Zack Polanski as new leader of Green Party by a landslide…good news?
I expected him to win as Adrian Ramsay was not the charismatic, media friendly part of the partnership with Carla Denyer. I think tactically they were a brilliant couple, seeing huge electoral gains, but the party needed fresh blood and energy to take it forward.
There is a real golden opportunity to sweep up discontented Labour (and middle of the road Tories in rural areas) right now.
Fingers crossed 🤞
That said, I don’t expect the mainstream media to immediately warm to him. Tbh indifference is par for the course.
#Polanski believes he can make #EcoPopulism a force to contend with…to stand up to the likes of Farage’s Reform. But that will require media acknowledgment that his party even exists most of the time.
Both the Greens and Reform have 4 MPs…but the media coverage is poles apart.
How can he change that situation?
The Ed Davey stunt approach or rallies? My guess is latter.
@JugglingWithEggs he's not entirely helped himself on the media front either 🫣
But yeah he's someone who can actually get people excited, and seemingly wants to talk about actual ideas beyond feel good slogans. Press will be tough, but then the press isn't quite so important anymore
Adrian didn't have any of that, he may have been more ‘media friendly’ but that's not exactly done him any good so far, and even without his increasingly compromised politics he's just so dull?
I think there were personal reasons for Ramsay’s approach, but it left him a man in a grey suit without a story. Most politicians wear grey suits…but whilst not frightening the horses worked in rural areas for him, he did not have the spark or youth appeal that Denyer had and that will be needed going forward to take on more traditionally Labour city based seats.
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