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Zack Polanski, "Core principles of The Green Party, we are anti racist, anti homophobia, transphobia, anti misogyny, they're not negotiable" Ash Sarkar, "Do you see The Green Party turn into a socialist party? Or is your vision a party that has socialists in it?" Zack Polanski, "We're already a socialist party... In terms of the wider public we should be talking about food on their table, heat in their homes, and yes, the means of production" "What is is like when you go to work, do you feel you are in charge of your life, is politics done with you rather than to you" "I think those are the vitals questions rather than get into philosophical conversations on socialism vs capitalism" Ash Sarkar, "I can see how we can talk about these domestic bread and butter issues, but Labour's support for an ongoing genocide in Gaza has benefitted the Greens politically" Zack Polanski, "It's about making sure we have absolute solidarity with people around the world who are facing genocide or conflict. That's obviously in Gaza but also Sudan, Yemen, Syria, lots of places where British intervention has made things worse" "What I'm saying is not hypothetical. Look at Zohran Mamdani who has been incredible focusing on those bread and butter issues and every time he's asked a trans person, a disabled person, a migrant, Palestinians, he has shown absolute solidarity" "And he's pointed out that inequality is making those things worse and gets straight back to the economic issue" "So once again we need to lower bills, tax millionaires and billionaires" "And show absolute solidarity to migrants, trans people, and indeed Palestinians"