🎵 Change The Tune - Green Party Election Broadcast (2015)
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- When every other party - Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP - seems so similar it’s like they’re in a boyband, it’s time to stand for what you believe in, and vote Green.
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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Wait, what
0:59 - A... party political harmony...?
1:15 - Just best buds having a fun time
1:27 - TUITION FEES (that wink though)
1:50 - Austerity love
2:05 - Will Eddie join the band?
2:19 - Diversity?!
2:34 - Nick LOVES the coalition
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Creative Director - Stu Outhwaite, Ben Middleton, Ed Warren
Creative - James Mitchell
Strategist - James Mitchell
Agency producer - Madeline Smith
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Client - The Green Party
Director - Johnny Hopkins
DOP - Denzil Armour-Brown
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Producer - Barty Dearden
Music Company - Eclectic
Composer - Colin Smith
EP - Ben Clark
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Post Producer - Ross Culligan
Colourist - Simon Astbury
2d - Rich Greenwood, George Rockliffe, Vicki Gordon
Audio Post Production - Factory, Dan Beckwith
Editing - Marshall Street
Editor - Gary Forrester
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That wink from Clegg 1:27 at tuition fees is diamond. Well done Greens.
Seriously, this is such a good party election broadcast. I must've watched this 100 times over the years🤣 I love it. As someone else said, both insightful into UK politics in 2015 and also very entertaining!
Credit to the Green Party.
The only party that seems to bloody mindedly think of normal people these days.
*****
So there are some people that are still using this kind of logical fallacies nowadays...
Oli Greens - "Normal people".... bwahahahahaaa.....
Aye, the renowned Jew-hating mental cases who want wealth tax imposed on top of extra higher tax brackets are 100% thinking of "normal people".
***** Most of the people in jail are male, and there is a huge disparity in the amount of crime committed by young men and older men too. The threat to society from most female prisoners is minimal, because they aren't responsible for 95% of the violent and sexual crime. Look into the statistics and you will see that this is true. Time and again studies have shown that women are punished far more harshly than men in court - often this means that if they had been male they wouldn't be in prison at all. If you're going to attack sexism, you need to look at what that means in terms of the actual crimes committed and the sexism already present in the current system.
***** Oh I agree. We have no way of knowing EXACTLY what anyone will do before they are elected. Mind you, they were in much more oppressive regimes to start with.
...this started off cringeworthy but actually turned into a really amusing political ad.
Emlyn Owen Good for you standing up for what you believe in
OneUpdateataTime Please explain what is amusing. The hunour is either too subtle or too obvious and I missed it.
OneUpdateataTime those men looked like a boy band aimed at 90 year olds
Nope, just cringe
Haha never seen such a brilliant Election Broadcast video that is both insightful and goddamn hilarious! Nicely done Greens! :D
***** because communism is totally the root of all evil. what's next, you're going to tell us that the earth is only 6,000 years old?
***** Haha was that you trying to dehumanise me by claiming I'm a left-wing nutcase?
1. You're talking out of your ass if you think the Greens are "commies".
2. So what if I'm left-wing, if you don't like that then gladly fuck off. Thanks.
***** It's not about whether communism is good or bad, that's a facile argument. There are some things that communism, as it was practised, did that were awful. But you'd have to stretch Stalinism a long way to say it was communism.
***** as an ideology, especially on a small scale, I.E. in businesses. Communism shows good ideas, but as soon as human greed kicks in it goes to shit. for example, having the same pay within business is a lot fairer than those at the very top doing fuck all getting paid a stupid amount of money, while those at the bottom have to take up to 3 jobs just to make a living wage.
Ukulemon L Yeah you're right lots of ideology are innately good, but when practised do still produce some evil, yet everyone always criticises these ideologies i.e religion etc, so why should communism not also get that same criticism.
I accept that communism on paper is not necessarily bad, but it has been practised in a bad way, however that same argument could be said for a lot of ideologies that face these same criticisms every day.
Still a banger
God this is probably the best political broadcast I've seen from all the parties. It's fun, catchy and unique. It put a smile on my face :)
Still a hit in 2024, will still be a hit in 3024. Can't believe this was almost a decade ago now!
