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We'll see how long that lasts.

But also, given Zach Polanski seems to have taken to the tactic of campaigning in Urdu in a seat where there are precisely zero Pakistanis, I don't actually think his campaign's going all that well.

Also, this just so happens to have coincided with his deputy leaders being outed as landlords when the Greens have a zero landlord policy.

Don't know how they're going to enact that, perhaps in the Khmer Rouge fashion.

What should you be taking, if anything at all? What is gonna really benefit you, and what is bakwas? And bakwas is...

The Urdu word for, um, nonsense or BS, or what my mum constantly tells me I'm speaking.

[laughs] Truth and wisdom.

[laughs]

So you can't go applying linguistic translations and meanings to these words.

Not in English, not in Persian, not in Urdu.

No other language will suffice.

You essentially leave it in its Arabic, retain the Arabic term, and you traverse over, pass over it as it is.

There were relics everywhere.

Watches long stopped, dog-eared photos, a velvet pouch still bright inside, love letters in Urdu and Polish and faded Gaelic.

Everything was dust and mildew, but not untouched.

Someone had sealed this place with care years ago.

"No one comes down here unless they know where to look." We examined what we could.

The ledgers, thick as Bibles, were written in a confusion of hands and tongues.

Curling Polish script flowed into English block letters, then Cyrillic, Urdu, Arabic, sometimes all on a single page.

My own professional eye, trained for fraud but not mourning, searched for patterns.

So very positive conversation.

It's great because he speaks Urdu.

I speak Urdu.

So we had that Urdu connection going as well.

But we're going to do another one soon.

So stay tuned.

It looks as if Zach Polanski, the gormless Green Party leader, may well conduct his entire campaign to potentially win Keir Starmer's old seat, Holborn, in London.

In Urdu, here he is again.

He did a direct video last week, you know, I'm in Urdu, I'm Zach Falansky, vote for me and I'll look after Muslim rights and all that.

Here he is again, this time in a restaurant, again speaking in Urdu.

Take it away, Zach.

I'm Zach Polanski, and I'm your MP for St Pancras.

yeah, I want to do it.

There's a big controversy, Darren, raging right now in the Green Party because apparently Zach Polanski has kind of intimated that he fancies speaking as part of his campaign now and again in English, but the Green Party don't want any of that.

Welcome back to Learn Urdu with Vexingo.

I am Lucas.

And I am Luna.

Let us start with a common item in South Asia.

A scarf or shawl?

In Urdu, we often use the word for shawl or large scarf.

Okay.

How do you say that?

And I think she will trump Zach Polanski.

In fact, it's almost evil genius because in normal circumstances, I think Polanski would be very hard to beat because we know, I mean, he's already been putting out campaign messages in Urdu, in Hindi, probably everything but English for some strange reason.

He's been doing that.

And you've got all of that kind of, green, or I should say red-green energy, where they're appealing on the one hand to communists and on the other hand to the Islamists.