Aaron Bastani Talks To The Green Party In Bristol Central
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- The Green party launched their election campaign in Bristol.
Aaron Bastani went to find out exactly what sets the Greens apart from the Labour Party and to talk to Bristolians about why the Greens have an opportunity for electoral glory in their hometown.
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As a lifelong Labour voter, when I vote green, I’m not betraying Labour; they betrayed me.
Same here. 'Labour' needs to change its name. It's lost its direction and its meaning.
Me too!
I'm with you, your sentiments are 100% mine too.
Labour betrayed themselves, Keir betrayed everything he stands for 🇵🇸
@@CEO786 Bold of you to assume he ever stood for what he claimed to.
The greens deffo deserve a bigger platform, love novara 💚
Hey, it's you again! I remember us spamming "vote Green" on the Sky News live thing and triggering a TERF called Gav lol. The Greens definitely deserve a bigger platform that they're getting everywhere, but sadly the mainstream media seem to be ignoring them.
Worried they focus too much on not being Labour.
They must never lose sight of their core values to satisfy the electorate - especially regarding the environment.
The Green Party and their wanna-be dictator Denyer is an absolutely terrifying idea
@@samuelmelton8353 theyve been good on palestine. Right now not being labour is a good thing
@@sunseeker9581 It's risky - if all those concerned for Gaza and disenfranchised from Labour opt to join Greens because they have a better stance - that might seem fine, but the makeup of the party will change away from its bread and butter aims - environment and nature, and problems in England and Wales, such as housing and public transport, and a wealth tax.
That said, I am glad the Greens have taken a strong stance against war crimes and should be a voice that speaks out against them.
I've never been so tempted to vote Green as I am now.
Do it. Join us. Red is over. Sadly. But it's over.
@@TUO___ I will 💚
Don't do it.
@@DeborahWheelhouse-fd6rsand why on earth not?
As a lifelong Labour voter , I'm switching to worker's party or Green .
Come on Bristol 💚✊🏿
Green , workers , independent, ❤❤❤❤ the big partys are finished
Aah if I'd known Aaron was going to be in Castle Park I'd have gone down to shake his hand! Bristol represent! 💚💚💚
I'm in Bristol South. The way I see it Stamer has chosen to purge people like me from the Labour Party. Greens have my vote.
Starmer did say "if you don't like the changes I am making, you can leave"
One of the few things Starmer has said that I fully agree with!
Good man (or woman?)
Vile Marxists
The way the left speak about being 'purged' is essentially the same as how the right frame being 'cancelled'.
A great protest vote . Are the tories in second place to Labour ?
Labour have lost me these last few months. Thank you for giving the greens some kind of platform.
Preferably a hundred foot platform with no ladders.
The Green have had more MP's that ukip and reform put together but the latter gets more airtime than the Green party on MSM, so I totally agree with your comment.💚
do you want 4 year olds to leave sex?
I'm in Bristol North West and if they chair a candidate here, they absolutely have my vote, Labour can get F****d.
We are fielding everywhere :)
@@APAG Excellent, I just searched and have found my candidate :)
The Greens are also in with a good chance of winning Bristol East-where they won most of the council seats…
@@keithrogers4170They're not even in third place unfortunately.
They 100% have my vote in Cardiff West too.
proud to see Bristol so well represented 💚 there are Green Party placards on most streets here, Free Palestine protests every Saturday at the council house... you can just *feel* that Labour are gonna lose this seat. up the Greens!
Yesss instead of voting for a party that might not go as far as you like on climate, vote for a party that won't form a government and thus potentially let in Tories to protect our own ideological purity, slay queen.
@@tomsapwell5016 the tories have no chance in Bristol, and lets be honest, don't have much chance in the rest of the country either. Stop with the two party system propaganda
@@tomsapwell5016 Idiotic take, the conservatives cannot win in Bristol, nor the nation. Green is the tactical vote here
@@tomsapwell5016 have you seen the polling? both for this seat and nationally greens and labour are in competition against each other or directly with tories - bristol defintiely isnt' a threeway competition. So what you are talking about doesn't make sense
So true novara media would rather stay in opposition forever if it meant staying ideologically pure
I'm in Bristol Central, cant wait to vote for Carla Denyer and the Green party on 4th July 💚💚💚
I live in a safe Labour seat but I'll be voting Green for the stats
Will be voting Green in a GE first time ever in a Labour-Tory marginal. Sick to my stomach of these establishment parties.
Hope you enjoy your Tory MP then .
@@scooby1992there's always one 👏👏
@kingchamed Agree!!
I hope the green party get a load more seats
Starmer rebranding Austerity!
