Corporate media outlets are all over the place right now. They’re desperate to undermine Zack Polanski. But they forget we’ve now had over four decades of politicians destroying our wellbeing, communities, public services, and planet – and most people are sick of it. So establishment fear-mongering about change simply won’t fly anymore.
One patronising Times attack piece came from “late-Elizabethan manor house” resident Alice Thomson:
And today it’s the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp pic.twitter.com/tfD8JC59If
— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) November 12, 2025
Thomson and her husband Edward Heathcoat Amory belonged to the “Notting Hill Tories“, the smug toffs that gave Britain hundreds of thousands of austerity deaths under people like David Cameron and George Osborne. So it’s no surprise that numbers (mostly in super-rich bank accounts) matter to them more than ordinary people.
Mainstream media outlets didn’t rush in recent decades to call it ‘fantasy’ politics to squeeze wealth away from poorer people and into the pockets of the super-rich. It’s not an easy task to increase wealth and income inequality at the expense of a country’s wellbeing, but neoliberal establishment politicians dreamt big and managed to pull it off.
Mad to change things? Or mad to keep things as they are?
The attacks on Polanski have been coming in thick and fast in recent weeks. This week, for example, the Spectator warned us about the dangers of Polanski’s “quest to be cool“. And the Telegraph launched an assault on our sanity (as usual):
Why won’t someone think about the poor billionaires???
And the newspapers they own!https://t.co/0qbagSwgNX pic.twitter.com/heKcs3O2I1
— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) November 11, 2025
But the more corporate propagandists flail around in search of an argument that sticks, the more they show they’ve got nothing. Because at this point, no one in their right mind would vote to keep things as they are.
From the Tories to Labour, the Lib Dems, and now Reform UK, the neoliberal establishment has done its best to line the pockets of the rich and empty everyone else’s. It wants us to think there’s no alternative, asking us to ignore other countries showing that things can be better, and even to ignore our own past where greedy and inept corporations didn’t just dump raw sewage into our water while raising bills and neglecting infrastructure.
Our overwhelmingly right-wing press want us to think of the ickle billionaires, who might have to pay a fairer share of tax under someone like Polanski. But people across Britain are ready to demand we think of ourselves for a change. The last few decades have been all about serving the super-rich. Now it’s time for a government that serves ordinary people.
Time for hope!
The attacks on Polanski will absolutely continue. As we saw when Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour Party, the establishment media will edit images of you next to the Kremlin to make it look like wanting poverty reduction, proper funding of services, and a liveable planet means you’re planning to set up a new Soviet Union. Then, it will ridiculously try to smear you as a racist despite your lifelong anti-racist campaigning, just because you believe in human rights for all people – not just Western allies. And it won’t stop until there’s a revolution in press regulation.
Polanski isn’t letting the attacks slow him down, though. He’s exposing the media’s desperation and then moving on. He’s focusing on mobilising hope instead, with pledges that are both moderate and perfectly reasonable. And he’s tapping into the massive desire for change in the country, showing that bold policies are actually just common sense after decades of establishment theft and neglect.
So while the corporate media propagandists scream in panic about protecting their friends’ rights to buy more supercars and luxury yachts, let’s celebrate that they’re so worried their lucrative decades-long scam could soon be coming to an end.
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By Ed Sykes
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