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The Owen Jones Podcast

MELTDOWN Over Zack Polanski Green SURGE

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0

Zach Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party, has them rattled. They are panicking.

0:05.5

By then, I mean the British media elite, lovely crew, my beloved colleagues, the Labour Party

0:11.2

and the British Right. Now, I've got some choice examples, one of which is completely

0:16.3

toe-kirling. Do you brace yourselves? But the polling continues to show that the pie is surging.

0:23.2

In the latest yug of poll, the Greens are up to 16%, up from about 6% at the general election

0:29.3

last year. That leaves them just one point behind the Labour Party, and that's after only 15 months

0:35.1

of being in power when they won an election last year.

0:38.5

And that was because of the most catastrophic government in history.

0:42.4

They were handed government on a plate.

0:45.2

And now it's all come crashing down.

0:49.4

So that's the highest polling for the Greens in a UGov poll ever.

0:53.9

And it is the lowest polling for the Labour in a Yucav poll ever, and it is the lowest polling

0:55.7

for the Labour Party in the history of YGov. At this rate, the Greens are going to end up moving

1:00.6

ahead of the Labour Party, and then I'm afraid we're going to have to ask Labour candidates to

1:04.8

stand down to stop splitting the anti-reform vote. Seriously, though, a big danger for Labor here,

1:10.7

which obviously I would hate

1:11.8

to happen, is that a lot of what remains of their support would happily defect to the Greens.

1:16.9

They're just not convinced right now that the Greens would actually win. But what if they

1:20.9

decide the Greens aren't actually no hopers, especially if the polls cut through? Well, then Labor

1:25.9

might find that those remaining voters might end up defecting.

1:30.6

And then Labor would be in massive trouble.

1:34.4

Well, they're already in massive trouble.

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