Outstanding answer.

He was proposing to cut Business Tax for small businesses as well as reducing their National Insurance. It’s unfortunate that you oppose that Glynn.

@ToryFibs How much are yah earning Glynn ?

The way LauraK jumps in to shut him down the minute he says something common sense that is going to be popular with electorate.

Why should BBC licence fee payers cough up £400,000 a year to pay for @bbclaurak' salary? Yet here she is moaning that the poorest workers might get paid get a few quid more an hour. We are the 5th largest economy - we can afford to treat employees decently. #bbclaurak

How did Britain get to a point where one of the top 3 party’s was run by a complete moron 🤯

Tax the rich and the rich will leave. Well done, now there's no tax from the rich at all.

Absolutely! Laura Kuenssberg was quick with her hostile questions, but when @ZackPolanski responded with logical, fair and workable answer she moved on sharpish! Make hope normal again, vote @TheGreenParty! #bbclaurak

It’s also not said enough that some of the increased employment costs will be offset by people having more money in their pockets that may spend that in small businesses.

Funny how they never ask where the money is coming from when it is used to buy weapons and other military equipment 🤔

The more I hear Zack Polanski setting out his views, the more I realise that he is the person best equipped to deal with the dire multifaceted crisis we are facing today.

This is just bullshit all that will happen is prices go up even more ! I’m not paying £20 for a coffee to pay some stupid student!

@ZackPolanski She really doesn’t like it when Zack answers her ‘gotchas’ coherently and with substance

So the wealth tax proceeds will be used to lower business rates? Polanski has a million different new spending proposals and every time he’s asked how he’ll fund it he says wealth tax. How is this possible?

Greens plan to kill entry level jobs for young & unskilled. This is What Minimum wage looks like!

@ZackPolanski Keeps butting in when she thinks he isn't answering the question then tries to stop him when he directly is. Definitely no agenda there.

Always “where’s the money coming from?” when it helps us. I dunno Sharon, plenty of tax payers money going to the rich and big corporations in tax cuts, subsidising low wages, bail outs when they fail and inflated contracts gifted to donors by MPs. Maybe start there? 🤷🏻

"How are they gonna afford it?" Asks someone on around £400k a year about the idea of raising the minimum wage to £15 p/h.

@whoknowswhy70 Perhaps Zack should have asked Laura if she would work for £12.71/hr?

It's a scattergun approach to answering, not the best really, he will get torn apart by proper interviewers

He has no understanding of how things work in the real world. What would happen is that small businesses will have to raise prices and people will stop spending and the economy will collapse.

Those who receive the minimum wage spend in the local economy. So small businesses will benefit from the spending that is generated. We have had 40 years of tax cuts, what wonderful success that has been,not. #bbclaurak

@ZackPolanski He’s dangerous!!

Is there a link to a policy document / whitepaper where this is costed? He's just said that minimum wage increases will be covered by changing of business rates and reductions in NI payments. Ok, changed / reduced by how much? can we see any numbers?

@bestcanton7 Actually it's still promoting the Thatcherite myth of taxes paying for govt spending. A wealth tax doesn't give the govt a penny more to spend than it had prior to the tax. Govt spending doesn't happen the way people think it does. But he's right otherwise.

Answer my question. No not THAT answer.

He's an actor called Dave

Funny how she tried to cut him off…

Brilliant

No it isn’t 🙄 Who’s deciding which business is providing a “social good”. How is the drop in business rates and NI to be funded? Councils are already on their knees, and council tax payers are already strapped. It’s so stupid.

That means he doesn’t know🤷🏻‍♂️

@ZackPolanski God she’s so desperate to interrupt him🤣

@JustMeBeingMe4 Same argument every time a politician talks about a fair living wage…… ffs and people still fall for this gaslighting

LK doing the interrupt & change subject tactic the moment when the notion of properly taxing billionaires is brought up. Like the good little shill she is.

UK have billions to fund Isreal but not enough money to help young people?

He said he would "support" small businesses by reducing rates etc, making it easier to pay higher min wage..how will he fund those reductions? He'll be left with a giant hole in his budget. £12 billion won't even start to fill it in.