1 week Ago By Fran Winston
Good Morning Britain presenter Ed Balls suffered a major embarrassment on air when he confused Bristol and Birmingham when referencing the current bin collection issues leading to laughter from Green Party MP Adrian Ramsay. The politician was on the show discussing why people should give his party the vote when Ed enquired: "You will get your bins collected, even if you live in Bristol?" Ramsay laughed at the remark before correcting the ITV star. "Absolutely (because) it's Birmingham where people are not getting their bins collected enough.
People will definitely get their bins collected where there are green councils and they will get more recycling, which is, I think, what people want," he said. The remark came after Ramsay had assured viewers that a green vote in the upcoming local council elections would ensure areas get: "Hard working local representatives and people who will stand up to defend our local environment and restore our public services." "And not only that, at a national level, we're the ones saying we should be willing to ask the very richest in society, the multi millionaires, the billionaires, to pay a little bit more in tax so that we can restore our NHS, which, even under a Labour government, is seeing frontline services that are already overstretched further cut," Ramsay said.
Challenged by Charlotte Hawkins that the government were pushing back on some green policies because as a country, "we can't afford it" Ramsay said the Green Party believed energy prices were at the root of hte cost of living crisis. "We absolutely need to tackle the cost of living crisis, and one of the root causes of that is high energy prices. "And if you look at what green councillors are doing, where I was for our local election launch in Warwick, the District Council led by the Greens has spent £5million on making council homes there warmer and more efficient, to run cheaper, to run by making them greener," he said.
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