Polanski’s sick anti-Farage post just days after Ann Widdecombe’s brutal murder lays bare rank hypocrisy of Left

IT DOESN’T take much to imagine what would happen if Nigel Farage jokingly posted an image of Green Party leader Zack Polanski being strung up from a lamp post. The police would lose no time in sending a dozen officers to his home to arrest him. Zack Polanski shared a picture of this man wearing this T-shirt calling for the Reform leader’s decapitation Credit: INSTAGRAM/UNPIXS Nigel Farage has reported Zack Polanski to the police Credit: Alamy The Left would go into overdrive, saying that the ‘chilling’ image proved that Reform UK was just one step removed from the Ku Klux Klan. Words and pictures, we would be reminded, have consequences, and nothing less than a long prison sentence for Farage would do. Sign up for the Politics newsletter Thank you! But when it is the other way around? We know the answer because at the weekend, Zack Polanski shared with his 700,000 Instagram followers an image of a man wearing a t-shirt bearing the image of a guillotine and the words “we’re only making plans for Nigel”. The photo was taken at a Green party rally at the weekend. The police say they are investigating the incident, but don’t expect any action to be taken against Polanski. As for the Left, the incident seems hardly to have registered on their radar screens. I don’t think for a moment that Polanski really wants Farage beheaded. But surely, following the murder of Ann Widdecombe a fortnight ago, as well the murders of MPs Jo Cox and David Amess, he ought to know that joking about violence towards public figures is extremely dangerous. Most read in The Sun The Green Party leader has been reported to police, according to Farage Credit: PA It comes after Ann Widdecombe’s death earlier this month Credit: AFP It is, as Farage has said, a form of incitement. It only takes one deranged individual to take it as an instruction and we could be dealing with yet another political murder. Green party members are developing a reputation for disgusting comments on social media. Tina Ion, who stood in Newcastle in May’s local elections posted a picture of an industrial shredding machine along with the words ‘zionist juicer’. One of her colleagues, Philip Brookes, posted an image of a torn Israeli flag with a swastika behind, as well as suggesting that thanks to the war in Gaza it “takes serious effort not to be a tiny bit antisemitic”. The party withdrew support from both candidates, but does it not have a vetting procedure? Sadly, Polanski’s Greens are evolving into an extreme Islamist party in green clothes. The Left doesn’t see any of this because to them, the ‘Far Right’ – a definition which in their minds includes anyone backed Brexit, opposes mass migration or who thinks that the government should live within its means — has a monopoly on violence. Everything that right wing figures say is construed as incitement. This is the t-shirt the man was wearing in the image Credit: Sab Cat Polanski poses for a photo during the 2026 Womad Festival at Neston Park last week Credit: Getty Remember how the Left instantly blamed Jo Cox’s murder – by a right wing extremist – on the Brexit campaign? Or how the actions of Darren Osborne, who drove a van into a crowd outside Finsbury Park Mosque in 2017, were quickly blamed on the tabloids? Actually, at his trial it was revealed that he was spurred into action after watching a BBC documentary. Even more absurdly, Labour MP Kate Osborne (no relation) tried to blame the Islamist attack on a Pride event in Berlin last weekend on Reform UK, claiming that the party was culpable because it was part of an “escalation of hate”. How different it was after Ann Widdecombe’s murder when we were told not to speculate on the killer’s motives. After David Amess’ murder it quickly emerged that he had been killed by an Islamist terrorist, but you would hardly have known from some of the coverage, which sought to blame the crime on a general coarsening of political debate. The Left didn’t want us speculating on anything to do with Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana, the British-born son of Rwandan refugees who was later found to have al-Qaeda materials in his bedroom. Within hours, Keir Starmer was on the television trying to turn the whole thing into a story about the Far Right. Lucy Connolly, a child-minder married to a Conservative councillor, was quickly arrested and later jailed for tweeting about setting light to migrant hostels. I am not going to defend Connolly, even if her 31 month sentence was over the top. What she wrote could indeed be taken as incitement, even if she didn’t intend it that way. But what a different story it was when the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 was followed by riots. The protests were described by the BBC as ‘largely peaceful’, even when 14 police officers were injured in Whitehall. Starmer ignored the left-wing violence and took the knee. Remember when comedian Jo Brand, commenting on an incident in which Nigel Farage had a milk shake thrown over him, said “I’m thinking, why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid”. A pathetic BBC response after multiple complaints judged that Brand “went beyond what was appropriate” but dismissed any notion that it constituted incitement. The police showed no interest. The Left, and the Greens in particular, seem to think they are all love and peace. The reality is that they can give the Far Right a good run for its money when it comes to violence and hate speech. Polanski’s inability to see this shows, once again, why he is unfit for public office. 1 comment1