North west, lewes and there are places we are already part of the demonstrations but hoping for councillors elected. demonstrations but hoping for councillors elected. what makes you so confident councillors elected. what makes you so confident that councillors elected. what makes you so confident that will councillors elected. what makes you so confident that will be councillors elected. what makes you so confident that will be case - councillors elected. what makes you so confident that will be case that i so confident that will be case that you will gain 100 plus seats. at the moment putting food on the table is a far greater concern for many households and carbon emissions, for example. is there not a concern that your messaging is off point? i example. is there not a concern that your messaging is off point?- your messaging is off point? i think voters know your messaging is off point? i think voters know and your messaging is off point? i think voters know and trust
By street, home insulation programme that gets people s homes insulated so that our bills would not be so high in the first place. that is the cheapest, most effective, fastest way to get people s fuel bills down. time and again the government has refused to put that in place. as well as giving people more help where necessary in terms of those energy bills, what i would love to see is for the government to close the so called investment allowance, which is basically a huge subsidy to the fossilfuel which is basically a huge subsidy to the fossil fuel companies to get yet more oil and gas out of the north sea which is a pretty perverse response to a crisis caused by high gas prices, and instead put that money into protecting people through insulating their homes and making sure that their fuel bills can come down as well as climate emissions and create jobs down as well as climate emissions and createjobs in the process down as well as climate emissions and create jobs in the process a
Energy, a nationwide home insulation programme. that would help those on the lowest incomes. , ., ., incomes. but you did say that the greens incomes. but you did say that the greens were incomes. but you did say that the greens were too - the greens were too middle class, didn t you? i acknowledge that s the perception. i think it s increasingly at odds with reality. so for example in bristol where i am a counsellor, i m one of 2a green counsellors on the bristol city council, largest group of green counsellors in the uk, in fact, and a group of green counsellors is really diverse. we have quite a few counsellors from working class backgrounds, very proudly so. we also have a great diversity in terms of age my sexuality, etc. and i think thatis my sexuality, etc. and i think that is really good because it results in better quality decisions when you ve got a wider diversity so i agree it is a challenge for the environmental movement but i think it is something we are getting bet
Absolutely. you have to ask the question why did the government do things like cancel the home insulation programme back in 2010 that would have, by the time i got to this crisis, would ve put it in a better place, and has some of the policy attitudes on things like renewable energy actually added to our problem now because we have not developed alternative sources? so we can talk about licensing fossil fuels as we heard from the australian journalist on dateline earlier, available on the bbc iplayer if you want it and repeated over the beacon, she was making the point that the australian government, federal government which has been campaigning for restrictions because of climate change has now also licensed extra fossil fuel development, which fossilfuel development, which is all fine, but that will take years before we actually see the benefits of that. from that point if you come in a sense, if we do have to have rationing, it s because we brought this on ourselves a bit, isn t it?
Balance of westminster and at the palace of westminster. he has gone to collect the crown to take through to collect the crown to take through to the robing room for when the royals arrive in a short while. let sjoin royals arrive in a short while. let s join reeta. royals arrive in a short while. let sjoin reeta. i royals arrive in a short while. let s join reeta. royals arrive in a short while. let s join reeta. i am oined by caroline lucas h let s join reeta. i am oined by caroline lucas from let s join reeta. i amjoined by caroline lucas from the - let s join reeta. i amjoined by caroline lucas from the green | let s join reeta. i amjoined by - caroline lucas from the green party and list of all roberts from plaid cymru, both of whom will be in the chamber. caroline, your party did very well, you have doubled your councillors in the election, what are you hoping for from today? today has seen a new are you hoping for from today? today has seen a new report are you hopin