当我于2025年竞选绿党领袖时，我们的党正处于十字路口。卡拉·丹耶尔和阿德里安·拉姆齐的变革性领导带领我们取得了前所未有的选举成功。我知道我们拥有更大的潜力——而国家正渴望我们所能提供的大胆政治。
When I stood for leader of the Greens in 2025, our party was at a crossroads. The transformative leadership of Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay had taken us to an electoral success we’d never seen before. I knew we had even greater potential – and that the country was crying out for the bold politics we could offer.
今年我们取得了前所未有的胜利——从我们有史以来第一次赢得议会补选，到在前工党腹地实现的议会和市长选举压倒性胜利。
We have seen unprecedented wins this year – from our first ever parliamentary byelection win to our landslide council and mayoral victories in former Labour strongholds.
这些胜利动摇了工党。我们的选举成功帮助推翻了基尔·斯塔默，看到他被一位毫无疑问位于他左翼的首相取代。它们迫使政府在与以色列的关系上改变基调。政府甚至已经撤回了一些其残酷的反移民政策。
Those victories have moved Labour. Our electoral successes helped topple Keir Starmer, seeing him replaced by a prime minister unarguably to his left. They forced a change in tone in the government’s relations with Israel. The government has even rowed back on some of its cruel anti-migrant policies.
我们的工作尚未完成。但我们党的下一个阶段将在一个对我们显然更具挑战性的格局中进行。安迪·伯纳姆正享受着蜜月期，尚未面临将揭示谁将在他政府下受损失的“艰难决定”——这些不受欢迎的选择他可能将在即将到来的首个预算中开始实施。
Our work isn’t done. But the next phase for our party takes place in a landscape that is clearly more challenging for us. Andy Burnham is enjoying a honeymoon phase, and hasn’t yet had to make the “difficult decisions” that will reveal exactly who will lose out under his government – unpopular choices he will probably start making at his fast-approaching first budget.
当然，我希望赢得霍尔本和圣潘克拉斯补选。但我们的结果表明，正如民意调查专家约翰·柯蒂斯所说，我们的党在像这样的地方对工党构成的威胁比以往任何时候都更大。我们在一个工党自1983年以来一直稳固把持的选区中将得票率提高了三倍，迫使工党在一个它曾经视为理所当然的选区中艰苦作战。
Of course I wanted to win the Holborn and St Pancras byelection. But our result shows, as the polling expert John Curtice has said, that our party represents a greater threat to Labour in places like this than ever before. We tripled our vote share in a seat that Labour has comfortably held since 1983 and forced it to campaign hard in a constituency it would once have taken for granted.
我们已经改变了选举格局，并且作为现代政治史上首次在工党左翼构成全国性严重威胁的力量，我们将长期存在。
We have transformed the electoral landscape and, as the first nationwide serious threat to Labour on its left in modern political history, we are here to stay.
这一结果也出现在我们党面临困难的时刻。在我们大会上通过的一项动议——“锡安主义就是种族主义”——在党内许多成员和更广泛的公众中引发了强烈情绪。我知道也有人对我在这项议题上的做法提出了质疑。
The result also came at a difficult moment for our party. A motion voted through at our conference, “Zionism is racism”, has stirred up strong feelings among many members and the wider public too. And I know there have been questions about my approach to the motion.
我是一名在犹太复国主义家庭中长大的犹太男子。我被告知的以色列故事是关于命运与安全的：一片无人之地，供无人之人居住。但后来我了解到曾居住在这片土地上的人们——以及他们所经历的一切。巴勒斯坦人被驱逐出家园；遭到大规模屠杀；而那些仍然留存的人，正生活在一个剥夺他们基本权利的种族隔离制度之下，其中包括自决权。
I’m a Jewish man who grew up in a Zionist household. The story I was told about Israel was one of destiny and safety: a land without a people for a people without a land. But since then I have learned about the people who did live on that land – and what has happened to them. The Palestinians driven from their homes; slaughtered en masse; and those who remain, living under an apartheid system that denies them fundamental rights, including that of self-determination.
认识到如何应对这一有缺陷的提案并不容易，因为其内容与我对犹太复国主义的理解相呼应——即一种意识形态，它为巴勒斯坦人的流离失所和种族灭绝提供了理论基础。这一点我与许多其他犹太人共享，包括大屠杀幸存者斯蒂芬·卡波斯，他是支持该提案的人之一。
It has been difficult knowing how to approach this imperfect motion, because its substance chimes with my understanding of Zionism as the ideology that underpins the displacement and genocide of Palestinians. This is something I share with many other Jewish people, including Stephen Kapos, the holocaust survivor who was one of those supporting the motion.
