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  • @katiestolealltheunicorns9309
    @katiestolealltheunicorns9309 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    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
      @jamesduffy7549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @TheDreadfulCurtain
    @TheDreadfulCurtain 9 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    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.

  • @MatthewRichardson1
    @MatthewRichardson1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I might join as the token black guy.

    • @stephenverchinski409
      @stephenverchinski409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @MrDanielfff777
      @MrDanielfff777 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephenverchinski409 huh

    • @OakleyANDSittingBull
      @OakleyANDSittingBull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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.

  • @PsychosisFire
    @PsychosisFire 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    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
      @stephenverchinski409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @rorylamond3640
      @rorylamond3640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @smistonian2499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @jamesduffy7549
      @jamesduffy7549 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @OakleyANDSittingBull
      @OakleyANDSittingBull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @tomwoodburn97
    @tomwoodburn97 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @blinkinyourarea244
    @blinkinyourarea244 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @MissLydiePidie
    @MissLydiePidie 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

  • @kaze987
    @kaze987 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What's an election? My goodness

  • @beltingtokra
    @beltingtokra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @antonystaples3834
    @antonystaples3834 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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?

  • @forevertogether3733
    @forevertogether3733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @AMorandir
    @AMorandir ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @jonclark1113
    @jonclark1113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @sim6699
    @sim6699 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @nationharris
    @nationharris 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @Cashback13
      @Cashback13 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @Cashback13 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know who you are. :-)

    • @Cashback13
      @Cashback13 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look forward to seeing if you can figure out how.

  • @jonclark1113
    @jonclark1113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Marenqo
    @Marenqo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    middle-class liberals...

    • @NeverRubARhubarb
      @NeverRubARhubarb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You say that like it's a bad thing.

    • @OakleyANDSittingBull
      @OakleyANDSittingBull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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. : )

  • @moussaouiahmed
    @moussaouiahmed 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    oui

  • @loren-sh4xq
    @loren-sh4xq 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Are these still a party,

    • @Cwst29
      @Cwst29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes. A major international force.

    • @Britishdarnlib
      @Britishdarnlib ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:22 your typical Labour client state voter

  • @danspataru8273
    @danspataru8273 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the street and weather is just so deplorable..

  • @andrewf4623
    @andrewf4623 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @smistonian2499
      @smistonian2499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @dasreich5126
    @dasreich5126 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @NeverRubARhubarb
      @NeverRubARhubarb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @rehnafayaz4984
    @rehnafayaz4984 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @OakleyANDSittingBull
      @OakleyANDSittingBull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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.

  • @chesterdonnelly1212
    @chesterdonnelly1212 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would potentially vote for a right wing green party.

  • @travellingshoes5241
    @travellingshoes5241 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    England is ruined.