I was thinking of voting Green. After this, definitely not.
if you've been persuaded not to vote Green off of one video, you can't have been thinking about it that seriously
My main doubt was that they don't have a handle on the serious issues and this confirmed it. They should have presented a realistic plan for change. This is just a comedy sketch. I can't vote for them just on the basis they're not like the old school tie cabal that dominates Westminster, that's simply not a rational basis to vote for them. In fact, it would persuade me just not to vote.
Lucas O'heyze they do indeed. the manifesto still hasn't been released yet, so I'd take a look at that when it is before you make up your mind on them. the whole point in this video was to move away from the doom and gloom of the current political scene while getting key policies across such as opposition to HS2, fracking and trident. while supporting the scrapping of tuition fees, renationalising the railway and putting public services back into the public hands
Steven Hannigan And stopping TTIP? Sorry that seems to be a dirty word in politics in Britain - and unnamed here too!!! The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partenership - corporations and their pals like irony too. But it's the most anti-democratic Trade deal you could ever hope to find - and nobody in the UK gave a mandate for it. stop-ttip.org/sign/
This is the kind of stuff they should have presented, in a straightforward and mature way.
This was great!! I have been so disillusioned by UK politics. I was not going to vote, but now I think that I will go green! The humour has helped me realise that I should vote for a party that holds similar values to myself. NONE OF THE ABOVE..... perhaps not any more. Thanks to the Green Party for converting my apathy, anger and rage with the UK Political system into something actionable. The Green Party may not win, however, my conscience will be clear. Well done.
Love that
I think the Green Party will do a better job making parody videos than being a political party
Brilliant video, with the Greens you get an end to fracking. The others promise the Heaven, the greens protect the Earth. Greetings from Ireland, Think globally, act locally.
interesting
Yeah, an end to fracking and an open-door policy to mass immigration. Very green I'm sure. If you welcome that, then you're as thick and disingenuous as the sham Green party - i.e. the watermelon party.
I'm far more pleased with the Labour party than I was this time last year thanks to Jeremy Corbyn, but I'm still happy to see the Greens gaining influence.
I'm more pleased with Labour too. Under Milliband there was a chance they could of taken power. Thankfully with Corbyn there is no chance of a Labour government in power for the foreseeable future.
@@goatwarrior3570 you still agree with that?
@@rastamouse3624 Yup. Labour are on track to lose yet another election with that dirty old marxist clown at the helm. 👍🏼
Which just goes to prove that the watermelons have no real interest in Green issues, but are merely a sham party, dressing themselves up in a worthy cause they have no real interest in, but instead are just another bunch of extreme left-wing nutjobs.
Excellent video and what a unique and innovative way to get your message across.
All the other parties are the same (despite them not being the same) wow so innovative you ecosexuals.
William Python You're right, they're not the same. We get a choice between liberal state capitalism, liberal state capitalism, liberal state capitalism and national state capitalism... Oh the diversity!
Edward Nigma
The rest of the parties being shit isn't a sufficient reason for voting for an even shitter party.
William Python I don't think they're a shittier party. They don't fully represent my views completely, but they're a damn side better than the alternatives. The rest of the parties being shit is a reason to vote for a slightly less shitty party. We know the influence of elections on policy is going to be minor at best. My main support for the Green Party comes from their policies aimed at bringing democracy to the UK for the first time in it's history.
Edward Nigma Your personal opinion is irrelevant as to whether or not the Greens are shit. They ARE shit and their policies will completely bankrupt this country and leave us vulnerable. They are the party for idealistic leftwing students who remain economically illiterate.
Easily one of the worst party political broadcasts I've ever seen
Luke Vernon Why is your collar up? Bellend.
You do know my profile picture is a drawing dont you, Mr Burns..... :-)
Luke Vernon It's about as bad as any other negative campaigning I've seen. At least they mentioned some of their policies at the end.
Joel Holderness he's got to be ukip support that's "I'm not racist" :-)
You chaps make a lot of assumptions based on one drawn picture.... :D
The Green Party is the only party in this election worth anything. Fuck the four blokes who just repeat the same old shit - we need change. Vote Green 2015
The only party that makes me want to find my national insurance number so I can register to vote.
George! What happened to all of your videos???
Why, did they take it off you when they dragged you off to the mental asylum? The Green party couldn't give a shit about green issues, the countryside, etc. Like you, they're ethnocidal lunatics who support mass immigration, thereby leading to more houses being built, along with the infrastructure that goes along with it - i.e. more roads, etc. They're a bunch of disingenuous bastards!
