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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: Brokenomics | The Green Party’s Manifesto - Costed

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Dan decides to cost out the Green Party's last manifesto (before they got far more insane) and calculate what it would do to the UK deficit.

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0:00.0

Well, hello and welcome to Broconomics.

0:26.0

Now, as you may be aware, I've been doing this series of Karl,

0:29.7

where we look at polls and analyze current political trends and all that sort of stuff.

0:34.5

And it has come to my attention that actually it's not completely

0:39.9

fanciful that the Green Party may actually win the next election. They have been surging

0:45.3

under the leadership of Zach Polanski. I mean, they had a, they had a presence before.

0:53.2

It wasn't that, but they had a decent presence anyway for a secondary or tertiary party or whatever they are.

1:00.6

But yeah, they're absolutely surging.

1:02.4

I mean, I saw a poll this morning that said amongst the Uxbridge types,

1:07.3

you know, the Oxford and Cambridge people.

1:10.0

You know, apparently these people are going to be the elite

1:12.7

British society in a few years when they all graduate.

1:16.7

They are 50% going to vote green.

1:20.3

50% of the students that are two elite universities are going to be voting green.

1:27.1

And actually, that's lower than their age cohort as a whole. universities are going to be voting green.

1:27.5

And actually that's lower than their age cohort as a whole.

1:32.6

Amongst the young people, Greens utterly dominate.

1:36.0

So it behooves me to try and take them seriously.

1:40.6

And on that basis, I've decided to dig out their manifesto and what do we cost it?

1:45.5

Find out how much it's going to cost to have a green government.

1:50.7

Now, I've skimmed through this before and put a few notes together.

1:56.4

And I'm afraid to say, I don't want to give any spoilers, but it's a tiny bit expensive.

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