Two letter writers have expressed disappointment with Zack Polanski's recent defence of the Green party's relevance, saying he failed to focus on the climate crisis.
Letters criticise Polanski's focus
John Foster, from Hallbankgate in Cumbria, said there was no mention in what he called Polanski's "self-serving apologia" of the real reason the Green party is needed: to insist unremittingly on putting the climate and ecological crisis top of the political agenda.
Foster said Polanski should recognise that his own downplaying of that task in favour of populist foreign-policy posturing, along with bashing the rich, has fuelled the anti-Jewish entryism he deplores but is not quite brave enough to call out.
Framework and focus
Foster added that an absurd policymaking framework helps such entryism, but tinkering with that framework will be pointless until the Greens refocus vigorously on the main point of their existence as a political party.
Carol Peaker, from Oxford, said that as someone who viewed the recent rise of the Green party's prospects with hope, she was "beyond disappointed" when she read Polanski's defence of the relevance of his party. She noted there was not a word on the most pressing issue of today and possibly in human history, and for which the Green party was formed.
Peaker concluded: "The Greens have lost their way."