"I got deselected for liking one of your tweets"
Well that says it all doesn't it
It says, have nothing whatsoever to do with Labour. I've been out for two and a half years and never regretted it.
Bastani giving labour the runs😂
@ianmackillop1774 yep, I'm a "floating, occasionally tactical" voter and my fear is the labour wave is so tall this time nothing I can do is going to matter. Green party is most likely to take my vote this time if they stand here, but wish them luck with the 4 MPs target.
@@Mikebloke They're standing everywhere this year !
Yesssss Bristol, make it happen!! We desperately need more progressive voices in parliament and more people rejecting this version of Labour, for the sake of some semblance of democratic choice. Poor Caroline Lucas had to do it on her own for years and she usually sounded like the only sensible person in the room while being generally patronised by the Tories every time she called them out.
Make it happen everywhere.
Greens are not progressive.
They are the most archly conservative Party in Britain.
Make Britain green again 😊
Due to human activity, the UK has lost around half of its biodiversity, based on abundance and species richness, since the Industrial Revolution.
You do know there is 25% more green space in the World and 8% more in the UK since 1999 don't you?
@@stephfoxwell4620 how many are golf courses?
@@ovidiumiinea5462 None.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Since 1999? An oak tree alone takes hundreds of years to reach maturity. England has lost much more woodland than people realise. Even if we have somehow gained 8%, we have lost much more over our history and the state of that green space is *significantly* worse.
25% more green space in the world? Where does this statistic come from? I find that hard to believe considering the population has increased since 1999, deforestation has only continued, and the overall destruction of nature makes restoring green spaces harder.
Labour are losing seats because they can't come out and say inequality and war are bad and public services are good.
If you loved the Tory's you might like us should be Labors slogan. They seem to want Tory voters hope green wins they suck
Hasn't Keir Starmer very recently called Israel's actions abhorrent, said that Ukraine needs to be supported and defended, and pledged to nationalise trains and energy supply in his first term?
I'm just confused as to how that isn't _exactly_ what you're claiming they aren't doing
@@XAVR_ Is abhorrent worse then very concerned? I want to see the tear list of words to say when I am faking interest. I like David Camron more then him they both suck but David feels like he cares about something
Largely because of the media. The British media are the most vile but influential stakeholder in Uk elections. We need media reform and despite all the skepticism of Labour doing anything to that effect, they're far more amenable to it than the tories would be. At least they've got a NEC and it's members to discuss, vote and back ideas of this nature in comparison to how useless tory members are.
The fact barely any percentage of the population is willing to protest for things like electoral reform & media reform is why we're stuck with the status quo.
@@daraghokane4236 ok pal 👍🏻
I'm based in South Bristol and will be voting for Greens as well. I regret not doing it sooner
Bristol City were in the first division in the 1970s. Football existed before the premier league, believe it or not
They had four seasons in top flight
@@Sanjaygupta01 I saw them too at the time. They were in the first division at the same time as my team, Brighton in the late seventies early eighties
I'm voting Green. I'm in a safe Tory seat so likely another wasted vote - but I think this election we must vote in what we believe in.
The Tories then, in other words
Message anyone you know in Bristol and get them to vote green!
We£
I hope she wins it!
If you live there, vote Green to help her win the seat. If you don't, vote Green to add to the total.
Green party for me💚
Thank you, thank you for giving coverage to the Green Party. I am sick and tired of our unrepresentative votjng system and the fake wrestling match that is the two major political parties.
Lose your TV set. It'll work wonders for your mental health.
Greens aren't the answer.
They are a compounding of the problem
Not as beautiful as Bristol, but my home town. Birkenhead. A third Green seat?
Go Jo.
Jo Bird is a good candidate and they could win there. Hope the campaign is going well.
Come on Bristol, let's get a second Green MP into parliament! I'm in Bristol East so can't vote for Carla unfortunately but I'll be voting Green regardless.
Same here, would be great to see similar results to the local elections here!
I hope to see more than Bristol going to green party.
It would be nice if they won seats off the tories and not Labour or the Lib Dems
I voted Corbyn and wanted him to be PM, and Wes Streeting has literally said he doesn't want people like me associated with the Labour Party, which is fine by me. I instructed my union not to allocate my membership fee to Labour. I'll vote for the Greens, perhaps the only left wing party available to the electorate.
Proud of my old hometown....if only London was the same.
