If you think the Greens are a party worth voting for, you might want to take a good look at Scotland, and see the disaster that country has become.

Definitely. I live in a safe labour area. My initial idea was to completely spoil my ballot paper My protest vote will be to vote for the greens.

​@@waqasahmed939 Even if someone is a left-wing Labour member, ESPECIALLY in safe Labour seats, it's always a good idea to vote for a left-wing party as a protest than to spoil the ballot. Yes, Labour will still win, but when a good portion of their votes are going to left wing parties, like the Greens, that's more likely to make Starmer want to change his policy positions than voting for Labour would... voting for Labour would just make him less likely to change his mind. The Tories have no realistic chance of winning the next election (unless something monumental happens in a year). The way things are going, Starmer will win an overwhelming majority. Ideally, he'd win a minority and would have to strike a deal with a progressive party to form a coalition government, with PR as a concrete condition for him becoming Prime Minister.

@@waqasahmed939 too bad you seeing it as a protest vote. If you follow what they are about and read their policies etc., to me it is the only sane choice...always has been. You will not see the other parties change their ways soon...too entrenched like most people unfortunately.

me too.

The Tories will be over the moon..

@@youtubing9762 absolute bollocks.

@@davidhodgson3901 the Tories won’t give a toss because I live in the safest of the safe labour seats so my vote is totally worthless. I could post a poo through the ballot box hole and it would be as consequential

I would love to see the RMT affiliate to the Greens!

Natural connection

Mick Lynch is a union representative who has an active hand in current, ongoing strikes. If he doesn't stay politically impartial and states he supports a party, any party, the media and political class will use it to crucify him.

​@@michaelrchWhy, because you want their money? Get lost

@@BobCratchit-773 No. Because it would send a message to Labour and voters that Labour are no longer the home for unionists and socialists. Labour is a neoliberal capitalist party.

Same. Labour are only behind the tories by a few votes where I am but I will not vote for them this time. A weaker Labour is far more likely to seek a coalition and therefore agree to PR so it's still a win having a scum tory MP.

Haven't you been cured of the disease that voting somehow changes things ! On the morning of the election defeat of Jeremy Corbyn in 2019, I was listening to BBC radio 5 live and a young woman called in who had just returned from Israel doing her military service (she had dual nationality) thanking the British people for rejecting Jeremy Corbyn ! You can draw any conclusions you want from that. I know what conclusions I have drawn but, if I told you, no doubt someone would report me for posting an anti semitic comment !

Hope you’re just a Tory bot. Otherwise we’re screwed.

@@SigmundJaehn I'm not a tory bot, I do however live in a labor stronghold so my vote will change nothing, it will however show how unhappy I am with starmer in charge of the party as he is just tory lite. He's offering nothing where as greens are actually putting forward sensible ideas and offering change

Totally agree with you. I first met Zac when we were both members of the LibDems, which we both left as a result of the party failing to ‘walk the talk’. Zac is a tremendous bonus to London politics, and if I still lived there, I would certainly vote for him.

@Chevindash. Are you happy with his former role as a"hypnotherapist" where he promoted "unconscious" breast enlargement? He actually promoted his services in The Sun. If that is not mysogeny then I don't know what is?

So you are both expecting your privileged middle class lifestyles to be forgotten...? As though you both weren't members of a pro capitalist party like the Lib Dems. Not only that, but in the worst possible time, during AUSTERITY... how can he say he cares about the working class. Seems like supporting PR and being in a party that fucked the poor over for decades to come goes hand in hand...not caring about the working class is a background condition to supporting careerism opportunities which PR might make accessible for you. As Aaron noted in the video too... it's the most middle class issue anyone could devote themselves to. People are starving. But you both thought PR was worth supporting a party that was making that poverty worse in the mean time? Get out of here. Privileged enough to just focus on PR because neither of you have been hungry a day of your life I imagine. Doubt either of you would stand with us socialists at the end of the day.

​@@BobCratchit-773you seem bitter and jealous.

There's the Scottish Socialist Party in Scotland as well.

"Especially since it's the only real left wing party" They aren't though, they're just NIMBYs who put on a nice environmentalist facade.

Bit of a mixed bag there. Do you understand the maths behind FPTP?

Whilst I'd prefer that the greens got into in power, I'll be voting for labour, since I don't want my vote to do anything to help the Tories.

@@monkeymox2544 Have you watched the interview? You clearly didn't learn anything if you did.

@@samdegoeij6576 Yes, I have watched the interview. It doesn't impact the fact that I have to be pragmatic.

@@davidhodgson3901 Probably not fully, I'm Dutch and we have a PR-system as is reffered to in the interview it has its flawes but it's better than what I understand of how your system functions. If you feel like explaining go ahead, it only comes to the bettering of the discussion I think.

Welcome!

Yes me too!

​@@charlottefountaine7910 yeah, and me 😂

If you're considering it please look up our policies online , I'm not sure what nation of the UK you're in but we have the Green Party of England and Wales, the Scottish Green Party and there's a separate Green Party in Northern Ireland, I'm in the Green Party of England and Wales, I know that Greens can sometimes be portrayed as a party for the middle class , however I grew up on a council estate, went to Comprehensive school followed by technical college the Green Party welcomes people from all social backgrounds

i ended my labour membership recently and am seriously embarrassed just thinking i was in the LP. Will 100% vote Green P.

Update to this. I left my Labour CLP and joined the Green Party and will be looking to support them locally in the run up to the election etc 💚

Congratulations and welcome to the Green Party Samuel

@@samuelhigman3778 Welcome! 💚 Hope you find yourself politically at home in the Greens! Unlike other parties, all our policies are voted on democratically at conference, NOT decided on the whim of whoever lied well enough to become party leader! The Greens are for progressive and radical policies, hoping to change society to better achieve environmental, economic, and social justice. We care about people and planet. I personally would call us ecosocialist, though some prefer not to use the term "socialist" (mostly due to non-members' preconceived notions of what "socialism" actually is).

