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The Owen Jones Podcast

Could Labour Lose This - To The Green Party? - The Battle For Bristol Central

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Labour is set to win July election by a landslide victory, with the Tories facing obliteration. But polling suggests the Greens could take Bristol Central from the Labour party. Is that an outlier - or a foreshadow of what is to come?

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0:00.0

So, germannax in 2024, I know, I'm as excited as you are. are now if you know like spoilers look away because

0:15.6

labor going to win this by a landslide and the toys are going to get

0:18.8

absolutely battered but I think what labor going to keep telling people is,

0:22.6

ooh, if you don't write for us,

0:24.0

the stories are going to get in.

0:25.4

Now, in a thing like Bristol Central,

0:27.6

that's definitely not true, it's not true anywhere.

0:30.1

But it's even less true here,

0:31.8

because the fight here is between the Labour Party and the Greens.

0:35.2

The Tories are nowhere here. And the Greens have a decent chance of actually winning this seat.

0:39.2

You see, in the local elections, the Greens became the biggest party of Bristol Council.

0:45.0

They won an extra 10 seats, but they won every single seat in Bristol Central.

0:49.0

So they think, with their co-leader Carl of Deny standing here that they could defeat

0:54.2

than a debonet now she's a labor shadow cabinet minister so that's quite a big scalp

0:57.5

so I want to meet Carl of Deny yeah I want to meet voters I want to chat to them see what

1:00.9

they think I want to try and speak to the Labour team and perform a lifelong Labour voter so you know

1:06.0

hopefully they'll still talk to me and I want to see is this the red seat which could

1:11.5

turn green even during a labour landslide.

1:15.7

How you think about the election?

1:17.3

A little bit excited.

1:20.4

Oh, excited.

1:21.6

Why you excited? Just because I think it's time for a change, so.

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