Green manifesto launch: ‘end disastrous policy of austerity’
Natalie Bennett is speaking at a theatre / arts space in Dalston. Slightly different from Labour’s choice of the Coronation Street set.
This is the vision that sees the end of the “disastrous policy of austerity”, she says, which is “exciting increasing numbers of Britons”.
In 2010 one in 100 chose to “go green” now, she says the polls say as many as 1 in 20 choose her party – this is the “Green Surge”, she adds.
Voters have seen what just one Green MP can achieve she says, and now want to see what more could do.
The first pledge in the manifesto is to increase government spending by £177bn, or 20 per cent by 2019.