Aaron is in the field!! This must be important 💚
I'm voting Green in Stockton West, formerly Stockton South and Matt Vickers seat. The keeping of the 2 child benefit cap is abhorrent as is Labours position on Palestine.
shout out to the man watering his head
Hope you enjoyed being here in my hometown! We certainly are different! My MP, Kerry McCarthy, abstained on the Palestine ceasefire vote along with Thagnam Debbonaire (also an MP here). I’ll be voting Green as things stand.
Me thinks labour are terrified of Aaron Bastani. 😊
Great coverage! 💚
Vote green
A few years ago, I was seriously thinking about going over to the UK to work and I was told to stay the hell away from London and instead look to Bristol and Cardiff as they are considered as the two most progressive cities to live in.
Come on Brizzer!
💚💚💚
Nice people, they gave me hope.
Right to roam - to protect our wild spaces they must be appreciated, and must therefore be seen.
Amazing to see Aaron out asking the questions. Certainly don't see Murdoch out vox popping! Makes me proud to support Novara
Vote Green 💚
Off topic, but I'll be voting Green on Sunday for my MEP Alviina Alametsä 216
Labour has gone to the Right and the People have had it with the rightward direction of politics.
So don't vote Labour. Just another bunch of Tories.
Labour has gone to the right just to make them more electable, should they win that will all change
I expect to hear good sense from leading Green Party figures, but I'm impressed with the political, economic and environmental awareness of the people of Bristol as interviewed here. Wow - what's going on in Bristol? It gives me hope. We really need Carla Denyer in Parliament (and Sian Berry, Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns).
The Greens are the Nimby Kings in my area they've recently opposed the building of affordable housing in replace of a disused garage
Where they are in power locally it isnt always good news . Apparently they were a nightmare in Brighton and the bin men were on strike under their watch .
FYI during the bin strike the Green Party held 19 of the 54 council seats, so could only make decisions with support from other parties. They had 'minority control.
All councils have had their budgets squeezed for years (by the Tory government). So the bin strike was another GMB demand for higher pay.
Obviously when the Conservative councillor Joe Miller proclaimed that "I hate to refer to Maggie Thatcher, but this is a similar situation - you can't negotiate with terrorists."... That didn't help the situation...
Exactly! They also opposed HS2! They’re an unbelievably NIMBY party
@@scooby1992 I believe many of the problems originate with contracts the former Labour administration signed.
I already love Bristol. If they vote Green I will love Bristolians even more!
Good luck Greens. 👍
Lovely to meet you on your Bristol foray Mr Bastani. Keep up the good work.
Makes me want to move there!
It's a great city!
PLEASE MAKE IT OBVIOUS WHICH ARE CLIPS FROM NOVARA LIVE AND WHICH ARE UNIQUE CONTENT. I NEARLY MISSED THIS VIDEO!!!
Sadly I moved out of what is now the Bristol Central constituency, else I'd definitely have voted Green (no chance of them winning in the part of Bristol I'm in now)
Doesn't stop you. It's not just seats, it's the total number of votes cast- a moral victory, which is sometimes just as important.
Moral victory is never anywhere near as important, at all. Just look at '17 & '19...
@@ianmackillop1774 True , but the number of seats matters mostly .
I'm in Bristol Central and my vote for the greens was solidified when I found out that my potential MP used to work in renewable energy and knows that it's David Cameron's policy basically blocking all new onshore wind in England, Wales and N.Ireland that basically killed that world-leading industry within a year. I now work in that industry and have to explain that to everyone outside because so few seem to know.
... that and Starmer is too right wing for me, too autocratic and can't call out a textbook example of genocide, and basically encourages killing civilians. That was so shocking to hear.
And many years ago, in my ignorance, I was nearly a Tory voter.
we're voting Green in North Herefordshire. We're going to send Ellie Chowns to Westminster 🍏🍏🍏
If they are second to the tories I hope they win . It is a pretty safe Tory seat .
@@scooby1992 Yes - think its been tory since 1820 - except when sitting MP Peter Temple Morris defected to Labour, then stood down & current tory was elected in 2001. But Greens locally are gaining strength.
@@blacksusan108 Good luck to them . I hope they manage to beat Bill Wiggin .
I will be voting Reform from now on
Love this reportttting :)
GO GREENS!!! 💚💚💚
Superb video, Novara Media. It makes me want to move to Bristol and it definitely means I'll be voting Green.
I was so sure it would be the SNP that made Labour lose Bristol Central
Thanks
All I have to say about the British Isles: Electoral Reform, Electoral Reform, Electoral Reform. You need to invest in Proportional Representation like we have here in New Zealand (MMP). Worst Past the Post means poor representation in Parliament and not very democratic.
Exactly .
