Agreed. More people from proper jobs and fewer career politicians, lobbyists and shadowy think tank wonks.

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Perhaps that’s why your getting “on” love, GREEN HEART😂🤣😂🤣

It's a bit late for that now

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I'm sure this was deliberate to show that their arguments stand up against scrutiny

Even though I am passionate about voting Green I think that is the right thing to do. I can't stand softball interviews even when I support the candidate.

​@@archvaldoryep. I loathe cheesy gotcha questions, but other than those, a potential parlimentary representative should be able to tackle serious questions - doubly so if they want my vote!

she's a remoaner though and wants to reverse brexit, so has instantly lost most of the electorate and it will cost them their only seat. She'll be gone the day after the election.

I’ve seen her In the tv programmes for the election. She’s very impressive: far more than any of the main parties. I hope she succeed.

@@juliewake4585 agreed, I had no idea who she was and thought of the green party as just a generic "hippy protest party" till a few months ago..I'm really glad I started to pay attention to them.

@@SomethingAwfully They are. They've done nothing for Brighton. It has the 2nd worse recycling rate in the country, the highest cost of living relative to earnings int the country INCLUDING London, and in the mean time they are protesting against nuclear power plants to support the transition to fully renewable. Oh, and they object to solar farms on fields that could be used to grow crops, want to increase the size of the green belt, and again don't want houses built in fields where crops could be grown. How are they any different to the Tories?

@@RGBmode funnily enough I had this exact debate with my local green about nuclear energy and he agreed with me and you on the subject. The green party candidates don't have to tow the entire party line and are happy for their own representatives (as stated in this video that you clearly haven't watched) that they allow that. So it's perfectly possible with enough support that they would change their stance on it. I also suggest not believing all the NIMBY crap you read without researching yourself. I get it's easy to have an opinion based on headlines and sound bites but if you strongly want to protest and speak out about something you really should make sure that you're well informed with the facts first..

Same I’ve voted green already

Yes me too. I’ve been doing that since Ed Miliband was Labour Party leader to try to send a message in my own small way to persuade other parties’ politicians that we need to focus on what matters.

The greens not getting any seats should send a powerful message to you.. Don't waste your vote.

The more people vote for them the more others see them as a viable option, lets do this!

@@MarKeMu125 The trouble is, they're not a viable option. Their economic policy is almost identical to Truss's.

Hopefully they have to call that election early though

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I despair at that thought.

inevitable - I appreciate the pessimism, but let's just see shall we lol

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Especially when you compare with Farage and Reform. How many councillors do they have? How many MPs? Their growing support is a direct result of, the often uncritical, saturation coverage they receive. Imaging the Greens received comparable coverage. They would take scores of seats.

I'm sick of seeing Farage.

@@AlanWarrenBelfastArchitect imagine if we had proportional representation instead of FPTP? The amount of people I speak to who are voting Labour for tactical reasons, who would vote Green if they felt it would count, is unreal.

@@triggerking135 And because people continue to vote tactically, there is no incentive for any large political party to introduce PR. In most elections, tactical voting only makes sense in about 100 -150 marginals. In this election the Tories are going to lose as their support is down to around 20% Having Labour win with a 200 majority isn't good for democracy. Except in marginals, people should vote with their heart. Vote for a good Independent, Green or whatever.

Also no method to recall MPs when they fail and no method to hold them to their word once elected.

Owen Jones is being supressed 😂

Agreed. My only concern though is if we did ever get PR, we risk a growth in the crazier Far right and far left! But at least those people would then feel represented however much the more moderate of us struggle to understand them.

@@peterk4626 exactly. As 'crazy' as the extremes may be, at least people would feel represented. And if you look at the PR systems we could use, and apply them to previous elections, there would have always been a liberal, centrist majority. And the fringe options would balance/cancel each other out.

Oh I agree... if only we had Prop Rep... we'd have a proper patriotic party at the helm... Reform

It's a great choice for staying poor.