Is there anywhere we can listen to the full song? She seemed to cut them off when they were about to bring it home.
Your lazy populism about them being 'all the same' is a blight on democracy, and worst of all; it's during an election where the IFS have said the difference is huge and will have a real impact on our lives. Well done guys. Well done.
Also, the thing about tax. Today of all days? lmao.
Jade Azim They all support Fracking, Trident, Privatisation of NHS, Austerity, privatised railways, tuition fees, I can go on....
Jade Azim Labour have done nothing but pander to populism these past few years.
Richard Barrington You are naming single issues. I could also name single issues.
Bankers bonus, mansion tax, scrapping the bedroom tax, some £40 BILLION more cuts under the Tories (Check this out in contrast: www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/03/labour-could-end-cuts-next-year-and-still-meet-deficit-targets-says-ifs) < that alone means a SUBSTANTIAL difference in how the state works. Substantial. HUGE.
I'm not saying this as a tribalist. There are EMPIRICAL differences that make a huge difference. This is the IFS talking.
I agree it's dumb Lab doesn't just commit to nationalising the railways though tbh.
Ewan Paterson So the other reply to this was that Labour haven't done enough to support populist ideals on fracking, trident, railways, etc, and you're giving me a completely different perspective. They can't win.
Jade Azim Uhm, I'm not exactly sure what definition of 'populism' you're following here.
Populist agendas have fuelled the anti-migrant rhetoric espoused by UKIP, something Labour have followed to the teeth. Populist agendas have fuelled the belief that Britain needs a nuclear deterrent, something Labour supports. Populist agendas have fuelled the belief that Austerity is necessary, something Labour supports.
Labour succumbs to populist pandering all the time - it's why so many disaffected Labour supporters have moved to the green party.
Voting Labour. Sorry Green's! Catchy tune though.
Trisky Like fracking?
***** The Greens would make raping young children into a national holiday.
Morden101 If in "disgusting", you actually mean "true", they you're correct!
Who is watching in 2021?
Credit to you guys for this - I'm not sure if you'll ever top it!
Cringe
@Meruem5 I don't think any party ever will. I don't even vote Green and still think this is a banger
As someone who studied economics quite a few years ago, have to say the Greens' economic and monetary policies are absolutely spot on. Their chief economist is a PhD and Professor of Economics, so not surprising really. (Unlike the clueless George Osborne with his second class History degree).
Yeah I'm still voting UKIP...
Josh Brown Can you give any reasons why?
+Political Bob Dosen't believe in equality - UKIP are racist, arrogant dickheads.
Political Bob I'll give you some reasons. I live in Europe, on the continent. And I'll tell you this: Britain's political establishment is a running gag here. It's extremely globalist and extremely progressive. You're giving away the most precious thing you have, a nation that used to have social cohesion. That's partially the fault of the corporate interests in politics, replacing meaningful social interaction with consumerism. Sure. But it's also the progressive left that's at fault, because it's added several new nations to Britain and sowed enormous cultural, religious and political division. All in the name of diversity. When the next set of riots break out - and it is a matter of time - remember that this is the price you pay for more ethnic, religious and cultural diversity.
Bloody hell lads calm down. Everyone has there opinion. Respect it.
Josh Brown If you are a UKIP voter then I would like to point out that the UKIP manifesto showed that you would in fact borrow 30bn and cut 31bn and that was dependant on and EU referendum which would inevitably cause a financial crash which we would be unprepared for under UKIP. Hypothetically even if you managed to cut 1bn from the budget in 5 years without the crash that would still leave the housing, bond and stock bubble but with a further 450+ billion of debt waiting to explode and 85bn deficit. Also no banking reforms and no meaningful change in housing policy reforms such as repealing right to buy and taking away VAT on redevelopment of existing brown field property even though they want to protect green belt. Also did you know Caroline Lucas voted for an EU referendum and that greens are against open border immigration strongly?
Thank god. You got a class of Year 9's to write the lyrics.
noluckst2 well we had to keep it at your level pal.
... Not far off from the truth, I'll give you that.
noluckst2 9 year olds.
Like the current establishment.
9s*
Plurals don't need an apostrophe, as we were all taught in year 9.
Says an adult who can't use proper punctuation.