GIVE GREEN A CHANCE THIS ELECTION
As a student graduate in 2001 I left the UK under the Blair mantra of Education Education Education. He restarted fees for Uni. 20 years on in Tokyo its wonderful to see the passsion of the local voters.
Bristol is my fav UK city. The art, music, community and politics are on point ✊
I really hope the Greens have a surge.
I normally vote Labour and will be voting tactically.
But I am worried if Labour have a 150 seat majority it might cause more damage.
In this antiquated two-party system, it's often difficult to hope for real change. Months ago, I came across online voices talking about voting Green should there be a GE. These voices definitely have increased in numbers, there seems to be a real movement, and now I am hoping the Green party has the finances to put candidates forwards in many more seats.
The dude in the background heard labour and had to wash away the filth!
love the greens I hope they grow more in my area! atm its between labour or libdems in my tory area. just waiting for the tactical vote to come through before the 4th
The Green Party should have many more MP's. Such a shame they don't, why do idiots keep voting for the Tories?
FPTP. They have enough supporters in one area several times over to elect loads of MPs and the boundary changes marginally favour the tories .
Apparently Keir Starmer today is saying his number one priority is creating wealth
If Carla Denyer had her way, you’d have zero wealth at all. Only middle class liberals like her, as dictator, can have any money. Or a house. Or actually have the right to eat meat. The list goes on
Good , the more wealth created the more tax can be taken . The greens are anti growth , but without a growing economy where do the taxes come from to fund public services .? You can only tac the rich so much before they leave the country .
Damn, maybe I should move to Bristol.
Does it matter . Without PR Britain isnt a democracy
Exactly . The Greens should have more than one MP to reflect their vote , but it is only concentrated in a few areas .If I lived in Central Suffolk and Ipswich North I would consider voting Green as they won the council there and are probably best placed to take the seat off the tories , but in my seat only Labour has a chance to beat the tories so that is where my vote is going and we have a great candidate .At the last election the Green vote in my neighbouring seat went up by about 4,000 and I suspect alot of them may have normally voted Labour and were unlikely to be ex Tory voters . The long serving and excellent Labour MP was beaten by a Tory .
Voting Tory or Labour won't get you PR. If enough people vote Green/ workers party/ independent this time and the next time and the next, then the stranglehold will be broken.
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Hope the Greens win in Bristol, I like Bristol, and I live the opposite side of the Seven Bridge, either Plaid Cymru or the Greens will get my vote
new poster "Kier Starmer is a wet wipe" classic
Wooooooooo!!!
Not the black guy pouring water into himself at the beginning 😂😂
Would love to see a video like this brought to Thanet in East Kent. One of the most deprived areas in Kent, always a tory stronghold and more recently had its electoral borders manipulated to retain one of the two seats held locally
Bristol City has played in the top division
Very true, their first goal after promotion was a Paul Cheesley winner at Highbury! He grew up in the village I grew up in just outside of Bristol in North Somerset.
Look at Keir Starmer’s handle of Gaza
I would've been chuffed to have a local Green candidate. Tory, Labour, Reform, or Nationalist. Those are the only options in my constituency.
Go greens!
was that guy washing bird poo out his hair?
Damn didnt know u were gonna be in my home town
Aaron you know your politics but bristol city were in top flight the old first division from season 1975-76. They played four seasons in the top-flight
I remember it well, Gerry Gow etc etc..
Tiny Austria and all European countries have loads of Green MPs. Why does the much larger Uk population just have one, or maybe even two Greens?
Discuss.
Schtarmer's party is shaping up to be Ingsoc. "Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the social ist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of social ism."
Bristol City played in the old 1st Divison!!!! Less of that smack talk lol
“It’s the home of Massive Attack” but uses video footage of Roni Size 😂 (whom is from Bristol)
When you vote, keep in mind youre voting for your local area, whos out here on the steeets? Whose policies do you think would be good for your town? Dont vote sunak vs starmer vote for whos improving your town
Bristol HAS had a football team in England's top flight.
Galloways party is the new labour
"never had a football team in England's top flight" City has been in the first division for 9 seasons. football existed before 1992 believe it or not
We need to vote liberal democrat and have them as opposition to Labour
Is that storror parkour behind you Aaron?😂
Alister Crowley was an occultist member of the male only OTO. Some women think the occult gives them power. Charles Manson was a warlock in the OTO. Witches' serve warlocks, simps serve witches.
Is there a chance of labour and green forming a coalition government?
If it came to it I would be in favour of that and so would many others I suspect .
@@scooby1992 they could fix labour from within
@@harryroadman1089 That is a job only Labour can do if there is the will. They could put pressure on Labour from the outside if they have reasonable success in the election.