@@catalyst2155 That's the funniest comment I've seen in a while. The tories have made us rich?

@@catalyst2155 tories froze personal allowance, so how is it go for you? poor much ?

I wish they would interview politicians on the center and right too though. They seem to only talk to people on the Corbynite Left and it becomes an echo chamber.

@@liamcragin They do seem to try.

@@liamcraginthe closest they get is Ava with reform. I get the impression Joe would love to but don’t get the chance.

Actual have interviews?

​@@liamcraginThe right won't give them the time because it will never benefit them. Joe's target audience don't vote right and won't be persuaded to vote right and Joe will be very critical of a right wing politician to the point that they can only lose votes by appearing.

I read something someone wrote on Reddit the other day that I really liked. I probably won't remember it word for word, but it'll be pretty close: Political parties aren't taxies, expected to take you from exactly where you already are to precisely where you need to be; they're all of them buses. You might need to put in just a little effort to approach them, and they might not take you fully 100% of the distnace that you want to go, but there's still one that will suit you way more than all the rest, and it's still way better to take that one than to sit at home and go nowhere. For me, the Greens have at times been pretty much a taxi. These days, they're still, at least, by far the best bus for me to hop onto. And as a campaigner for them of around 5 years now, I'm seeing more and more of the public agreeing.

so your actually voting for labour then?? a green vote is a vote for labour 🤣🤣

Empty homes exist in every society, the UK has less empty homes than pretty much any other comparable economy. They also don't exist in the places we need them to. What are we going to do, tell a londoner he has to stop doing his job to move to the north because there's an "empty home" there. build. more.houses.

​@@buzzlopavich Why not both and the other things Carla mentioned?

@@LimeyRedneck Because homes are empty for all sorts of reasons, you can't have complete occupancy, which means you always going to have spare houses - that is a good thing. The greens continuously block infrastructure and housing, including photovoltaics, because at heart they are not a green party - but a NIMBY one.

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Bringing back Squatters Rights is what would most rapidly resolve this part of the problem, it's why those rights existed in the first place. Despite the (non-dom tax-exile billionaire) Daily Mail's campaign it was an essential Social Good through recent centuries.

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Throwing away your vote

I want to as well but vote tactically…check out carol vorderman

​@@josephkolodziejski6882 What's throwing away your vote is voting for Tory Lite...

Then you're insane.

That's the way I see it, too. A key problem for me, being Starmer's approach to the Gaza conflict, too.

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That's the situation.

Personally, Green's are not a viable choice either, especially with their anti-nuclear policies. If they ust so happened to get into power our energy bills would be sky high

I'm progressive and centre-left and I'm going to be sticking with Labour. I've supported the party since joining via a trade union at 18 and I don't see any reason to stop now. I'm pushing 40 and would like another Labour government before WW3, if possible. We tried the student politics of the green party under Corbyn and we didn't win any elections. I voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader both times because I too believed it could work, but it didn't. The opposition to the far-left that came with him was too much for the country and, honestly, with the Ukraine war, thank god Corbyn wasn't Prime Minister at the time, or we'd have another Chamberlain on our hands, appeasing an aggressive dictator.

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I feel the same, although i feel obliged to vote tactically for Labour under FPTP , even though for half my life i have wished for a labour government. I dont want to vote in a Red Tory.

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Have you actually read the Labour manifesto? Doesn't seem to me you have, if you don't think Starmer is a socialist.

Where I live, we can't even get a Green candidate elected to the local council or to the Wales Senedd in the regional vote. The Welsh elections used to use the additional member system of voting. Because of the D'Hondt system Labour was a wasted vote in the regional vote in South Wales East, South Wales Central, and South Wales West as they won 6 to 8 seats in the region on the constituency vote. So when they win all 8 constiuency seats in the region on the first vote, the votes for them in the second vote are divided by 9.

Their anti nuclear and GMO policy are reality?