2:03 yet its greens who want a complete open door and don't think they'll need more houses to pave over that green and pleasant land.
theposhenglishguy but we've committed to 500,000 social rented houses so you seem slightly out of touch....
Richard Barrington made of plywood i'd presume
The greens are deluded!
***** Pay attention I will say this only once. The £60K is the nett new cost ( discounted by the rent we would receive over the life of the parliament ) All funded from cancelling buy to let tax relief about £8B pa and the £1.5B p.a. already allocated for new build, We currently splash out £26B pa to private landlords for, frequently, substandard accommodation simples! There is sufficient land in developers land banks and local authority plus brown field sites so not an issue. SIMPLES
***** Dude, its all there. cost IRO £25B met from 5 x 1.5B + 5 x £8B = £47.5B The money that currently gets paid to private landlords comes back to the LA, so in total the scheme should free £40B over 5 years all of course needing pro-rata-ing over the 5 years... its complcated but works.
If you think debt is a myth then vote Green/SNP/Plaid/Labour.
Labour?! Are you blind?
We are in debt primarily because of Labour, but the other three are the only ones opposed to the actions putting us further in debt. Your point doesn't really make sense.
Debt is the result of how money is created. Shockingly most money is created by private banks in a totally un-democratic way out of thin air. Money = Debt. A long term goal is to nationalise the banks and end the fraudulent system, so that tax payers no longer have to service the interest on the debt through tax. Monetary reform garners cross-party support. When debt is an insolvency problem rather than liquidity then you have a problem because the debt cannot be repaid. Two thirds of economists agree that austerity has damaged our economy. The Green Party are on the side of the majority of experts on the economy. There has been a huge increase in the amount of money in the system in recent decades, this correlates to a huge increase in debt. Our own finance spokesperson Molly Scott Cato talks about this in her book: books.google.co.uk/books?id=Z7OD6hjUNNUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Green+Economics:+An+Introduction+to+Theory,+Policy+and+Practice&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3GslVc3qEoqrsAH2voK4Cg&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Green%20Economics%3A%20An%20Introduction%20to%20Theory%2C%20Policy%20and%20Practice&f=false
Lommyism That was rather educational, thank you for posting it.
Lommyism "The Green Party are on the side of the majority of experts on the economy" The green party believe giving everyone £76 a week whether they work or not and think negative growth is good for the economy/country..
Maybe if you were actually standing in my constituency...
The idealist in me wants to vote green (if i could).
The realist in me sees Tories killing the NHS and damaging this country beyond repair with harsh ideological austerity to shrink the state.
That and the fact that this Labour party is genuinely a step in the right direction (away from New Labour) is why I'll vote Labour. I implore anyone in a marginal seat to vote the Tories out.
If you're in a safe seat then please do vote green, a high enough percentage might help the spectrum lurch left, like the rise in UKIP has made it lurch right.
I get you on that, I'm a student living in Manchester where Greens actually have a good chance so I'm definitely voting Green but if I was back home in North Wales (there's a fucking Tory) I would be voting Plaid Cymru because they did well last time.
small world, I'm a student at Manchester from Chester, Chester is marginal Tory/Labour with no Green standing so my choice is clear.
Which constituency you live in in manc? I was surprised to find that all of Fallowfield is in Gorton constituency rather than Withington. Withington has a huge student voice though.
Labour's main two donors are a hedge fund manager and Tony Blair, yet you somehow consider them any less corporately controlled than the Tories? They are out to line their own pockets my friend, nothing more, and any promises they make are farts in a hurricane.
The Greens did a crowd funding campaign to get representatives running everywhere in Britain which was largely successful. However, if you're unlucky enough to not have one going where you are, Labour are not the second best option.
Labour are just tories in red, you need to be pretty ignorant not to see that.
MrCharlieTwist Well said.
Just as relevant in 2022 as in 2015.
i love this. still more relevant now in 2021/22
As A patriotic Ultra Conservative Socialist
And a Green Anarchist I approve ! 👍 good work keep it up !
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But nuclear power is the best source of power we could have, look at France. Shitting on the rest of the world with their energy problems out the window, and when Fusion finally surpassed fission in every way Fusion will be the best way to go. Nothing against solar or wind etc but it's silly to say they're so much better than nuclear when the only downside of nuclear is the waste which is currently disposed of practically 100% safely and only gets better (and if more plants were built more research on it would occur too).
