Polanski guillotine image police decision

Green Party leader Zack Polanski shared a social media post containing an image of a man wearing a T-shirt with a guillotine and the words 'We're only making plans for Nigel', a reference to United Kingdom — Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. United Kingdom — Reform UK reported Polanski to the United Kingdom — Metropolitan Police, and Farage called for his arrest. The Met reviewed the case and decided no further action would be taken against Polanski for sharing the image, citing that the threshold for a criminal offence was not met and that investigating all 130+ accounts that shared the post would be disproportionate. However, the Met recorded a crime for wearing the T-shirt and referred it to United Kingdom — Avon and Somerset Police, who also decided no further action. Polanski stated the sharing was an inadvertent mistake and declined to apologize. United Kingdom — Reform UK criticized the decision as evidence of 'two-tier policing'.