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Green Party leader Zack Polanski has told his party’s conference a tax on the wealthiest would end “rip-off Britain” and make the country “an affordable” place to live.

He told party members in Bournemouth that taxing the assets of the richest one per cent would enable the government to fund universal free childcare, special needs education and rural bus routes.

According to the BBC, he said:

“You cannot be an effective environmentalist without talking about the deep inequality in our society.”

Polanski argued that the country’s problems were “rooted in an economic model built on austerity and privatisation” but that the Green Party would “break the shackles of poverty and hardship that lock so many in”.

“This is a country with so much going for it, but we have been failed time and time again by a political class poisoned by extreme wealth and you can see that poison everyday.”

“A country where a tiny few have taken our power and wealth. Things must change. It’s time to take it back.”

Luminaries such as Gary Stevenson and Faiza Shaheen have said a wealth tax is the only way forward. Vox Political supports a tax on the proceeds of wealth (because it would be easier to calculate and collect – but the principle is the same.

Labour – the current party of government – is freezing tax thresholds to ensure that more working-class people pay more tax, and is considering taxing middle-class people more.

The plan is to leave the super-rich alone – I think possibly because those are the people who donate the money that keeps Labour going, after Keir Starmer alienated all the party members who remembered Labour’s original values.

Who do you support?

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