not even being voted on, thanks to the number of votes of confidence in the unfortunate individuals who were trying to chair the event..
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