Polanski calls Starmer ‘caretaker PM’ in response to ‘extremist’ jibes

Labour’s plan to counter the growing success of Polanski and the Green Party is to rerun the smears MPs levelled against Jeremy Corbyn. They’re struggling to repeat the same playbook, however, because the Labour right is in power — and everyone hates them. As such, when they wag their fingers and say ‘that guy’s an extremist’, people think ‘these finger-wagging liars think I’m an idiot‘.

Of all the finger wagging idiots in the Labour Party, none are more loathed than the top man — Keir Starmer. And this is how Greens leader Polanski responded to Starmer’s latest push to neutralise criticism:

The caretaker PM is running scared and resorting to more smears because he knows the game is up.

Labour is sinking in Gorton and Denton and it’s left to the Greens to challenge the far right threat of Reform.

Island of strangers? No. An Island of hope and unity. https://t.co/OH5iy21LDo

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) February 13, 2026

Extremists?

In the above tweet, the Times’ Steven Swinford notes that:

In his strongest attack yet on Labour’s new electoral rivals, the prime minister will use a speech in Munich to warn that, for all their differences, both parties are “soft on Russia and weak on Nato”

He will argue their approach would lead only to “division and capitulation” and the result would be that “the lamps would go out across Europe once again”

If you’re unfamiliar with ‘NATO’, it’s the protection racket run by the United States. As we reported, the US recently threatened to invade NATO member Greenland. This means NATO is effectively dead as a serious project. Before all that happened, Polanski suggested we should question the reliability of the US, and still, he’s the one who’s not serious according to some.

Swinford continued:

He will argue their approach would lead only to “division and capitulation” and the result would be that “the lamps would go out across Europe once again”

His comments are a direct quote of Sir Edward Grey, a former British foreign secretary, who, on the eve of the First World War, warned that the lamps were “going out” all over Europe

“It’s striking that the different ends of the spectrum share so much,” Starmer will say. “Soft on Russia and weak on Nato — if not outright opposed. [They are] determined to sacrifice the longstanding relationships that we want and need to build on the altar of their ideology. The future they offer is one of division and then capitulation. The lamps would go out across Europe once again.”

He will add: “We must level with the public and build consent for the decisions we will have to take to keep us all safe. Because if we don’t, the peddlers of easy answers on the extreme left and the extreme right are ready. They will offer their solutions instead.”

Sir Keir Starmer: Vote Reform or Green and risk war

Unserious comments from an unserious man.

After all, Starmer is the man who supported an ongoing genocide. He’s also the guy who failed to stand up to Trump any of the times he threatened to invade other countries. Well, to be fair, he did send a single soldier to defend Greenland.

Opposing genocide is extremism?

As Ed Sykes reported for the Canary on 14 February, the Greens’ opposition to Zionism has landed them in trouble with the establishment:

There have historically been different strains of Zionism — the Jewish nationalist movement behind the colonisation of Israel. But the dominant form today is a supremacist extremism that empowers racism, apartheid, and genocide. Zionism is not Judaism, no matter how much Israel’s leaders and cheerleaders want to blur the line.

Now, Green members are campaigning for a spring conference motion that seeks to acknowledge that “Zionism is Racism” and declare the party as “an Anti-Zionist Party.” They also seek a rejection of cynical attempts to “equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism” in order “to silence legitimate criticism” of Israel.

Journalist Matt Kennard highlighted that the media is now gunning for the Greens as a result:

Green Party will likely vote to be first major UK political party that is anti-Zionist at its Spring Conference (Motion A105)

This will be a watershed moment in British politics

So the subversion steps up. This absurd article is the beginning

Anti-Zionism is anti-fascism pic.twitter.com/oP9PfM0X0L

— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) February 12, 2026

Two fronts

Reform have also responded to Starmer’s attack:

In a desperate attempt to save his job, Keir Starmer is attacking Reform UK today.

This weak, unpatriotic Prime Minister caves in to China, gives away the Chagos Islands and refuses to properly fund our armed forces. He is on borrowed time.

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) February 14, 2026

As you’ll see from our coverage, it’s obvious we’re no fans of Farage or Reform. At the same time, it’s obvious why Starmer is resorting to attacking his rivals; it’s because his Labour Party have nothing to offer.

Nothing besides endless paedophile scandals, that is.

What a sorry state of affairs.

Featured image via Barold/the Canary