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Oh God, What Now?

Greens co-leader Carla Denyer full interview – “We’re here to get Greens elected and get stuff done”

Oh God, What Now?

Podmasters

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Greens pulled off an all-time best performance in the 2024 General Election, doubling their vote share to a historic high of 6.4% and winning four MPs. But can they handle the transition from outsiders to effective Parliamentary party? How do they square the need to remake Britain as a low-carbon economy and the traditional Green suspicion of development? And can they peel away disillusioned left voters from Labour? Co-leader Carla Denyer talks to Andrew Harrison about another green world.     • “Rachel Reeves’ line that ‘there is no money’ is pretty misleading… This is one of the richest economies in the world.”  • “There are policies everyone agrees on… but only the Greens are offering them.”      Support us on Patreon to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more.     Presented by Andrew Harrison. Produced by Jade Bailey. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.    www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today's guest is Carl Odeneer. Today's guest is Carl Odeneer.

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She's been co-leader of the Green Party since 2021 and since this year's election

0:45.5

MP for Bristol Central. She studied mechanical engineering at St. Chad College Durham and worked for

0:50.7

a wind energy consultant in Bristol before moving into politics.

0:54.4

She became a Green Councillor in 2015 and joint leader of the party with Adrian Ramsey in 2021.

1:00.1

In her made and common speech in July, she made it very clear that the Greens won't be straightforward

1:05.1

cheerleaders for the new government, but will push them to move faster on climate issues.

1:09.3

Caledania, welcome to Oh God what now and congratulations on entering Parliament.

1:13.2

Thank you. Are you enjoying it so far? Yes, although it's very intense, there's so much to do.

1:18.4

It's kind of a strange system in this country in that you get elected as an MP and you have to be doing the job immediately,

1:24.1

unlike in the European Parliament or in the US where newly elected members have some time to get

1:30.8

their office set up.

1:31.8

So you're having to simultaneously make

1:33.7

speeches in Parliament hire your staff do all the training all at once. You don't

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