与此同时，犹太复国主义并不容易被定义，我知道对许多犹太人而言，它与身份、安全和归属感紧密相连。在我看来，政党的职责不是告诉人们应该相信什么——而且过度聚焦于定义既不理想也不具战略意义。
At the same time, Zionism is not easily defined, and I know for many Jewish people it is bound up with identity, safety and belonging. In my view it’s not the job of a political party to tell people what to believe – and a narrow focus on definitions is neither desirable nor strategic.
此外，该提案中也有我不同意的内容——例如，规定以色列和巴勒斯坦地区国家未来的形状。虽然许多人可以理解地认为两国方案阻碍了结束当前无法忍受现状的具体行动，但我认为英国政府——更不用说绿党了——没有权利决定以色列人和巴勒斯坦人的未来。
There are also elements of the motion that I don’t agree with – such as dictating the future shape of a state in Israel and Palestine. While many people understandably see the idea of a two-state solution as standing in the way of concrete action to end the unbearable status quo, I believe it is not up to the British government – let alone the Green party – to decide the future for Israelis and Palestinians.
在投票之前，我明确表示希望看到一些修正案通过，但我很失望，这些修正案最终未能获通过。
Before the vote, I made it clear that there were amendments I would like to see made, and I am disappointed that those did not pass.
我被问及为何未出席投票。原因在于，我优先考虑的是为我们的党在一场关系重大的补选中奋战。尽管工党将投票日期安排得离我们的大会非常近，我仍将全部精力投入到霍尔本和圣潘克拉斯的竞选中，因为我知道，最终的选举成功才是我们推动变革的途径。不过，我知道有些人因我的决定感到失望——我也听到了他们的声音。
I have been asked why I was not present for the vote. The answer is that my priority was fighting a hugely consequential byelection for our party. I put all my energy into the race in Holborn and St Pancras, despite Labour choosing the polling date so close to our conference, because I know that ultimately electoral success is how we drive change. I know, though, that some feel let down by that decision – and I hear that.
如今，我的责任是团结我们的党，以实现我们的全部潜力。这始于我给出的保证：在我领导下，我不会容忍反犹主义。无论出于何种背景、信仰或崇拜场所，不会有人被排斥。我将会见党内任何感到受到威胁的群体，以确切了解他们需要什么才能感到安全和受欢迎。
My responsibility now is to bring our party together to achieve our full potential. This starts with an assurance from me: under my leadership, I will not tolerate antisemitism. No one will be made unwelcome because of their background, their faith or where they worship. I will meet any group within our party that fears victimisation to understand exactly what they need in order to feel safe and welcome.
其次，我们的党已经发展到了我们在成为领导人时无法预料的规模。我们的党内民主现在必须随之演变，以适应这一变化——为成员创造更广泛的参与，赋予领导人更大责任以制定党的战略方向，并使我们的流程尽可能健全且易于参与。
Second, our party has grown to a size none of us could have anticipated when I became leader. Our party democracy must now evolve to meet that – creating wider engagement for members, giving leaders more responsibility to set the party’s strategic direction, and making our processes as robust and accessible as possible.
最重要的是，这种团结必须用于推动国家向更好的方向发展。目前，这届政府正走向主持现代史上生活水平最差的议会。能源账单预计今冬将再次上涨；租金上涨的速度预计将加快。与此同时，伯纳姆对账单提供的支持毫无具体内容，并排除了任何租金控制的可能性；改革英国仍在利用生活成本压力在我们社区中挑起分裂。
Above all, that unity must be deployed in the service of changing this country for the better. This government is on course to preside over the worst parliament for living standards in modern times. Energy bills are expected to rise again this winter; rent increases are forecast to speed up. Meanwhile, Burnham is offering no concrete support for bills and ruling out any controls on rents, and Reform UK is still using cost of living pressures to stir up division in our communities.
绿党的大胆、原则性的想法从未如此迫切需要。从对租金实施紧急制动，到水公司的全面公有制，我们正在提供政府否则不会采纳的解决方案——除非我们迫使它这么做。我们还有工作要做——而我将团结我们的党，把事情做成。
The Green party’s bold, principled ideas have never been more needed. From an emergency brake on rents to full public ownership of water companies, we are offering solutions that this government won’t go near unless we force it to. We have work to do – and I will bring my party together to get it done.
扎克·波兰斯基是英格兰和威尔士绿党的领袖，也是伦敦议会成员。
Zack Polanski is the leader of the Green party of England and Wales and a member of the London assembly