Zack Polanski has bigot Katie Hopkins rattled

UK fascists are trying to paint the upcoming Manchester by-election as a battle between Reform and Muslims, via Zack Polanski’s Green Party. But far-right hate-monger and bigot Katie Hopkins has gone even further, sending out a dog whistle to anyone who hates Jewish and gay people too.

Zack Polanski rises above it

Green Party leader Zack Polanski rose above her bullshit. And he used the opportunity to highlight the media’s role in Hopkins gaining such a prominent platform:

Whether it's the UK, or the US, The Apprentice has a lot to answer for… https://t.co/2WqEUj61D7

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) January 27, 2026

Hopkins had previously suggested the Greens were “the Muslim Party in camo gear”, and essentially framed the Gorton and Denton by-election as a battle between ‘Reform and Muslims’. You’ll notice she conveniently failed to mention the Christian, Jewish, or other religious (and non-religious) support the Greens will likely attract in the election.

Hopkin’s comments fit neatly into the far right’s racist dog-whistle about Muslim people, whom fascists try to demonise despite evidence suggesting extreme violence is less likely from people with a “well-established religious identity”.

Fascist Katie Hopkins calls the Green Party "the Muslim Party in camo gear" and essentially suggests that the Gorton and Denton by-election will be 'Reform vs Muslims' pic.twitter.com/biOY2VAyZE

— Ed Sykes (@OsoSabioUK) January 28, 2026

Corporate stooge, “Temu Enoch Powell“, and Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Mike Tapp, meanwhile, has suggested “dodgy” Polanski is trying to “hypnotise” people in Gorton and Denton. And Tommy Robinson has been whining about “the beginning of the end” that a “Green/Islamic alliance” could represent. Rattled, fascists?

Media helped Katie Hopkins spread her violence-inciting hatred

Hopkins is no peace lover herself, though. She once suggested a “final solution” was necessary, for example. And she dehumanised migrants as “cockroaches” while calling for “gunships” to deal with them.

She is also the ‘woman of the people’ who went to a private school, had “intelligence corps” sponsorship for her degree, and has openly shown consistent disrespect for:

• Working-class people
• Women
• Disabled people
• Fat people
• Full-time mums
• Ginger people
• People with tattoos

And the list goes on. The elitist hate and contempt for pretty much everyone who isn’t a fascist just oozes out of her.

No wonder she has called herself the “female Farage“.

But as Polanski pointed out, one of the most shameful things is that the mainstream media has given her such a big platform to spread her misanthropy. Because like millionaire Thatcherite and current Reform leader Nigel Farage, Hopkins has played the media machine effectively.

Via reality TV shows like the Apprentice, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, and Celebrity Big Brother, Hopkins boosted her profile with an early version of today’s ‘rage–baiting‘ money machine.

The right fears unity

It’s not just fascists who are trying to rally people with dogwhistles around the Gorton and Denton by-election. The right-wing Labour government is also bricking it. Because a Green victory could spell the end for the rubbish about needing to mimic Reform, and possibly the beginning of the end for Labour itself:

🥀It’s over, Labour.

Bring it on, Reform! 👇 pic.twitter.com/rA9eHM8Mnn

— Manchester Green Party 🐝 (@McrGreenParty) January 28, 2026

But the far right’s scare tactics aren’t working. Because Polanski just shakes off the attacks from rage baiting influencers and corporate media shills. And he focuses attention back on what matters:

Cost of Living + Renationalise + Protect the NHS +International Justice = Hope & Win#Vote4Hope #VoteGreen https://t.co/Uuu3VdgLvK

— Mick ☕️🍉 (@MickCoffey2) January 27, 2026

That hopeful, compassionate, and unifying message resonates.

It has taken the Greens up to over 190,000 members. It has brought the Scottish Greens closer to their English and Welsh sister party again. And it has provided a new home for large numbers of Labour voters who are sick of the party’s leap to the right.

Polanski’s party is now putting forward a realistic alternative to the divisiveness of Reform and Labour in Gorton and Denton. The Labour vote “has collapsed” there, so a strong Green challenge to the hate of Reform, Hopkins, Robinson, and Labour is absolutely possible.

With unity, Gorton and Denton can defeat hateful elitism. And we truly hope it will.

Featured image via the Canary