But as usual he wasn’t asked follow up questions to circumnavigate the politician speak and get his real views and thoughts.

Ditto.

@@thetragicyouth £200 on bills a GREEN LEVY charge r u rich?

I also disagree with penalising the consumer rather than the producers

I be voting Green next GE

me too

But how do we know he's even telling the truth now? He could become something different again once in power. Probably unlikely to go back to his 10 pledges, but he might make some other hobby horse the main focus of his government.

@@mawkernewek The direction of travel Starmer is taking seems a very predictable and establisment one - to protect the status quo at all times and at all costs. He seems singularly unconcerned with the profoucndly undemocratic legislation being put in place by Braverman, and already forced through Parliament by Patel. Electoral reform is near the bottom of his agenda - he's just not interested. The same can be said of environmental issues. He's said that he would be proud to be thought of as a 'conservative with a small "c"...' Starmer has accused the EU of 'pinching the dinner off our plates' - a phase straight from the Nigel Farage playbook. He has said repeatedly that 'Under NO circumstances will Labour EVER seek for the UK to re-join the EU' and that 'Freedom of Movement is a thing of the past.' Are you expecting Starmer to suddenly change his mind on all these statements, made so emphatically and unambiguously? I'm most certainly not. From my POV he is desperate to be accepted by Rupert Murdoch in order to be able to get into power. But if becoming PM is his only real objective, where are are his motivating principles? I would argue that naked ambition is his guiding principle, NOT a true desire to make the nation a better place for people to live. He seems to have embraced Neoliberal economic policy in its' totallity, in order to become acceptable as a credible member of the establishment. That is NOT a man who can be trusted.

He had a track record of lying before the leadership contest, people voted for him because he was presented as a more electable version of Corbyn but that was always a dubious prospect if you took a quick scan of his career to see what you’re voting for

@@tomb129 Sadly, most of the Labour Party members were not aware of Starmer's mendacious nature before voting for him as leader. Once in power, he and his entourage and advisers (Evans, Akehurst, Reeves, Streeting, Mandelson, etc.) set about either sidelining the left. This has been done by: 1) Overriding preferred local electoral candidates for By-Elections or Council Elections, and instead 'parachuting in' those approved of by Starmer & Co. 2) Expelling prominent left-wing members - such as Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi (founder member of JVL), who had only just been voted onto the NEC - and earlier on Ken Loach. Starmer is being presented to the British electorate as 'Mr Boring, but Mr Clean.' A more accurate description of Starmer would be 'Mr Duplicitous, Mr Ruthless, and Mr Establishment Status Quo.'

@@mawkernewek he is a LIAR not to ever be trusted.

Bluddy Polanski’s Cummins ova ‘eer reacting to the actual environmental crisis, ‘aving actual skills to awaken revolutionary change, making thoughtful annsirs to questions and all…--ripping off Stewart Lee and Asian sun foundation

I'll be voting green for the first time. No way will I be voting Labour again until they represent the people the 99%

Do you realise that only Labour or the Tories can win under FPTP?

Don't worry, Caroline isn't retiring from politics, just stepping down as an MP. She's going to be extremely active on climate and nature issues, and she will continue to be inspirational in the Green Party. As you say, Zack is amazing. I hope he'll decide to stand for election to Parliament in future.

Vegan? so we select leaders based on thier diet do we? Well nice to see people have there priorities sorted out when it comes to identifying good leadership. Idiots.

Have you seen the record of Greens in other countries where they actually get some power? Total sell-outs.

Do it. It doesn't cost too much and they are miles ahead of every other party on policy. They are the only vessel for positive change now.

TBF, you live and learn. He sounds great now.

Don't heat pumps work better in warm weather?

@@eldrago19 I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that "air-to-air" systems generally want warmer weather while "water-to-air" and geothermal can handle cold climates better.

@@eldrago19 Generally, and I truly mean generally. yes. But new air-to-air/water heat pumps work down to about -20 Celsius. water-to-air/water and geothermal works more of less the same no matter the temperature Generally air-to-air/water is the cheaper option (and easier to implement option), but also the one with the purest performance on the long run. The by far cheapest and best preforming option however is insulation

he failed to keep his pledges. He failed to offer an alternative vision. He's failed at those two, which are pretty important for a party leader.

The lobbying money will of change his mind. Starmer comes across as a slinky wanker to me

I wonder if it's to do with Palestine

@@vendysmith4886greens are very strongly pro-palestine. corbyn isn't really as radical as the greens in terms of decentralisation, emancipation of the working class, environment, foreign policy, etc

​@@rhubarb2301bullshit

Probably antisemitism slur.

@@rhubarb2301 in what quantifiable way was JC less radical? He was for all of that, certainly enough to make the establishment sh1t themselves.

Go NATO! One of the biggest polluters on the planet, now backed by the Greens. That might give you a clue what's in store if Greens "win big".

All those issues can be addressed as Aaron pointed out, the Green Party should not be taking this shit away from people

@@XavierJAlexander oh dear.

And hand another victory to the Tories. You Tankies are off your heeds..

@@davidhodgson3901 Insofar as you say, "hand another victory to the Toes," ...very rich in irony, because if Starmer's lot are voted in, it will effectively be a victory for the Tory Party Reserve Team..

Cooperation between far left ideologues & Tory nativist authoritarians, absolutely appalling, guess many of the same voted against the EU because it's a 'capitalist conspiracy' EU; nasty collective narcissism with right wing media support?

If this day comes then we'll definitely add it to bank holidays

That would be so sweet... 🎉