As long as you don't build Fission plants on earthquake/tsunami zones *looks at Japan* and you aren't slack with the safety precautions/training/inspections *Chernobyl* it's simply the best.
Joel Mahon And it's simply the most expensive.
yeah 2.bp.blogspot.com/-DuZwudT5vzg/T_EzHX-NUtI/AAAAAAAAV8E/9nJKIoYB2xA/s1600/LCOE.png
solar is only like twice as expensive...but yeah live in your fantasy.
Joel Mahon I agree nuclear power needs a closer look from the greens, and likely worth using for some degree of time. But it's big issues are in uranium mining and resource depletion - Solar/wind/hydroelectric power stations can go on for millions of years, nuclear reserves are estimated to last 200 years tops.
Joel Mahon Nuclear takes too long to come online we don't have the time for it as an interim solution.
Lommyism France switched to near 80% nuclear (and thus carbon free) within 15 years. You can build more than 1 station at a time for great results. Renewables have achieved around 15% of our energy in 20 years, and lots of that was preexisting hydro.
more relevant now then ever
Best party political broadcast EVER. Who ARE these guys? Far better than any real boy band!
shellsimon members of the Green Party and lookalikes
I was going to vote Green anyway, but this was rather funny when it just randomly popped in my television screen last night. It just shows you that green party can have a laugh and seem like genuine funny people. So they've got my vote!
As I natural Tory I was disappointed to find this was the best PPB I had ever seen. Brilliant, well done to all involved.
I've had this song in my head all week, absolutely love it!
Good job!
Seriously?
***** Mate, it's a mickey take... can you not see that?? ... Ugh idiots these days.. .3.
Alltime Conspiracies Hit the nail on the head,!
Alltime Conspiracies ahaha didnt think id see you here!!
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Btw, all the men these guys are impersonating are now all out.
clegg is out of westminster
Not Farage now
Dylan's World and they’ve been replaced by Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer, Ed Davey. I don’t know who leads UKIP (or if they’re even important anymore)
Ed Miliband had the last laugh. He’s the only one of these guys that’s still an MP.
I laughed so hard when I first saw this on TV in the last election
This simply destroys any pretensions the Greens have of being a serious party.
2:15 that.... THING on the left gives me nightmares to this day
This is brilliant! Very well put together
your promotional videos are so good tbh
Nigel Farage didn't even go to Oxbridge; merely emblematic of the ignorance that this party chooses to prey on (especially on economic matters).
Greetings from your friends in the Green Party of the United States!
We are so pleased to see Green values resonating so well in Britain and we wish you the best of luck in May!
oof
I do just want to say that since leaving this comment, I’ve left the Green Party and am increasingly critical of green politics for their lack of class analysis
If you find this video funny you should check out the last satirical piece that the green party put out called "The Green Party Manifesto", it's hilarious!
I remember that xD
Would like to check it out, but it's not been published yet.
Ah, shame. Just as I was about to start taking them seriously as a political party. Great wacky humour, really zany and enjoyable but this has made up my mind that I won't be voting for them. More of a well-meaning pressure group than a party. :)
Because of a silly ad? Have you not seen the ads from the Tories, Labour and UKIP? They're just as stupid. This sort of shit is populist propaganda and like it or not, it's needed for a political movement. The greens are trying to capitalize on young voter bases and those on the far-left. It's just like Tory/Labour propaganda against each other (on purely non-substantive issues, of course) and UKIP propaganda outside of the EU.
Not saying the Greens are perfect, I don't think we'll find any legitimate solutions within our parliamentary system. I'm likely going to vote for the Green Party for their views on proportional representation. If there was a campaign for democracy in the UK, then I'd likely vote for them. Silly propaganda tactics or not, they're the best of a truly treacherous lot.
***** touched a nerve?
Edward Nigma Sorry guys. Maybe for people who don't know about the specific policies of UKIP, Cons, Lib Dems and Labour that might wash but it doesn't for me :)
kinghani Can you describe the specific policies that make Labour and Conservative fundamentally different from one another? Let alone liberal democrats. I'll admit the views of UKIP on certain issues do vary from mainstream elite opinion.
***** Nah I'll definitely vote. Not for the Greens though. Maybe go and take a couple of deep breaths now mate :)
From the Irish experience of having greens in the government in the last 15 years... I can safely say that the Brits would be wasting a vote on your lot!
