New Green leader Zack Polanski will demand Britain’s super rich are hit with new taxes claiming the UK economy is ‘rigged’ in their favour.
Self-proclaimed ‘eco-populist’ Polanski will demand a fresh levy hits assets of the top 1 per cent of earners in his first conference speech in charge of the party.
The former Harley Street hypnotist, dubbed ‘the boob whisperer’ after once claiming he could help women increase the size of their breasts, will make his pitch to party members in Bournemouth tomorrow.
He will argue the money raised would go towards universal free childcare, funding for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) education, rural bus routes and climate investment.
Since being elected this month he has made no secret of his plan to move the party further towards the populist Left.
‘It’s time for a party that’s bold enough to say, tax the rich,’ he will say, arguing that the housing and NHS crises, and rising bills are the result of a political system designed to protect the wealth of the richest in society.
‘Hairdressers and plumbers say, understandably, I’ve worked hard all my life. Why are you taxing me? Why are you taxing my ambition?
Self-proclaimed ‘eco-populist’ Polanski will demand a fresh levy hits assets of the top 1 per cent of earners in his first conference speech in charge of the party.
While a Green candidate in 2019 he was among the first Extinction Rebellion activists to be arrested for blocking Waterloo Bridge in London, as part of a six-day protest bringing roads to a halt across London.
‘We need to make sure that everyone in this country knows there will be people who go to sleep tonight and, without lifting a finger, will wake up richer, much richer.
‘They will make more money in one night than everyone in this room could make in an entire year.’
The Green Party is shifting its politics leftwards after Mr Polanski’s landslide victory in the leadership election, which saw him defeat a joint ticket of MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns by 20,411 to 3,705.
The self-described ‘eco-populist’ took the reins of the party at the beginning of September.
He is also a former Extinction Rebellion activist who was arrested at a demonstration in 2019.
Earlier this year he showed his support for now banned terrorist group Palestine Action before it was proscribed.
