The Greens: a voice for the voiceless or a middle-class sect?

The Greens: a voice for the voiceless or a middle-class sect? | Anywhere but Westminster

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9 жыл бұрын

The Green party thinks Bristol West could deliver its second seat in parliament - but to achieve that, they will have to reach way beyond their bohemian comfort zone into the city's more deprived areas.
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John Harris joins the party faithful as they canvass high-rise estates and aim for working-class and ethnic minority votes, while trying to lay to rest Natalie Bennett's 'brain fade' and sound a loud message of hope.
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@katiestolealltheunicorns9309 7 жыл бұрын

I think it's a bit of a double standard to call all the greens these rich bourgeois types, when Westminster is jam packed with corrupt richboys. I mean the ones with the most resources are going to be the most visible. It is fair to say they have less experience, but some experience you only get when enough people vote for you. I just believe in the ethics, so that's who I vote for.

@jamesduffy7549 3 жыл бұрын

Being in a position where you can (literally) afford to not swallow all of your ethics, and allow a tory victory, is a privileged position.

@MatthewRichardson1 9 жыл бұрын

I might join as the token black guy.

@stephenverchinski409 4 жыл бұрын

You are not a token when a Green. In the U.S.A. you can run for the highest office in the land.

@MrDanielfff777 3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenverchinski409 huh

@OakleyANDSittingBull Жыл бұрын

@Stephen Verchinski, Not if a Green, he’d never be accepted as a (Moderate Conservative) Democrat. And, if he became an a Independent after being voted in as a Democrat, as an Africoid man, he’d be called on leveraging in an unethical manner rather than running as an independent from the beginning, as Caucasoid womxn extremists and others, should be already.

@TheDreadfulCurtain 9 жыл бұрын

I live in brighton we have the greens they have been good, especially Caroline Lucas-she has fought for a lot of marganalized people and have been brilliant helping address the crumbling hospital and long waiting lists.

@PsychosisFire 7 жыл бұрын

I'm not voting Green but I don't have anything bad to say about them. I agree with a lot of their policies - they'd be my second party of choice, if we had a different voting system.

@stephenverchinski409 4 жыл бұрын

Used to vote for liberal progressives but they are not about to give up on illegal wars.

@rorylamond3640 3 жыл бұрын

I feel exactly the same way about the Green Party here in Scotland. Thankfully we do have a different voting system which allows you to vote twice, I usually lend the greens as my second choice.

@smistonian2499 3 жыл бұрын

We're only going to ever get a different voting system if people wised up and vote for it

@jamesduffy7549 3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenverchinski409 yeah if only you'd voted green in 1997 so that the tories could have just taken us to iraq anyway

@OakleyANDSittingBull Жыл бұрын

@James Duffy, Get real, it’s twenty-five years ON.

@tomwoodburn97 9 жыл бұрын

Really enjoying this series, a good and different insight into how party policies can affect local areas. Thanks guardian

@MissLydiePidie 9 жыл бұрын

"Not the Greens usual territory, no whole foods" hahahaha love it!

@stephenverchinski409 3 жыл бұрын

The farmers market has greens too!

@blinkinyourarea244 4 жыл бұрын

Love the greens! In my local council - despite having only 2 seats, they have pushed for many environmental reforms here!

@nationharris 7 жыл бұрын

Don't think I've ever seen the Greens in Nottingham

@Cashback13 7 жыл бұрын

Maybe go to a meeting and you will see lots of them? Just google Nottingham Green Party and you can find out where they have been. They ain't gonna just randomly turn up on your doorstep just cause they pass through your mind one day haha.

@Cashback13 7 жыл бұрын

I know who you are. :-)

@Cashback13 7 жыл бұрын

Look forward to seeing if you can figure out how.

@beltingtokra Жыл бұрын

If I didn't live in a Brexit loving northern constituency, I'd vote green. But Labour are the best '"anti tory" option in my area.

@AMorandir Жыл бұрын

Here in Australia, voting is compulsory. I swear, it's an absolute neccesity for genuine democracy.

@moussaouiahmed 9 жыл бұрын

oui

@jonclark1113 3 жыл бұрын

I've got respect for the woman candidate trying to be different - still a party for the trendies "

@kaze987 7 ай бұрын

What's an election? My goodness

@antonystaples3834 Жыл бұрын

Why are we being subjected to pollution and toxic chemicals from others and why and where are the Green Party, that I voted for, to reduce our health issues from this poisoning?

@jonclark1113 3 жыл бұрын

Green party is for the middle class types to speak about doing their bit at dinner parties. Trendy coffee shops etc.

@forevertogether3733 Жыл бұрын

Can the Green party here in Bristol Bedminster stop our poor living conditions from toxic poisoning from other? BS34JY

@danspataru8273 6 жыл бұрын

the street and weather is just so deplorable..

@sim6699 9 жыл бұрын

I do hope the green party are able to secure this seat. #fingerscrossed

@computerlad8458 9 жыл бұрын

sim6699 hahahahahaha

@loren-sh4xq 7 жыл бұрын

Are these still a party,

@cohentaylor5625 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. A major international force.

@BritishRepublicsn Жыл бұрын

Yes

@DevonPixie1991 Жыл бұрын

The poo bus was nothing short of a gimmick and now no longer runs. The passionate activism has now gone and it’s a dump

@Marenqo 6 жыл бұрын

middle-class liberals...

@NeverRubARhubarb 3 жыл бұрын

You say that like it's a bad thing.

@OakleyANDSittingBull Жыл бұрын

@Pidols, At the time, at the meeting in the video, those involved in the recruitment day out in Bristol, sure. Thankfully, not overall. Not anymore. : )

@BossySwan 4 жыл бұрын

8:22 your typical Labour client state voter

@andrewf4623 4 жыл бұрын

Jeez, that’s Bristol?! Talk about going downhill....

@smistonian2499 3 жыл бұрын

The poorest areas of Bristol, yes. Lawrence Hill is the poorest council ward in the south west

@chesterdonnelly1212 3 жыл бұрын

I would potentially vote for a right wing green party.

@NeverRubARhubarb 3 жыл бұрын

Um . . .

@dasreich5126 4 жыл бұрын

Come to England from all over the world and get free things.

@NeverRubARhubarb 3 жыл бұрын

That's what England did to the world for 3 centuries, so, what goes around comes around, yeah?

@rehnafayaz4984 7 жыл бұрын

White people are extremely nice to you if your mother is white. It's like oh your one of us.

@OakleyANDSittingBull Жыл бұрын

@Rehna Fayard, Only seemingly. Only in public or if they need something from you, are scamming, overtly coercively abusing,profiting off of you, have something over you... The standard caucasoid supremacist delusional belief (and expectancy) in superiority.