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CRUMBRIA: 16.3.2026

THE News & Shrug, Carlisle, has churned out an absurd article about the unstoppable rise of the Green Party.

The source for this stunning exclusive?

Er, the Green Party in West Cumberland. Elected councillors?

Three.

“I think our time has come,” Cllr Jill Perry mused to the paper.

“Our local party branch has quadrupled in the last six months, since Zack Polanski,” said Ms Perry, a Crumberland councillor.

The News & Shrug would have us believe that voters have been hypnotised by boob-whisperer, ‘Crack’ Polanski, a walking, talking advert for the NHS dentist shortage.

The Greens may be enjoying their moment in Gorton & Denton where casting votes is a much-loved family occasion, but could a win like that seriously happen here in Crumbria?

West Cumberland, of course, is home to Sellafield, which nationally the Greens are staunchly opposed to.

We’re no experts, but isn’t that going to be a hard sell on the doorstep?

We had credited the “ace reporter” at Scroogequest with more sense, given that he has recently been asking unpleasant questions of politicians.

Only looney left wing yo-yo’s would start coronating the Greens as the political answer that Crumbria’s crying out for.

Also unreported is that in the most recent electoral test in Cumbria last Thursday, Green voters hardly stormed the polling stations.

The party came a very distant third in Penrith South with 225 votes (10%). A 2.5% improvement.

Another factor which has not been probed by gullible young churnalists here, is that the Greens locally keep saying that membership has “doubled” then “quadrupled’.

We don’t doubt it, but it’s meaningless unless hard numbers are provided to back it up.

And consider below, if you would, how the News & Shrug, Carlisle, and its sister paper headlines articles about the Greens compared to how they headline articles about Reform.