@pre@boing.worldWell Zack's won, convincingly, 20k votes to 3k votes for the others.
So that's good.
Now lets see if he can make the media actually reflect the message like they reflect Farage constantly.
Gonna be harder for anti-capitalists than pro-capitalists, what with the media all being owned by the capital.
#ZackPolanski #green #uk
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzJust caught up with Zack Polanski's "landslide" win. That's the most hopeful I've felt about UK politics in a while!
A while back, I watched a video of him being interviewed, and he seems like a no-nonsense kind of person.
"Zack Polanski has been elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales by a landslide, signalling a clear shift to the left for the party.
"The London Assembly member beat Green MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, who were standing on a joint ticket, by 20,411 votes to 3,705."
#GreenParty #ZackPolanski
@pre@boing.worldVoting in the UK Green party elections is half over. Too late to join the party and vote, and sounds like Zack is very likely to win.
Which is good. I voted for him.
I think the job-share rule is important and that any job should be possible to share between workers. But in the case of the "leader", which is literally the face of the party, having two faces is difficult in the public hive mind. Even with a united front, it's litterally two faced.
But mostly my vote was just for Zack, and would have likely voted for him in a job-share too.
He's very personable and seems to know how to talk to the public and express not just environmental issues but other green issues like inequality and war and how your enemy is not a boat of refugees but the concentration of power in the hands of maniacs both political and corporate.
I confess I gave up trying to read anything about the candidates and cast a vote about half way down all the other jobs being elected. I'm just adding noise. I dunno who any of these people are or even what the job entails most of the time and there's too many all at once. Should stagger them weekly or something.
Anyway here's Zack on Mark Steel's sweary podcast being brilliant on the issues and how to explain them better than I can.
I love Mark Steel too. Miss the sketches things it used to have in the newish revised entirely-an-interview format.
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In two parts
#podcast #green #uk #ZackPolanski #listening