That’s ironic, I’m doing the opposite! I support the people of Gaza but I do not want that conflict to be a priority of any UK political party, as the flyer for the Greens that came through my door said it was for them. The UK is neither a plucky little underdog nor is it a great power anymore. It’s is a middling country which is teetering on the edge of economic collapse. Thanks to austerity and Brexshit. So support Gaza all you want in your private life, I do. But right now there are many many issues more urgent to the UK. Including Ukraine. No matter what Israel does in Gaza, it is not going to affect the UK. But the genocide in Ukraine has a direct effect on the rules based order and world peace. And the UK can make noises about Gaza all it likes, it has no power in the area and has lost what moral authority it had before Johnson, Truss and Sunak made the country a laughing stock or in the best case, an object of pity.

@@julianmorrisco the UK supplies israel with weapons...

​@julianmorrisco so no actual principles then.

If it's anything like around Brighton, not a chance. I live right on the border of Kemptown, 3 roads over and is be in Brighton pavilion. And yet i haven't received a single green leaflet and all of my texts as a green party member are to support Sian berry. Nothing about my green candidate or the one in hove. It's really disappointing. Just seen extremely close polling between Tories and greens in use of wight east, but it's not a target seat. The greens are great but their ambition this election is sorely lacking.

@@outofideas42 I live in Broughton Pavilion. We've had leaflets, and last week we had two door knockers asking who I am voting for. I explained to them that having voted for green for over a decade, this time we're switching to Labour due to the Green Party's agenda of wanting to re-join the EU. That's antidemocratic and it has cost the greens their only seat. They will be unlikely to ever re-enter British politics again.

​@@RGBmode it's the year 3000 and what remains of the UK celebrates Brexit Day. From your phone screen the disembodied head of Nigel Farage barks 'No Deal is Better than a Bad Deal' and '52% was an overwhelming majority' on a loop as you wait for your Fray Bentos to heat up. A chill overtakes you as the night draws near.

@@RGBmodesurely leaving the EU was undemocratic then, given we voted to join it all those years ago? In any case, having that position clearly doesn’t seem to be complete electoral oblivion - the Lib Dems also support that, and there’s actually a possibility of them ending up being the 2nd biggest party after the next election.

I live in the constituency bristol north west and I'll definetely will be voting green

No thanks.

Is that hard though ? Richard Tice is rather a pillock isn't he ?

She doesn’t

*Climate Denier and her kids, Housing Denier and I forget the other one! 😅 *EDIT* Vaccine Denier

v. disappointed to hear no questions about her children

​@@LimeyRedneck Vaccine

@@LimeyRedneckvaccine denier

@@harvtheworkload this is such a weird thing to say

But Thatcher wasn't letting in 750,000 people per year. The demand wasn't as high as it is now.

Angela spun my head with that position. It was like the leading candidate in a job competition adding, "hobbies include arson."

If they have a successful term, I'd be very surprised if Labour didn't include joining the single market or customs union in their 2029 manifesto.

They did nothing of the sort, they ruled it out of this coming parliament.

"They didn’t need to say anything" - I'd rather they were honest than played games for votes. One of the big reasons the country is on its knees now is because we've had far too many politicians who do the latter. Democracy functions at its best when the public actually know what they're voting for.

We don’t have a case to just immediately rejoin the single market. Especially considering it’s only this year when Brexit checks are being fully implemented. Under our current import standards it will be years of aligning with the trade block regulations before it’s even considered.

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To be fair the same money could have been used on local bus connections throughout the country and had much more benefit and come in on budget and time

greens have been campaigning internally and so they dropped their opposition to HS2 in the most recent manifesto. obviously I want them to support it, but that kinda thing (and the opposition to nuclear) are things that we can and will push out of the manifesto over time, turns out internal party democracy is cool like that

@@itsbenbitch14 That’s good. Although I don’t like the opposition to nuclear it is pretty much universal in green parties and the whole movement pretty much started because of it. That’s probably gonna take a long time.

