Overview
- A collaborative Instagram post from a Green Party event included a photo of a man wearing a T‑shirt reading “We’re only making plans for Nigel” beside a guillotine, which Green leader Zack Polanski accepted to his account and then unshared when alerted.
- Reform UK reported Polanski to the Metropolitan Police and its leader Nigel Farage and home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf publicly demanded arrest after describing the image as incitement to murder.
- The freelance photographer who originally posted the image apologised, said it was meant as satire, and says they have self‑reported the post to police.
- On Wednesday the Met said it would take no further action over Polanski’s share because an extensive probe was judged disproportionate and Avon and Somerset Police likewise said the T‑shirt incident did not meet the criminal threshold.
- The decision has widened a political row with Reform UK criticising the outcome and lodging further complaints while Polanski maintains the share was inadvertent and refuses to apologise, a dispute intensified by heightened concern over MPs’ safety after the recent killing of Ann Widdecombe.