You'll let whichever party you form a coalition with walk all over your principles and make people poorer in the name of public interest.
I'm not going to vote for a party acting like clowns.
I wholeheartedly support the green party policies, but my respect for them has lessened slightly, what I used to like most about them was their maturity in not bringing down other parties but instead standing true to their beliefs and policies. I still support the party fully and still see them as better than the likes of labour conservatives ukip etc. but my respect has slightly dropped, funny video though and honestly the points are valid.
Greens vindictive policy on the royal family.
The Queen should be kicked out of Buckingham Palace, they say, and put up in a council house.
I like the election broadcast and the lyrics are funny in places, but I still disagree with most of what the Green Party stands for.
peace and humanity?
Matthew John That is as vague as when the Conservatives say they want to build a "happier and stronger Britain' - I took the liberty of reading the Green Party policy website and about 95% of it I strongly disagreed with. The policies on education, taxation, welfare and immigration I felt particularly strong against.
Who cares what THEY want to do. we know what they want to do in the bigger picture. this is about us being in a significant time when collectively we are more aware than ever. we don't need to be lead anywhere - the green party isn't about stature and wanting to be led by someone its about using it as a vessel towards our beliefs one brick at a time and the green party is a start to being the humans we need and want to be. we lead the green party not the other way around. depends if you want to be a lead zombie by trained dictators commanding a passive nation or not. Ultimately supporting any party is a belief system...and we are the people who make anything function...anything is possible we put our minds to. the only things stopping us is ourselves.
Matthew John Your reply seems contradictory to the whole message given out in the video. the video stressed the importance of a wasted vote being the vote you do not believe in. If I do not believe in what the Green Party are calling for (we can only judge their aims based on policy), surely me voting for the Green Party would be a wasted vote for me?
While I accept politics is about the bigger picture do we really know what the Green Party wants? I would say no! The things I grasp from the Green Party is that they're all busy caught up in the ideas of equality, fairness, humanitarianism, and environmentalism that anyone who has a belief different from Lib-Lab-Con-UKIP automatically assumes it's Green. In the end you do not have a political party as such but a hotchpotch of different opinions and aim, some completely contradictory, falsely believing they have something in common. The Green Party is effectively a franchise for lots of independent candidates who believe they will do better if they call themselves Green. I do not want to vote for someone who has a completely different outlook on life than I do.
Alternatively, if I do not know what the Green Party stands for in detail, I cannot support what I don't know. therefore, as there is no support, the vote for Greens would be wasted. The Greens have not thought that line through.
Matt C Read their manifesto then?
I was expecting to cringe at this after the Lib Dem's butchering of _Uptown Funk_ (though admittedly that may have drastically lowered my standards), but I was pleasantly surprised.
Good broadcast but it's simply not true that ukip are the same as the three mainstream parties, whether you like them or not
Samuel Coe What distinguishes UKIP apart from the hardline anti-EU/immigration stance? They support austerity and privatisation like all the other mainstream parties. The Greens are the only true alternative.
Samuel Coe The point that they were making was mainly centered on economic policy, where the point is completely correct, since ukip, labour, the lib dems, and the conservatives all accepted varying degrees of austerity, rather than investing in the economy, as the greens wanted to do.
Ukip is only significantly different from the mainstream parties on the EU, and perhaps constitutional reform. The changes the Greens propose are for a different society, whereas what Ukip talks about is a lot less far reaching.
JDrakeify I disagree, I think UKIP wanted a different kind of society to the other parties, one based somewhat on Christian values. It's true the Greens were offering something different too though
Samuel Coe Well, there policies were not particularly christian. They wouldnt scrap gay marriage, and if they had anything to say about abortion then I missed it. There policies on the enviroment were, if anything, detrimental to stopping climate change, and significantly cut the foreign aid budget. Nigel Farage also claimed that not allowing foreign hiv patients access to the NHS was the 'christian thing' to do. This is the religion whose founder went around preaching love thy neighbour, telling parables like the good samaritan, and healing the sick who were social outcasts because of their disease, so I think thats a slightly odd thing to claim.
If they wanted an upheaval of society along christian lines, they, and there policies, did not advertise it, and it was their own odd conception of it.
JDrakeify UKIP is the only mainstream party that opposed gay marriage and is the only party openly critical of multiculturalism.