@@matsui90 The whole “we should spend the money on another good thing” supposes that we need to keep the same level of investment in infrastructure as the Tory government. And while Labour doesn’t really intend to spend more, the Greens would surely want to increase the level of investment in green transportation. So that you wouldn’t need to cut the countries biggest investment in public transportation to do a different investment. Also if you really need to cut something why not cut spending on car infrastructure and highways instead? Also HS2 will have a huge benefit for local and regional transit, moving high speed trains off the West Coast Main Line frees up lots of capacity for local trains and freight on the line enabling much better local train services for the area around Manchester, and the West Midlands. This is the main reason that HS2 is being built, not to create quick travel times.

I was pissed off too but this is what the MSM will do to the Greens so I guess it's good?

Actually is the best party if you want to become poorer.

​@@catalyst2155 clearly everyone gets a lot wealthier when the government spends less. oh hold on...

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Were you sarcastic?

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I don't think they'd want that bringing their electoral chances down tbh - you said it yourself, 'fan base'

Why?

@@MurphyOCP-001 Their manifesto is solid and they're not in this game to further their own careers.

@@juffjaff If by solid you mean more taxation on the wealthy in the context that we're living under the highest tax burden in 70 years then this is a solid way to have working people's taxes increased. Too bad you don't see it.

@@catalyst2155 sorry mate, walk me through that again?

@@catalyst2155 I fail to see, in the interview or their manifesto, where this alleged tax increase for working people is stated. You do realise their tax reform policies won't impact the vast majority of people, right?

Have a look at his/her voting record?

@@user-nx6ji9tk8i He doesn't have one. I live in a Tory safe seat which has been Tory for over a hundred years and will continue to be Tory after next week.

As far as Socialism on steroids goes, this is by far the best manifesto.

​@@catalyst2155define: "socialism", particularly the "on steroids" variant.

@@catalyst2155 But they often say they support a mixed economy, would rely on the private sector, and want to support the petit bourgeois (or small business owners). They're not particularly socialist economically, they just want to cull excess, promote certain sectors, and become sustainable. Heavy tax on the upper end of the asset owning class and high spending in key sectors.

@@alanhat5252 The Green party is the definition. Neo-marxist sex-obsessed lunatics.

​@@samuelmelton8353 There lies the issue. The Greens want to tax the middle and upper earners more given that the tax burden is the highest it's been in 70 years to pay for all the things they want. Rich businesses have already had corporation tax increase on them and also Capital Gains Tax which they use as a means of building wealth. What is never understood by the folks of "tax the rich" is that the costs of high taxation on big corporations are offset onto the consumers which are ordinary working class. Greens wants to tax assets over £10m that means supermarkets such as Tesco's, Sainsbury's and M&S etc and your cheap clothing brands such as Primark are going to get taxed more. So when you walk into these stores to buy items expect goods & services inflation to go up because they have to reach net margins that make sense for the business to keep operating in the same jurisdiction. If these businesses start to fail because consumers don't have enough money in their pockets to buy enough of their products at higher prices then the government has now lost even the paycheck they were getting before from these businesses and there's no growth. Also, there will be other businesses with those level of assets who will have to close down and move their business outside of the UK. Wealth leaving the country and government's pockets means they have to raise taxes MORE to compensate for the loss. The government has loans they took from BoE and at current high interest rates because of overspending as they usually do need to pay that money back, and so the cycle of high taxation continues until you're left with a country where operating privately owned businesses in the UK has no advantage due to ridiculous tax-laws so in essence you have no free-market capitalism. Only government who are responsible for producing goods and services and we already know what bad of a job they've managed to do with our healthcare as is which is a whole different debate. In Summary regarding the Green's manifesto, it sounds all nice on paper however their funding heavily requires the wealth of the rich. The UK has lost 16,500 millionaires between 2017-2023 and it is estimated we will lose almost 60% of that figure just this year alone (Source: Business Standard - Millionaires on the move: Where are the world's rich migrating to in 2024?) and with the lack of rich people and businesses around, our taxes go high. About why I said Green's manifesto is full-blown Socialism? Because in full-blown Socialism there's no such thing as free-market Capitalism and Green Parties policies are about destroying wealth from the rich which entails destroying the wealth of the poor and middle-class as I've explained previously. Greens manifesto summed up is we want to tax you harder than the uniparty, wipe out the upper and middle class and destroy the poor out of existance as the government fulfil the needs of society which would otherwise have been managed by much of free-market capitalism. This manifesto is by far the worst one I've read and does nothing to solve issues the working class currently face, if anything add more financial ruin into their lives as if it's not worse as is.

