Jeremy Clarkson ridicules Zack Polanski over Green leader’s local election remarks: ‘Not very good at adding up!’

The former Top Gear star has made no secret of his opposition to a number of Green policies

Jeremy Clarkson has unleashed a fresh swipe at Green Party leader Zack Polanski following his reaction to this week’s local elections performance by the Greens.

The Green Party secured an unprecedented double triumph in London’s mayoral contests, with Zoë Garbett claiming victory in Hackney and Liam Shrivastava winning in Lewisham to become the party’s first directly elected mayors.

Ms Garbett’s success ended Labour’s 24-year grip on the east London borough, defeating former mayor Caroline Woodley with 35,720 votes against 26,685.

In Lewisham, Mr Shrivastava secured 35,265 votes, comfortably ahead of Labour’s Amanda De Ryk on 30,374, with Reform UK’s Pete Newman trailing in third place with 7,288.

Green leader Mr Polanski hailed the Hackney result as “a historic victory”.

He went on to declare the traditional dominance of Labour and the Conservatives to be over following his party’s electoral breakthrough.

“Two-party politics is not just dying, it is dead, and it is buried,” he said. “And actually, whether it’s here that Labour have been rejected, or whether we’re seeing around the country, it’s very clear that the new politics is the Green Party versus Reform.”

The Green leader demanded that the prime minister step aside, insisting this reflected the national mood rather than his personal view.

“My message to Keir Starmer is it’s time to go,” Mr Polanski stated. “The country has clearly rejected you.”

While Mr Clarkson is famously not a fan of the prime minister, himself, he couldn’t help but take issue with Mr Polanski’s remarks following the vote.

In his latest column for The Sun, Mr Clarkson appeared to take pleasure in ridiculing Mr Polanski’s comments regarding “two-party politics”, pointing out a rather glaring contradiction.

“In the Times last weekend, Zack Polanski told the interviewer that at school, he’d never had any friends. Turns out he hasn’t got that many voters either,” Mr Clarkson’s scathing critique began.

“Maybe it’s because he’s not very good at adding up.”

Exposing the flaw in Mr Polanski’s gloating, the Clarkson’s Farm star mocked: “He said, after the elections this week, that ‘two-party politics is dead and buried’ and that ‘the new politics is the Green Party versus Reform’.

“And how many ­parties is that, Zack? Seven? Forty-two? A hundred and six?”

This isn’t the first time Mr Clarkson has called out the Green Party leader, previously branding him a “snaggle-toothed vegan” and publicly tearing into Green policies such as legalised drug use and wealth taxes.

Meanwhile, beyond the capital, the Greens seized control of Norwich City Council, which had previously operated without any single party holding a majority, while also taking charge of Waltham Forest in London.

The party’s advance extended to Westminster’s doorstep, with the Labour leader of Camden Council losing his seat to a Green candidate in the borough containing Mr Starmer’s own Holborn and St Pancras constituency.

Historic breakthroughs came in the devolved parliaments too. Welsh Green leader Anthony Slaughter captured one of six seats in Caerdydd Penarth, delivering the party its inaugural Senedd representation.

North of the border, the Greens claimed constituency victories in Edinburgh Central and Glasgow Southside.

Reform UK, meanwhile, enjoyed huge success of its own. The party consolidated its position as a major electoral force by building on last year’s success when it gained control of 10 councils.

Nigel Farage characterised the results as evidence of a fundamental realignment in British politics.

“What’s happened is a truly historic shift in British politics,” he said.

“We’ve been so used to thinking about politics in terms of left and right, yet what Reform are able to do is to win in areas that have always been Conservative, but equally, we’re proving in a big way that we could win in areas that Labour has dominated since the end of World War I.”

The party won control of councils including Hartlepool, Tameside, Redditch and Tamworth from Labour, while taking Newcastle-under-Lyme from the Conservatives.

Mr Farage insisted voters were not simply registering protest but “becoming Reformers in every way.”