There are obviously different interpretations of what a 'Christian' country entails though, as you've just demonstrated
I have not had a good laugh in ages. Might be worth voting alone lol
Without a doubt the best PPB I've ever seen. Couldn't stop laughing when I first saw it. Really hits the nail on the head!
So true... Greens are the only genuine alternative.
Oh my fucking god this is amazing XDDDDD
Say what you like about the Green Party, but who else's party political broadcast will you remember a year from now?
Brilliant, and highly amusing. Let's hope this goes viral and persuades more people to vote Green!
I dont support the Greens but I forgot how awesome this ad is!
Now all lets sing along: Austeeerity!!! Austeeeerity!!! oh oh Austerity!!! oh oh Austerity!!!
I'm dying.This is the best Political broadcast I have ever seen. XD
Can not stop watching this, thanks Green Party. My vote has always belonged to the Greens and continue to.
Labour has once again returned to being the Conservatives
You have to be an idiot to think that.
@@___UN *correction: Labour has become the Conservatives and the Conservatives have become UKIP
@@TomJohnson67 What have Labour done to make you think that they've become the Conservatives?
@@___UN Keir Starmer hasn't really stood up to them at PMQs, or really disagreed with any of their policies. Yes, he's furrowed an eyebrow every once in a while, but hasn't done anything of substance. I suppose Keir Starmer is more "electable" than Jeremy Corbyn, but if this is what it takes to be electable, God help the UK and its bland, uninspiring politics.
@@TomJohnson67 you clearly don't watch pmqs
Fair play, it's a good video. Doesn't do much to sell Green Party policies though rather than just crush the others. Surely the Green Party wants to be more than the vote of last resort?
According to polling, around 15% of the 2010 Lib Dem Vote are now voting Greens, probably in disgust with what the Lib Dems did. This 15% is largely made up of 18-34 year olds. As a 25 year old, my issue with this is that, whilst the Greens will never end up in Coalition with the Conservatives, for a second election in a row, my peers see themselves as too left for Labour, yet their votes (due to splitting the left vote and allowing rightist candidates to come through the middle) could again see Cameron as PM. At some point, you have to look at what the Labour party are offering (abolish non-dom status, abolish zero hours, clampdown on tax loopholes and fines for tax avoidance, lower tuition fees) and go, this is a party who if I vote for them, will definitely take the country left. And under first past the post, a vote for the Greens does not necessarily do that, just as a vote for the Lib Dems in 2010 led to this horrid Coalition.
when this came on tv my brother said he was going to vote the green party simply because of this video. I said I would if I were old enough, this video sold it for us... so amazing
Laura fox Oh dear. The folly of youth.
Monster Raving Loony Green Party is at it again. What a joke. xD
Really rubbish advert. Don't make vague claims about all the other parties. Make hard-hitting accusations, eviscerate their actual policies. This is silly point scoring that is almost certainly bound to backfire.
Edward Nigma Edward in 3.50m impossible to do as you say, so to highlight they are all the same and only one is truly different is the only way..
Richard Barrington Look at UKIP propaganda, compare it to Green propaganda and you'll see why right wing populism is performing better than left populism in the UK, despite the majority of people being left, or far-left leaning.
I would never put my pen anywhere near the greens box but... you've entertained me this evening!
because I dont agree with most of what they stand for
The current political system is broken. We need to find new systems that WORK!
*I* think the party with the best chance of doing good for the country is green.
I would still rather there not be a need for any of them..
This is brilliant!
This seems kind of childish... I don't like parties poking fun at each other, period. I thought the green party would avoid a tactic like this. After all the Green party does say 'vote for change', but this doesn't seem like it's making much of a change from the usual childish strategies to get voter's on side. I'll probably still vote green just to try and break the shitty two party race.
Dan Vann Dan, its a good way to highlight the similarities between the other parties without being too negative. They all support Fracking, HS2 apart from UKIP, Austerity, demonising the poor and vulnerable, marketisation of the NHS, railways in private hands and Trident etc etc.
Richard Barrington Sure, but personally, I would rather they just say what makes them different from the other parties. Rather than making a dumb song out of the other party leaders.
I was slightly disappointed when I realised what it was because I thought they were above it... but it was surprisingly entertaining and still different to what I've seen from the other main parties having a go at each other so I'm okay with it. It pointed out some major differences which could make a lot of people who don't have the time or patience to trudge through the policies, vote for them.
