Dashboard/Zack Polanski

Zack Polanski

Leader, Green Party

Mostly straight talk

Bluff23%Spin26%

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Against the field

Zack Polanski

Green · UK

5th highest BS Index of 9

Mostly straight talk

BS Index · 25Lower is better

0 · straight talk50

Accuracy · 77% of checked claims hold upHigher is better

0%100%

Answers · 74% of questions answered straightHigher is better

0%100%

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Five Tells

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Unsupported claims 23% Checked claims that did not hold up (partly supported counts as half) Self-contradictions – Not checked yet Dodged questions 26% Questions not answered straight (partly answered or openly declined counts as half) Emotional appeal 10% Emotional passages used in place of an answer or evidence, or off the subject. Emotion that fits the subject is not counted Vague answers Shown, not scored – Not measured yet

Each spoke shows how often it happened: further out means more often. The BS Index goes up with the first four; a hollow dot is context only and does not change the score.

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Accuracy77%

Checked claims that hold upadds 11.7 of 50.0

Supported“a prime minister [Andy Burnham] who says he's going to end neoliberalism but rules out rent controls has his chief of staff as a literal corporate lobbyist.” Interview, 5 Oct 2026 · Novara Media · Novara Media

Partly supported“We've seen today Tom Watson former deputy leader of the Labour party go and join [Palantir]” Interview, 5 Oct 2026 · Novara Media · Option Finance

Supported“the brilliant economist Mariana [Mazzucato] often says that it's not a government's job to fix market failures.” Interview, 5 Oct 2026 · REF impact case study (UCL)

All 62 checked claims, with sources

Answers questions74%

Questions answered straightadds 13.2 of 50.0

AnsweredQ: “Do you find that daunting, Zach? I mean, you're being asked to lead a move to lead a movement here that is going to turn back the tide on everything t…” PoliticsJOE live event with Russell Warfield: The Green Socialist book launch, 5 Oct 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “But staying on that spirit for one moment because at risk of you sounding a little bit like Jacob Ree Mock during the last election when he when he sa…” PoliticsJOE live event with Russell Warfield: The Green Socialist book launch, 5 Oct 2026 · video

AnsweredQ: “Is that how you see it, Zach? Do you see you're sort of building on the foundations of giants or is this a perhaps you've just come up with an entirel…” PoliticsJOE live event with Russell Warfield: The Green Socialist book launch, 5 Oct 2026 · video

All 72 questions

ConsistencyNot checked

No unacknowledged contradictionsshown, not in the score

Contradiction checks start once more of the record is in. Until then this measure is left out, not counted as perfect.

Substance90%

Emotion that comes with substanceshown, not in the score

21 emotional passages labelled, 2 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.