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Breaking the housing deadlock with Allegra Spender

Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny

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The Importance of Materialism in Politics

The Greens have been really kind of interesting politically around the housing stuff. They sort of showed a level of maturity around negotiating on climate, right? Which I think is actually quite impressive given that it was not exactly easy for Adam Bant to land that deal with his incoming members. A lot of Greens MPs, especially their leaders until quite recently, are literally people who were jailed for protecting the environment. Like, that is a very different worldview to someone like Adam Bant, who has come through a different career path and a different trajectory. And he's more what we would call materialistic. He understands the politics very well, and he, he reads that, he plays that game quite well

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