Polanski and the Greens are the ‘renewal’ Starmer is promising

Believe it or not, the laughably deluded Keir Starmer claims Britain is “turning a corner” in 2026.

“Renewal is becoming reality”, he chirps in Cabinet meetings and New Year videos, all while desperately clutching at anything that isn’t his plummeting approval ratings and a pair of tickets to a Taylor Swift gig.

I can only imagine a cabinet meeting with Starmer is much like reading those ‘motivational’ posters you might see hanging on the walls of a failing call centre.

Starmer is promising we will feel the difference in our pockets. Bills will drop, wages will soar, and unicorns will deliver free PlayStation consoles to anyone who was born before 1856, including Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Remember him? Reform UK has a raft of policies from the same era. How long will it be before the fascist fucks parachute the Brexit bullshitter into a winnable seat?

Worst. PM. Since. The. Last. One.

Keir Starmer’s own personal approval — that makes Liz Truss look like a popularity contest winner — is the worst for any Prime Minister in half a century, and Labour’s epically disastrous poll ratings have halved since their 2024 landslide.

Blocking NHS sell-off-merchant Andy Burnham from a by-election because heaven forbid, a more-popular rival gets near Westminster? Starmer’s paranoia is showing through control-freakery.

MPs routinely whisper leadership challenges, Blairite Wes Screeching eyes the crown, and the fed up base is deserting in their disgruntled droves.

May’s local elections loom like a guillotine. A brutal Scotland wipeout is incoming, again, and councils are in revolt. But sure, this is the year of “national renewal”, according to the Labour spinners, if by renewal they mean replacing Starmer before he drags the Labour Party into third or fourth placed oblivion.

NHS waiting lists? Still a nightmare. Violent crime? Not exactly plummeting. Cost of living? The number-one issue, yet people are feeling squeezed harder thanks to Labour’s unbelievably poor fiscal choices — and they are choices, not necessity.

Starmer’s “turning the corner” spiel is peak political gaslighting.

Slapping around slogans

How many shiny slogans can you slap over a government that’s broken down, out of fuel, and blocking the road? The only corner being turned is the one where voters are queuing up to abandon Labour’s sinking ship for Reform’s racist chaos or the Greens’ actual ideas that might just benefit ordinary people like us.

The populists on both wings of the political spectrum are ready to gleefully feast on the rotting carcass that Labour has left behind, and it is time, in my humble opinion, for Labour voters with a conscience (they do exist) to throw their voice and their vote behind Zack Polanski’s Green Party at the Gorton and Denton by-election, and extend that support to May’s locals.

Why? To stop Reform from winning the former Labour stronghold at the end of February, and to maximise left representation across the country in May. Not exactly controversial stuff for anyone with an iota of common sense and a bit of integrity.

Now, some diehard Labourites will insist that only they, the hugely unpopular Labour Party can defeat Reform in Gorton and Denton, and that is a demonstrable lie which goes back to my last point regarding common sense and integrity.

This isn’t just about electoral arithmetic, it’s a frontline battle in the class war against Starmer’s tepid, hug-a-hedge-fund Labour. The austerity-lite policies, the shameful Gaza complicity, and the failure to deliver on promises like a genuine Green New Deal should leave Gorton and Denton ripe for a Polanski picking.

A victory for Reform UK (they’re the people that you booted-out of government in 2024) would undoubtedly put a smile on the faces of the elite, but a win for the Green Party would be a delicious, seismic rebuke to the establishment.

Polanski win = Starmer rebuke

The last time I checked, Green Party membership was approaching 190,000. If utilised correctly, Polanski has one hell of a ground force, many of whom pounded the streets and banged on doors for Jeremy Corbyn.

And if we are going to talk about electoral arithmetic, the numbers scream opportunity for the Greens.

Under charismatic leader Zack Polanski — elected in September 2025 — the Greens have surged nationally by four points to 13.5%, closing in on Labour’s dismal 18.6%.

In Gorton and Denton specifically, Britain Predicts/New Statesman polling shows Labour at 29%, Reform at 27%, and Greens at 24% — a razor-thin three-way race where a little bit of tactical voting could swing it.

Furthermore, even the Mail on Sunday’s analysis, hardly known for its raging Marxism, predicts a Green upset, citing polling data and Labour’s dramatic collapse under the leadership of Keir Starmer.

These are the fruits of Labour’s self-sabotage, and I urge Labour supporters to do the right thing and give your vote to Polanski’s Greens.

The Greens are rightly framing this as a Greens vs Reform showdown, positioning themselves as the anti-fascist bulwark against far-right demagogue Matt Goodwin (Reform’s candidate, a hard-right ‘academic’).

In a world burning from climate crisis and inequality, Gorton and Denton could spark the modern day revolution we so desperately need.

Victory

A Green victory in Gorton and Denton isn’t going to be easy. Labour still has the machine and the money, and Reform still has the anti-immigration rhetoric that tends to strike a chord with a certain type of racist.

While the Greens undoubtedly have the momentum, they haven’t ever won a northern by-election. But every single hurdle is surmountable through mobilisation and an historic upset is absolutely achievable.

So here’s to turning the corner with Labour, everyone.

May it be sharp, painful, and lead straight to the Greens actually doing something useful.

Featured image via the Canary