'Zack Polanski Is My Friend – But He's Also A Coward And Must Resign'

Writing for HuffPost UK, Joshua Alston accused the Green leader of “lacking courage.”

I’ve worked closely with Zack Polanski. He was treasurer of Jewish Greens when I was chair, we celebrated together when we had success and he was amongst my first calls when times were harder.

He is someone who I know well and have relied on.

However, when we were working together, I noticed a pattern.

Every time there was a political risk to be taken, he came up with a reason he couldn’t do it. He lacked courage.

This conference was a monument to his political timidity. His big policy proposal on rent controls was a step backwards.

Allowing rents to rise with inflation will maintain a toxic status quo where far too many people are paying far too much in rent and having too little to manage essentials.

The Green Party takes the commonsense position that the rents are too damn high, but at conference Zack ran away from this, inventing a policy that keeps rent at the same........

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