Streeting monstered in new row with Polanski and the Greens

On Sunday 12 April, we reported that Wes Streeting is once again gearing up for a leadership challenge. Should Streeting become PM, he would have two key opponents: Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski. If you’re wondering how well Streeting would do against the latter, please see the below:

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— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) April 12, 2026

Polanski and titnotherapy

When Zack Polanski became the Green Party leader, the Labour Party immediately launched what they believed would be a devastating line of attack. According to them, Polanski had once tried to hypnotise women into have larger breasts. As Ed Sykes reported for us in September 2025, Polanski:

clarified that he never believed he could enlarge breasts with hypnotherapy, that he never charged people to try and do it, that the Sun misrepresented him, and that he had apologised a day later. He even got a few laughs by saying “lots of men got in touch with me asking if I could help with other body parts”.

Since Labour launched this attack, Polanski has more than quadrupled his party’s membership; he’s also pulled ahead of Labour in the polls.

How have Labour responded to this new reality?

As you can see above, by repeating the same smear which has had zero impact on Polanski’s standing:

Does streeting just genuinely not realize that whenever he goes after Zack he loses in devastating fashion? https://t.co/EoryrHcSHn

— James (@TaxingChimp) April 12, 2026

When Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour leader, there was a popular meme which told the following story:

Tony Blair: You should be more right-wing.

Jeremy Corbyn: You should be in prison.

Tony Blair: *HANGS HEAD IN SHAME*

We’re seeing something similar with Streeting.

He knows he has to take the fight to the Greens, but his record in office means he’s fighting with both arms tied behind his back and a handgun in his mouth.

Clearly, being connected to Peter Mandelson is much, much worse than anything Polanski has ever done. Mandelson literally referred to himself as the Prince of Darkness and as a practitioner of the ‘Dark Arts’, which is a big step up from hypnotherapy, no?

It doesn’t end with Mandelson, either. Streeting is up to his eyeballs in donations from private health vultures, as James Wright reported for the Canary on 1 April 2025:

Health secretary Wes Streeting accepted over £50,000 from a company with links to private healthcare recruitment on 3 February. Not long after on 18 February, Streeting announced he was abolishing NHS England and cutting 9,000 public jobs. This raises the question of whether the private sector would replace the public sector job cuts, with the Labour Party already increasing private provision of NHS services under Keir Starmer.

Oh, and there’s also this:

You armed a genocide and trained the army who committed it. No amount of spin and distraction can wash all that blood away. https://t.co/IcNxuq24Ak

— Ross Greer (@Ross_Greer) April 12, 2026

Red hands or Green fingers

Keir Starmer’s Labour operation is one of the most hated governments we’ve ever had, and Streeting is a key cog in that machine.

He’s delusional if he thinks there’s some clever attack line which will make voters forget who he is or what he’s done. He’s not delusional to think he could replace Starmer, however, as Streeting is precisely the sort of slug who does well in the Labour Party.

This is why they’re about to get wiped out in the local elections.

Starmer encouraged activists to leave Labour, now they're drafting MPs to make up for lack of door knockers — who could have seen it coming?

Via @willem_moore_uk https://t.co/0Qd5wHTgTd

— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) April 12, 2026

Featured image via Barold