Green Party is it's own worst enemy - Zack Polanski will hate reality of own success

Could a reinvigorated Green Party inadvertently help Nigel Farage into power? Seat projections still put the Greens well behind Labour but, climbing in the polls every week, the insurgent left-wing party risks splitting the leftist vote and giving Reform UK an easier path to victory. Check out the latest opinion poll for Find Out Now. For the first time, the Greens are neck-and-neck with Labour on 15%. Unbelievably - and for the first time in a long time - this pushed Labour behind the Tories, who are on 17%.

The Left is fond of saying its combined vote is bigger than that of the Right. Yet - by this poll anyway - the Greens and Labour combined sit on 30%, and that is still behind Reform on 32%. Admittedly, combine that 30% with the Lib Dems (if the Greens would see them as left-wing), and the SNP, and that leftist coalition jumps to 46%.

Yet Reform and the Tories combined still sit on 49% according to this latest poll. Now of course this is only one snapshot of the public mood, but there is no question the Greens - plus Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party - threaten to splinter the Left vote more than Reform threatens to splinter the Right.

Part of the reason for this is Reform has been adept at winning over the Brexit base in both the Conservative and Labour parties.

Crucially, Reform - far from rehashing Maggie's greatest hits - found the sweet spot of being conservative on immigration and crime, and supporting low tax where possible, but also leaning leftwards on aspects of the economy and welfare.

Mischaracterising Reform as Thatcherite looks desperate when Farage and co are talking about nationalisation of steel and of utilities, as well as opposing the winter fuel and two-child benefit cuts.

This is no accident. A political journey which follows Poland's Law and Justice party and elements of the MAGA movement, these ideas would not look out of place in Japan and the Asian Tiger countries.

Keeping a lid on immigration, and making sure crooks get punished, does not necessitate Tory-style flogging the family silver. Indeed, pragmatic patriotism necessitates protecting national assets.

This helps explain why Reform is winning over both old Labour and Tory voters, and becoming the voice of British conservatism, while the Greens and Corbyn risk splitting the Left and smoothing the way for Nigel Farage.

British politics has perhaps never looked this volatile. The Greens are on the march, Corbyn looks to make gains, and Reform is ending the year as the highest rated party.

In their dust are a forlorn Labour government and a moribund Conservative opposition. But the Greens - in their quest for dominance - risk perhaps their biggest nightmare in undermining Sir Keir and co.