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🗓️ 7 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Now, the Green Party, last general election, they went from one MP to four MPs. |
0:05.3 | Even more interestingly, some might argue, they came second behind Labour in 39 constituencies, |
0:13.3 | which in theory means they've got a pretty solid springboard to win a load more MPs. |
0:17.8 | And each year, they've won more and more councillors. They just did at the |
0:21.1 | last local elections. However, a lot of people would argue they haven't really cut through. |
0:26.5 | That since the general election, the polling stagnated, Nigel Farage, I'm afraid to say, |
0:32.7 | is offering cut-through messaging. He does have a synthetic media on his side. That is an advantage. |
0:37.7 | But nonetheless, the odds are what they are. And the Green Party is not offering a decent alternative |
0:44.6 | to a disastrous Labour Party, which has really pissed off most of the country at this point. |
0:50.4 | With that in mind, Zach Polanski, the current deputy leader of the Green Party of England |
0:54.6 | is now standing to be leader. |
0:57.4 | And he's a lot of people arguing, offering an answer to the sorts of problems, I suppose, |
1:03.7 | that the Green Party currently faces. |
1:06.1 | Is he the answer? |
1:07.1 | Zach, we're going to find out. |
1:08.3 | How are you doing? |
1:09.5 | Good. |
1:09.9 | Thanks so much having me on. |
1:10.8 | How are you doing? Very well. Very well. Feeling maybe a bit more optimistic. We'll find out. |
1:15.9 | We'll see. I just want to start. Like, what, why are you? What are you going to offer that is |
1:22.3 | different as an approach to the Green Party's existing approach, which a lot of people think |
1:26.3 | hasn't really cut it, frankly. |
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