To BBC Question Time, where new leader of the Greens Zack Polanski spent much of the evening sparring with Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf. The lefty leader accused the Reform figure of being a ‘far-right, fascist’ that was obsessed with immigration while Yusuf accused Polanski of wanting a ‘communist economic system’ in a Britain where ‘it is legal to sell heroin, but not to rent your flat out’. Shots fired!
But while Polanski was pulling no punches with his attacks on Nigel Farage’s insurgent group, the Green leader was a little less tolerant when Yusuf decided to bring up his past, er, antics. Reform’s head of policy hit out at the eco-socialist who was once caught in a newspaper sting during his stint as a hynpotherapist who claimed he was able to boost women’s cup sizes via the mind. Yusuf told the audience scathingly:
When Zack Polanski is making seductive claims to you, it’s important that you understand that before he came into politics, he literally made money by charging women on the promise that he could literally enlarge the size of their breasts by hypnotising them. That is a true statement. And if you think that’s insane, his policies are even more insane.
Ouch…
Polanski initially denied the allegation, claiming that he initially refused to and then belatedly agreed to try it ‘as an experiment’ but insisted it was not normal practice. But when Yusuf accused the Green leader of lying, the latter conceded defeat: ‘I think it’s important that when you make a mistake, you own that. It’s 12 years on now. I don’t care where you come from – I care where you’re going.’ That didn’t stop him from immediately suggesting that in the case of the Welsh Reform organiser taking bribes from the Russian state, Farage was guilty by association. Whatever happened to leaving the past in the past, Zack? Rules for me but not for thee!
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