One is a former stockbroker from the south who, by his own proud admission, loves smoking, drinking and women. The other’s a proud vegan, gay, northern former actor, who told me he’d never drunk a drop.<\/p>\n
But the jubilant Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage have rather a lot in common.<\/p>\n
Before you scream, burst out laughing, or think I have lost my marbles, of course, there are very big differences between them.<\/p>\n
The Greens talk about a climate emergency. Reform UK calls the government green plans, “net stupid zero”.<\/p>\n
Polanski wants a “world without borders”. Farage wants to deport many thousands of people from the UK. And shock horror, they aren’t each other’s cup of tea.<\/p>\n
The Green leader says, he “despises” Farage’s politics, accusing him of sowing hate and division.<\/p>\n
Farage, when turning down Polanski’s offer of a debate, said, “if you pick a fight with a chimney sweep, you get covered in soot”, going on to say Polanski “has a fan club: all the heroin smokers”.<\/p>\n
But, as Polanski and his newest MP Hannah Spencer celebrate a very impressive victory in Gorton and Denton, and Farage’s party chalks up pushing Labour into third place, there are parallels between the leaders and the parties – even if it seems bonkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One is a former stockbroker from the south who, by his own proud admission, loves smoking, drinking and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-450419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}