Happy Remembrance Sunday one and all. With the Green party soaring in the polls, who better to have on the weekly TV circuit than Zack Polanski? Sporting both white and red poppies – work that one out – the onetime hypnotherapist was grilled by Sky’s Trevor Phillips on the party’s plans for defence. Predictably, Polanski is neither fan of the nuclear deterrent nor Keir Starmer, suggesting that the UK currently has ‘got a Prime Minister who’s spending £15 billion on nuclear weapons and at the same time saying there’s no money to lift the two child benefit cap.’
It was left to Phillips to point out the obvious: such sums are spent on Trident in order to avert conflict in the first place. ‘Surely’, he remarked, ‘the deterrent is valuable in a world that has Vladimir Putin in it?’ Apparently not, according to Polanski, who declared ‘I want to see everyone denuclearize – including Vladimir Putin.’ An incredulous Phillips remarked that such an act of generosity on behalf of the Russian dictation ‘would be in the realms of the miracle.’ An indignant Polanski retorted ‘I think it’s important that we don’t laugh at peace’ as ‘you could have laughed at the point of Nelson Mandela negotiating with the ANC – or we could have laughed at the Irish Troubles.’ Or the thought of Vlad’s reaction to such a proposal…
Polanski closed by arguing that it would be ‘sociopathic behaviour to say you wouldn’t negotiate with the President or Prime Minister of any country.’ Mr S is not such an expert in world affairs as Zack. But he would have thought that in order for such negotiations to start, Polanski might want to make his opening pitch even vaguely credible. Talk about a bust eh?
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