Same here

I don't understand why he's standing as Independent. He fits right in with the Greens, particularly with their new wealth tax policies.

@@triggerking135 Not just Corbyn but Faiza Shaheen, Dawn Butler, Leanne Mohammad. Heck, surely Zarah Sultana, Apsana Begum, Bell Ribeiro-Addy and their like must be feeling like their Labour party is utterly unrecognisable now.

He was, twice. Still lost.

@@matthewharry677 I know, cos of the older generations being stuck in their ways

Good idea, vote green and hand the keys back to the Tories. No shit Sherlock😢

Vote for whoever’s likely to win who isn’t a Tory or Reform candidate. Then spend the next 5 years encouraging Green, hope they get more council seats, maybe even parliamentary seats. Join in on left-wing movements, hope the Greens get more exposure. Push the Overton Window leftwards. Wait for the next general election when it’ll be Greens and Lib Dems pushing against Labour, weakened Tories, and Reform (or whatever the next racist party is called). Voting for any party other than the two major players is a wasted vote unless you’re lucky enough to be in a constituency where the Tories aren’t really in the running anymore.

@@brianferguson7840 Not going to happen.

@@brianferguson7840 The tories will lose anyway and labour are no better. vote green.

​@@brianferguson7840the Tories are further behind than they've EVER been. They won't win with more people voting Green

If Brexit was about "success" then you never understood what it was to begin with.

Yes. The 150k council housing is over and above what's already built by the private sector.

Fact Check: Carla Denyer said Labour "whip on every issue." This is false. Of the 148 votes in the last parliament, Labour only whipped on 142 of them. We rate this claim untrue.

@@RaRa-eu9mw so just the ones that matter then..?

​@@RaRa-eu9mwonly 142 😂

Her daughter has a climate?

which is?

And her son, Housing

​@@sciencefliestothemoon2305there was a joke on the podcast about her surname being pronounced "denier."

@@IllusionistBeatsOfficial Why do I get the feeling I have to lock that up now

Hey yolanda diaz

lol nice try TorybotGPT

@@RGBmode as if replacing tory with diet tory will actually solve anything

You're going to have to fight the TERFs in the Green Party first

@@lewis9159 Pretending that Labour are Tories won't get you anything either. It's a child's argument.

She is co-leader

I bet you drive an ICE car and fill your face with animal products.

You should vote for who you agree with. Tactical voting is a con

@@jameshodgkins9586 People's primary concern in this election is removing the Tories from British politics. Tactical voting is not only the correct method, it's now what everyone in the country under 70 is doing. So, you're either under 70, or you're of such a low IQ that you probably ought consider not voting in cease you hurt yourself on the walk to and from the polling station

@@jameshodgkins9586 except it isnt.

Send a message to Labour with increased overall Green share of the vote, and help move the Overton window in politics.

By default.

@@mr.thegreat557 the Tories were unpopular whilst Corbyn was in charge so why didn't he win a historic victory?

@@joefortey4 who said they were unpopular?

@@mr.thegreat557 polling at time 😉👍

@@joefortey4 polling for Tory’s was quite high, it actually pushed Farage to withdraw candidates. Recent Labour wins in by-elections show the Labour vote share hasn’t increased at all, in some cases it’s actually dropped.

No it's blatant lying

@@keithparker1346 You'd have to wait until they get into power. They've had 14 years to alter their manifesto. It's only lying if they U-turn once in power.