Your loss, Zack’s gain? Polanski’s vision for the UK

Pod Save the UK

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Oh dear lefties… We just can’t stop tearing each other apart, huh? One short month into the evolution of the new political party experiment undertaken by independent MPs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn - and the whole thing has descended into acrimony. After a weekend of legal threats, “your” party is suddenly seeming to be a house of cards built amidst a hurricane. Meanwhile, Nigel Farage has seized the moment to vomit out a new wave of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric. The need for a unified left movement has never been more urgent - and new Green Party leader Zack Polanski is ready to meet the moment. Zack joins Nish and Coco in our (fully powered) studio - to talk about his vision for the future of the left, his plans to fight inequality and why he’s not actually thrilled to see Zarah and Jez at each others throats. He also brings up his ever-so-slightly hypnotherapy boobjob and in revenge, helps us pip the Sun to the post on a saaaaaucy exclusive. Later - Nish weighs in on the Jimmy Kimmel saga… It couldn’t happen here, right? Oh, wait… CHECK OUT THIS DEAL FROM OUR SPONSOR https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheuk GUESTS Zack Polanksi - Green Party Leader Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheukFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheukYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kumar. And I'm Cocoa Khan. And we're back in the studio.
0:06.6	The lights are on. The right could not stop us. Last week, there were technical difficulties
0:11.6	that may or may not have been caused by a cyber hack by agents of the deep state. By Richard
0:17.2	Tice. It was not caused by that. Just to be clear, it was not caused by that. It was a problem in the grid. But anyway, this week we're discussing your party's descent into civil war. Is it all over before it even began? But we're also observing that one left-wing party's loss could be another's gain. This fallout has seen a surge in Green Party members and newly elected leader. Zach Polanski will be joining us on the show today to talk about how he plans to seize the moment.
0:42.3	And later we look at the Jimmy Kimmel saga because nothing like that could happen here, could it, Nish?
0:48.3	I'm tired.
0:49.3	I'm so tired.
0:52.3	But not of the stuff before that. The rest of the show I'm excited about. But that bit, I'm tired.
1:01.7	Now, for many people in this country, the prospect of a new left-wing party has been a beacon of hope in these troubled times.
1:07.6	It inspired over 750,000 people to sign up. Expectations were very high. Party
1:12.1	names were bandied around. Coco was put forward as Minister for Bins and hope for a new kind of
1:16.7	politics was infectious. Over the last week, though, the extremely public and hot-headed
1:21.5	row amongst the leadership has seen the project descend into Civil War. So here's a quick summary
1:26.1	of the beef thus far.
1:29.2	So last Thursday, your party... I don't know if we should call it the beef. It's not Kendrick and Drake. I wish it was.
1:33.5	That was great. I would like to hear the discrack of whatever this moment is.
1:37.5	Not the Drake one.
1:39.0	Anyway, the Corbyn District. I'm just getting carried away. So last Thursday, your party
1:44.1	supporters received a string of confusing and conflicting messages into their inbox.
1:49.1	The first was from Zara Sultana, directing them to pay for a membership via a URL that was different from the Your Party site.
1:56.2	This was followed by an urgent email, urgent in caps, signed by Jeremy Corbyn and the four other MPs
2:02.1	in the Independent Alliance. It said Sultana's email was unauthorised and to cancel any direct
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