Leader Interviews - Adrian Ramsay of the Green Party | Election 2024
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- We talk to the Green Party's co-leader Adrian Ramsay.
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He's been a councillor in his native city of Norwich and has run two national environmental charities, and is standing in the new parliamentary seat of Waveney Valley which straddles the Norfolk and Suffolk border.
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I'd rather Green was in charge of the country
Yes, and there goes another wasted vote.
@@dingopisscreekyou don’t think that’s an issue? That in a democracy to only vote for two parties? If everyone actually voted for who they believed in it wouldn’t be an issue
I'm impressed. Think I'll give them a vote.
Please do. I'll be voting Green for the first time in 47 years.
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Very poor interview style. Belligerence just for the sake of it. Not necessary.
Yeah, I’d expect better of Krishnan
Krishnan was very disappointing in this, so rude to the leader of the greens when he is never this rude to Labour or Tories
Krishnan has a reputation for being rude to everyone. Adrian dealt with it well.
I preferred Krishnan Guru-Murthy when he was on Newsround
I wasn't expecting much but this was a very positive interview for the Greens. Adrian was clear and concise and had a coherent answer for every question asked, even the "gotcha" ones.
What we need is PR so that voters and our democracy can truly be represented in our parliament and government!
Agreed!
An 80 seat majority on only 43 % of the total vote has served up factional and divisive politics and a Cabinet failing to deal with the economic consequences of EU withdrawal and immigration, Covid and war in Europe.
More people would vote for change if their vote really counted.
PR of some sort is urgent, to break the cycle of safe seat, tactical voting and central office managed candidates.
Yes. But party lists and/or complicated voting and/or MPs without a constituency?
How about, If no candidate gets more than 50% then they decide amongst themselves, with each casting the number of votes they received.
Guru-Murthy never interviewed Sunak and Starmer in such a manner.
Of course not, because Sunak and Starmer are part of the same cosy neoliberal-consensus among the main parties and the media as Mr Guru-Murthy is!
I’m not sure Sunak and Starmer have agreed to be interviewed by Channel 4 News in such a style as this, whether by KGM or otherwise! I will say as a non-affiliated (political or media or otherwise) viewer that Ch4 News has robustly questioned members of both those parties in interviews before (while not necessarily part of this election campaign), even though many of those times I would have liked them to push harder! I’m not sure the aggressive line taken here by KGM is necessarily what anyone needed though, including referring to policies and candidates as “crackpot” and “crazy” (two ableist slurs for a start, and I know both Ch4 and KGM are better than that!)
Honesty, sincerity, decency, hope, ambition.
A straight forward, clear politician who stood on his principles and didn't evade questions ...
I'd rather Green was in charge of the country
The guy interviewing was so rude
I'll definitely be voting green!
Yes. We’ll be voting Green Party this time round 💚
I vote ccp .
Adrian nailed this, really well thought out answers
Guru-Murphy clearly demonstrating his own bias in this interview. "Weird and wonderful" is used to brand parties as irrelevant and eccentric. Poor performance from interviewer and Adrian really held his own against this charlatan. Greens have never been bigger in the UK, Guru-Murphy needs to do better homework!
The only party that could get my vote.
I think this is the first time I’ve actually heard Adrian speak. I usually only see or hear from Zack Polanski (who I like). But yeah, good for him for taking control of the narrative and having the cojones to propose anything other than different flavours of neoliberalism.
Given he is co-leader I’m surprised I don’t see him more often it’s mainly just Carla denyer
Guru-Murphy is So Condescending & dismissive.
I like what there doing and wish I had a representative here in Worthing East 💚
I like this guy.
Great interview, I’ll be voting green and I really hope they can get the seats they need to make a difference!
Dude really got flustered a few times there, but impressively held his nerve and got his words out.
It's infuriating that the Overton window doesn't allow conversations that will truly benefit "ordinary" people, let alone tackle the climate crisis to any meaningful extent because that's just not profitable for the multi-nationals and threatens the status quo which got the powerful and influential into the positions they have.
If we had a functioning democracy in this nation, Labour wouldn't be able to coast to an easy victory by saying they're going to do nothing substantive for anyone, thus we're not doing to see the electoral changes required without taking to the streets in the kind of ways that Brits just don't do, especially when they're not being properly informed as to why they need to 😢
It's such a sad state of affairs, I truly despair.
