New Green Party leader slams Reform’s ‘colonial mindset’ towards Wales
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of betraying a “colonial mindset” towards Wales.
Speaking ahead of his visit to Cardiff this weekend, Mr Polanski, who secured a landslide victory in the party’s leadership election which concluded on Wednesday, says he wants to “reclaim” populism after the win.
Stepping stones
He said: “Reform are treating Wales as nothing more than stepping stone to Downing Street. They’ve even refused to name a Welsh leader, such is their contempt for this country.
“Voters literally have no idea who their pick for First Minister would be for next year’s crucial Senedd elections.
“The Green Party has a clear leader in Wales – Anthony Slaughter, popular, committed and determined to deliver real hope and real change. I’m proud to be coming to Wales to stand beside him and support him.
“The Reform UK leader makes up nonsense. He even claimed he would be reopening coal mines when the future for communities and jobs in Wales is the move toward sustainable, renewable energy.
“Farage said Reform would re-open the blast furnace at Port Talbot, something workers know is physically impossible.
“It is an insult to the people of Wales to offer false hopes and lies. Wales, for Reform, is just a place to mop up salaries for his politicians on the way to Downing Street.
“Where they offer division, Greens offer actual solutions to people’s concerns. Greens in the Senedd will bring in rent controls, bring water into public ownership and bring down people’s bills.”
Action day
Mr Polanski is in Cardiff on Saturday (6th September) as part of an action day for the 2026 Senedd election.
At the event, Wales Green Party will also be announcing their 2nd ranked candidate for the target constituency of Caerdydd Penarth, behind Anthony Slaughter.
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This is a bit hypocrtical as the Green Party no longer has a ‘Wales Green Party’. They re-modelled their structure to become ‘The Green Party of England and Wales’. Anyway thank goodness they no longer have anything to do with their former Wales Guru Martin Shrewsbury, AKA many other pseudo names, as he is now a leading member of the Wales Labour party in Ystradgynlais Powys.
An interesting point made by the incumbent Green Party leader Zak Polanski regarding Reform treating Wales like an English colony. A good example. Today we had former Welsh Conservative Laura Ann Jones MS today at Reform’s Birmingham rally said she favoured scrapping the Senedd because she feels that it is not working for the people of Wales, and if they could not make devolution work for Wales , would consider scrapping it. May I remind Laura Ann Jones that it’s not devolution that’s failed Wales. It’s both Welsh Labour and UK Government decisions including the structure of devolution itself i.e… Read more »
I don’t think they’ll actually abolish it though.
I bet you didn’t think Farage would achieve brexit either?
despite the irony, at least there is a politician prepared to openly call out Farage, hope others follow suit
Around 2017 or thereabouts, Friends of the Earth rated all political parties on their green credentials; Plaid Cymru came out ahead of the Green Party. On this basis, I see no reason for the Greens to stand in constituencies where Plaid have a chance of winning. If they do , they risk a Labour or Reform victory. Plaid should come to an agreement with the Greens to prevent this happening. We don’t want a rerun of the Uxbridge by-election, when the Green vote was more than the Conservative majority, thus gifting the tories another seat. Taking the high moral ground… Read more »