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We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.
The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.
On many issues, Jeremy Corbyn and I are in agreement.
Actions speak louder than Climate Emergency declarations.
I come from a very conventional and non-political background.
I'm a great believer in needing things that give us some hope.
A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.
We need to block dirty diesels getting public money - no question there.
Petra Kelly is my inspiration, one of the founders of the German Greens.
We cannot afford to burn the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves.
The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.
Sometimes it takes a sudden change to make you realise just how bad things were.
My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them.
My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.
Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.
I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.
It's going to take everyone to rebuild a fairer, more sustainable, more beautiful Britain.
I think there is a role for non-violent direct action when democratic channels have failed.
Once upon a time the Conservative party was a broad church which embraced a range of views.
I joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and protested at Greenham Common.
The response to coronavirus has shown what can be done when governments put their mind to it.
I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.
I don't think anybody voted for the Green Party without knowing what our position was on Brexit.
When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.
Climate change demands a collective response. We can't expect other countries to act if we don't.
Unquestionably, major transformation of the way the U.K. generates its heat and power is essential.
A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.
Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?
The Green Party is full of motivated, driven people who want to make change happen as fast as possible.
Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.
Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.
We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.
Fading are the days in which a cohort of towering power stations ran the game (and captured all the profits).
As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.
We should entrust our young people with a voice to express their views on what their futures should look like.
We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.
We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.
We must have the right to name our fears and laugh at those who seek to scare us - or risk giving in to terrorists.
I stand alongside everyone campaigning for better pay and conditions - they are paving the way for a fairer society.
Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.
Humanity's inclination to be kind during the coronavirus crisis is an unprecedented, uplifting demonstration of solidarity.
Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.
When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.
We must instil our future leaders with the expertise, knowledge and skills to prevent climate breakdown and restore nature to health.
We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.
GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we want to be?
When it comes to topping the 'least popular' lists, MPs have form. Typically, we're pipped to the post only by bankers and traffic wardens.
The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.
I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.