Glad the greens are getting more attention from the media, crazy how some small right wing parties with no where near the support of the greens get all the focus 💚
Great interview Adrian - well done. The interviewer was quite tough on you but it made you really bring out policies to life and make than relevant to the current political situation. Great work …
I think that Adrian performed very well in this interview and I'm very happy that he's co-leader. I hope he becomes an MP but sadly the Tories will probably win where he's standing.
Bring on PR so my vote for Green actually gets more Green MPs!
We need a fair voting system, we need to make our country fairer. We need change for the better, not change back to the 'old normal'.
very insightful interview
I will be voting green again nothings perfect but at least they are talking like adults on policys that matter don't know what the interviewers talking about and neither does he mind you it's not him talking its his earpiece saying what his paymasters tell him to
Wow, so only the Greens have crackpots in the party acouding to the interviewer 😆, has he ever seen what's in the other parties!
Not impressed with KGM here. We want to know what the Greens would do. They are clearly a rising force to be taken seriously. Show some respect and offer fair coverage please.
Despite this Ramsey did remarkably well and better than starmer or sunak would have, for sure.
I thought it was a very good interview and Adrian Ramsay did very well. Unlike other commenters I believe KGM did Adrian a huge favour by putting him through his paces. Respect to both.
Why is Guru-Murthy going on about the Greens being leftists?
We need (PR) proportional representation. Labour keeping the two child benefit cap is abhorrent as is Labours stance on Palestinian. I'm voting Green in Stockton West.
A 20 minute interview showing how Adrian Ramsay was well briefed, unlike KG-M who tried to resurrect the old ‘third party is a wasted vote criticism ‘ -
usually directed at the Liberals.
Trying to pigeonhole someone as too left didn’t work either .
Credit to Channel 4 for opening the door to alternative candidates.
Perhaps the next step is to include urgent discussion for electoral system change- given the disastrous prospects of a future government based on a glaringly worn out 2 party system.
Amazing Greens.
The three main guys are Carla Denyer, Adrian Ramsey and Zack Polanski. ALL are vegan and as far as I am concerned, on the right side of history.
ALL three are EXCELLENT speakers too.
Carla was spokesperson on the the 2, 7-way political debates on TV. She did brilliant. Has been a vegan for many a year.
Adrian Ramsey: 'As a vegan for 25
years and a member of Animal Aid since a teenager, I have a strong track record of campaigning on animal rights issues both within and outside the party.'
Zack Polanski is Jewish - fighting for Palestinian rights - and been vegan for four years and was vegetarian for ten years before that.
They CARE on every front 💚💚💚
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Why hasn't Channel 4 interviewed the Labour and Tory leaders in the same way as this extended, deeper-explored examination of potential future policies of the political parties?
They don't need to agree to tough interviews to get coverage. Heck, they don't even need coverage, Labour's going to win, Tories are gonna get smashed, it's only a few [almost] meaningless percentage swings that'll occur from them.
It's frightening there may be no "left of centre" party with a seat in England.
Because they don't have anything
@@craigburton4447 Hey now.
They have:
🎶"Do whatever the rich man says, cos whatever the rich man says is gospel" 🎶
It's .... not exactly election winning, and that's why publicly they have nothing and therefore questions can only be about nothing, but they have something.
And because they’re scared of being properly questioned and forced to defend their record and views! I definitely agree that we as an electorate need this type of interview for all the political parties during a general election campaign, and I think it speaks volume for the Green Party to have agreed to this and to have held their own!
There are still two weeks left… I’d say that maybe this sort of feedback will shame the two main parties into submission, but I suspect one of them already knows they’re toast, and the other is too complacent and already too busy planning on how to decorate in Downing Street to want to subject themselves to that level of scrutiny…
My postal vote for the Green Party is going in tomorrow either way 💚
GM nearly crying about the prospect of wealth (capital gains) being taxed AT THE SAME RATE as income. Embarrassing
Impressive. Greens need PR like the others. This was super impressive
Krishnan takes an undermining stance, disappointing. Adrian Ramsey spoke well I thought.
The average person doesnt seem to support making meaningful changes on the environment. Until it is too late that is 🙃
Technically, it is too late. To have a chance at keeping most of our infrastructure where it is, for what it's there for, we need to be extracting carbon/methane/water vapour from the atmosphere at a substantial rate, using "clean" energy that we're just not going to have.
For the head scratchers ... there's a significant delay between cause and effect with the climate, the gasses we're pumping out now won't be reflected in the temperature change for several years.