Dan Vann Agreed. But I don't mind as long as they keep these sorts of campaigns to a minimum. Politics can't become much more of a joke than it already is.
This is brilliant. The Greens here in Australia totally need to do something similar! :)
Great video and I'm delighted that you mentioned the issue of Trident (which is the issue for which I left the Labour party and joined the Green party).
Bunch of socialists. I'm voting UKIP as I believe in democracy and the right to govern ourselves.
damn socialists... thinking everyone should have an equal opportunity in society and that a rich country like ours shouldn't have anyone going hungry. what a farce! god forgive they'd let those immigrants into our country, it's not as if they contribute £5billion more to the economy than they take out.
Steven Hannigan Economics... From a party that pledges to build 2bn homes with £500,000.
TheAgeofPaine Can you be more specific in your objection? For example by citing a policy and explaining how it would affect the people of he UK?
The NHS is socialist. I'm guessing you want that abolished?
Steven Hannigan Regardless of the issues we disagree on, surrendering ever more of our parliaments power to Brussels, renouncing our freedom and sovereign identity will mean neither your party or mine will be able to implement the very policies it stands for.
This is important
Well hello there ;)
I wish I could put bobble-heads of members of the GOP on these guys and release that spot here in the States.
You had me at ban fracking and scrap trident
Finally! some fun in politics
HAHAHAHAHA!! SNP man, but totally behind the Greens
Can I ask why you support the SNP? (English labour supporter here)
What is the name of the guy who plays Ed Miliband?
First PPB to make me laugh ever. And it steps up and says exactly what the party means. Job done.
Miliband's double is too good looking
This is hilarious, I love it.
Haha, how refreshing. Goodbye Same Old Suits, 'we're in together'. Brilliant video, best I have seen ever. We should get it to Number One.
Life Long green voter here, was brought up to respect people, so naturally it just seems like greens are my only option, as the other parties just dont cut it when it comes to fairness and equality.
Funny but I really hope you have another election broadcast.
Why did you choose someone who says "Gween Party"?
This. Just this. We need more of this. (I think you should release it on the charts.)
What is always interesting on the web is how much interest UKIP voters take in anything and everything the Green Party and its supporters say and do. A large percentage of the comments on here are from UKIP supporters. This always makes for good debate. Thanks for your indirect support. :-D
I'm a human and I like oxygen, that's why I'm voting green.
Somebody tell me why they have an Aussie leader??
serendipityuk Personally I think the leader should be Caroline Lucas, she is their only MP and more charismatic than Natalie Bennett who quite frankly isn't very good at debates or interviews.
serendipityuk they couldn't find any native brits to support them.
serendipityuk It pisses off UKIP… Bloody Aussies, comin' over 'ere, leadin' our parties...
***** She was the leader, she stepped down if I remember correctly
Caroline Lucas was arrested for peaceful protesting of fracking so whilst going through an unreasonable court case she stepped down as leader I think that's when she did it.
amazing, a beautiful election video
Yeah, because we're communists. Progressive democratic socialism is communism. Read a book.
***** +1 for reading the Manifesto.
***** Well done on reading the manifesto, Marx is right about a lot of things, but that and Green Party policy are no where near similar.
What a song! Had me laughing all the way through...I mean Greens live in gagaga land I wish I was able to get onboard because it seems like a good place but I cant!
Oh gawd... I'm glad your policies are better than your marketing
Given the hype about how young people hold sway in this election, the marketing here is actually exceptional. What demographic would you say this is most appealing to?
MrCharlieTwist I would say this is least appealing to young people if that is the answer you were looking for - this is as if Clegg had gone into a school playground and had started saying how their policies are sick, or that the kid should "'llow the coaliation, nah?"
AK97M I am a young person, and I think this is friggin' fantastic! Although, of course I can't represent every young person, it has been spreading like wildfire, and is trending first on twitter. Pretty big deal! ;)
AK97M exactly
AK97M I'm 21 and I like it, so like Hannah I think they've hit the market they were aiming for.
Brilliant. 10/10.
All English liberals, you have to vote for the Greens.
"More members than UKIP or the Lib Dems"
True, but that's a void point when you're polling behind them.
I would not vote for the Green Party, but well done with that Party Election Broadcast - brilliant.