When he’s not ranting about Gaza, Zack Polanski is mostly to be found despairing about the cost of living. And aren’t we all?
The Green leader has made a series of economically illiterate suggestions about how he would bring down prices for struggling Brits and improve the dire state of the economy. Which makes his intervention on food prices today all the more bizarre. The intrepid Green leader, in all his glory, has called for the cost of supermarket goods to rise. That’s right: Polanski fumed that the likes of veggies are far too cheap.
Delivering a speech at the Bakers’ Union conference, the far-left politician said:
I was thinking of a friend of mine the other day – who I’m not judging for this, I understand, but they were really excited that they were buying vegetables for 7p in one of the supermarkets.
That is not a sign of a healthy system … someone is being exploited somewhere and if you are paying 7p for vegetables then something is not right.
Yes, there’s a cost-of-living crisis. Yes, governments and local councils need to do everything they can to keep food prices down and make sure that people can afford to eat and, in the same breath, we need to make sure that we’re paying our workers properly and that people have proper dignity and working conditions.
Polanski called for more regulation of supermarkets, warning that the status quo ‘cannot go on as it is’.
To be fair, the Greens are favoured among metropolitan middle-class wokies who could no doubt spare a few more pounds for market veg. As for the rest of the country… Mr S wishes Polanski the best of luck with his new policy pledge to make food pricier. What a lemon.
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