Hello and welcome to not another one, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomery and Ian Martin.

Thank you very much for tuning in to our weekend discussion, where we thought

we would look at the Green Party, because polls suggest the Green Party have in a period where

the main party's got no bounce from the party conferences, the Greens have a new leader,

and it appears they have got quite a significant bounce in the opinion polls, to the point that some polls have put them ahead of the Lib Dems and the other so-called smaller parties. And we still await the formal appearance of the Corbyn Party too. So what's going on? There's been this huge focus

on reform and the right, but the left too is stirring. Now, I want to explore this in a variety

of different ways. First of all, I want to explore this theme, then we'll look at the

impact on the Labour government. It seems to me that since the 2017 election, we have had

evidence galore that there is appetite for left politics as well as reform politics. Corbyn then in that election

in a very difficult context. Theresa May was on honeymoon and she called that election. Got 40% of the vote,

much higher than Kirstama. And then the election was sort of ignored because all the pundits had

got it wrong, they thought

Labour would be slaughtered. But I sense there is this appetite that this mood for change is so

deep in Britain. It's going to manifest itself in many ways, including leftwards, and that

these opinion polls might not be kind of aberrations.

Tim, as someone who has joined Reform and moved, in inverted commas, rightwards,

although Reform is pitching leftwards in some respects.

Do you agree that this mood is not just for reform, but if you look in Wales, it's

like Cunary as well as reform.

Something very deep is happening to the electorate that the two bigger parties are struggling

to pick up.

Yeah, I'd say, Steve, it's not just about, not just rightwards. I'd say it was not

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