Wow this guy speaks facts
Adrian comes across very well, despite the best efforts of the interviewer
If someone worked hard to build up a business of £10million, then paying £100k is nothing to them. They will still keep many many millions.
Remember when people used to deny climate change and acted like dumping chemicals into the water and air is normal.
It's nice to one of the other parties getting some air-time. I don't think I'm alone in thinke the other two aren't even woth listening to because they never really do what that say they will.
Everyone vote Green see what we can do
So good 👌
I voted Green for the first time again.
Like music to my ears ! the only party offering real change. Tackling inequality, rent control, nhs dentist, saving the planet, taxing the billionaires. Positive changes to help people in need. What is there not to like it works very well in all the Scandinavian countries that have good public services. Voting Green is common sense. 😊
I thank God and my Late aged mother that I was able to leave Britain (W. Wales) for Bulgaria, back in 2006. As "we" sink into the mire they want a (Nuclear) war with Russia. Lunatics have indeed taken over.
Wow, I normally like Guru-Murphy but my gosh he's so much more of an aggressive interviewer than he would be with Tory & Labour. He is so rude.
Vote Green because this is exactly what we need in the future
Interviewer was working against him the whole time. Obviously biased or afraid of this guy getting popular.
Defo voting Green
Well said Adrian and vince is sure your younger brother Gordon ramsay is making a beef Wellington in your honour
actual diagnosed schizophrenia
12:30,
I can attest to this aswell there are a lot of developments in the area the developments are mostly semidetached houses. Meanwhile there are 3 bedroom homes being rented out to young people as 5 bedroom homes. We need a lot more apartments. I also find it interesting that he's brought up east anglia again, as he also did with itv. I guess he probably lives there.
The only houses being built in my village are 5+ bedroom mansions that go up for sale for over a million pound.. This isn't helping anyone get on the housing ladder. I agree with the greens sentiment that the type of house is more important than the amount.
I'm all for supporting greens and Jill Stein for president in 2024 the Green party candidate Jill Stein
I guess the interviewer tie should have been blue , tories out get rid of them
Green forever
interesting that him and the 2 leaders are very eloquent. able to form cogent sentences incomparably better than starmer. odd, unfunded policies though
Jill Stein run for president as A green party candidates in the United States.
No need to ask questions and then speak over him wth
Bit rude Krishnan :/
Such an annoying interviewer. Zero respect for the leader of the Greens.
They need to be pragmatic on subjects outside of environmental issues.
Co leader... That says a lot.
Both Carla and Adrian are Co-Leaders.
What does it say?
@@sluglife9785 It says there are two leaders instead of one. It's possible James failed his GCSE Maths, so to him it may be very telling.
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So if i understand him correctly, he implies that a business owner who financed a business tfat employs people, with millions & risks massive costs to run that business, supports & pays those employees when business is good as well as slow, takes risk, navigates the minefield of government rules & licenses shoukd not earn more than the person whose effort for tg
Hat firm ends at 4pm every day... why woukd anyone build a company under these conditions?
I myself am a Green Party member, do I do find it a bit unsettling that Adrian Ramsay refused to acknowledge the Green Party as left-wing? I do think we could find someone better to lead.
This isn’t about left right though. This is about prosocial and pro-environment choices being on the ballot with the Green Party.
I myself am a Green Party Member but I do find it a bit unsettling that Adrian Ramsey refused to acknowledge the Green Party as left-wing? We could definitely do better than him as a leader I would think!
Ridiculous, he is a good strong mp and your problem is that he won’t say a useless statement that doesn’t do anything but alienate potential voters
Channel4 supporting the Greens with the over-representation theyre getting
I’ve seen multiple videos on all parties, but you don’t believe in fair representation
Wow, he repeatedly uses the boris slur 'our nhs' like he thinks he owns us just because we work for the health service. Offensive entitled fella, you ain't getting our vote by insulting 2.2 million of us again and again and again in a matter of minutes.
Huge difference between someone who supports private sector involvement and someone who genuinely believes in an NHS run for the many
It's a public service, it's therefore our NHS, just as they're our police, firefighters, civil servants etc etc.
Or maybe you're just a troll.
What you on about
I'm not a troll, I'm an NHS worker. And I don't belong to you!
@@doctorsticky No, but the service, the system, the purpose, DOES, no employer owns a person, at least, not explicitly, legally speaking, supposedly.
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