Today's video is a little unusual.
It is my opening presentation from Saturday's live event in Cambridge.
It is the longest video we have ever put out. Support notes are here. These will help, I suspect.
The audi version is available here:
Slides Cambridge 28-2-26
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What can I say? This was genuinely Brilliant.
How do we pay for it? “We pay for it by doing it”. Excellent.
We know this to be true when there is a war or a pandemic. We could do the same for housing, energy security, our public services, our environment. Attlee’s postwar government transformed the UK when things looked so much more dire. We can do it again now.
Thanks, Jack
Think I am gong to have to find time to watch this at leisure.
May I ask, what was the age profile of the people attending the conference? Perhaps it is just the handful of people in the sightline of the camera, but there does seem to be more than the average amount of grey hairs. I have enough of those myself nowadays, but it is not enough for those of us over 50, 60, 70 to talk to each other. We need the youngsters in their teens and twenties too. I think you had an over-18 policy for safeguarding reasons, but did you get many under 30? Albeit they probably have better things to be doing on a Saturday …
The average age was well into the 50s, I suspect.
The trouble is, young people do not watch grey haired guys on YouTube.
We sold 6 young people tickets.
How do we break out from this? Suggestions, please.
Surely a starting point would be to get yourself invited as a speaker to a Green Party event. I believe you have local connections and whilst not all Greens are young, you would reach a much younger audience.
What about university societies?
Or festivals like Greenbelt that have a mixed age audience. I was underwhelmed by Jeremy Corbyn last year, but thrilled to be sitting behind a large group of secondary school children clearly politically engaged. The Trussell Trust host a venue so may be worth speaking to.
I am talking to Bristol University students tomorrow night.
I was at UEA last Thursday evening.
And Green group can invite me. But they have campaigning on their minds right now, I think.
I did Greenbelt. If anyone wants to sggest me to the organisers I would do it again.
OK, two suggestions, for what they are worth. I’m not a marketing or politics guru. But perhaps someone else reading here is.
Go where they are – e.g. TikTok. Not necessarily a full video, but a teaser that draws them in and takes them here or to YouTube.
And (with all due respect) perhaps someone younger in front of the camera? Perhaps one of your sons could try it?
We do TikTok. We make specific shorts now. We get least viwws on TikTok. We are growing well on Instagram.
My sons will be appearing, soon. Thomas has once, already.
But remember, credibility is key to success, and it is indisputable that I have more of that than they do. We could kill the channel by sacrificing it.
Could be that you could collaborate with people who are aligned with you and who may not know it yet.
Have you ever heard of the YouTuber Jimmy the Giant? His crowd leans much younger and I’m sure they would be receptive to your message of an Economics of Hope. As bonus: his videos have a long running length so I’m sure they could sit through something like this.
I like his stuff
Let’s be clear though. Can I work more than 15 hours a day?
You’re doing an amazing job, Richard. Just fantastic. I’ve been following your blog for a couple of years now and pretty much everything you say resonates, offers hope and just makes so much sense to me. And now, with the help of your team, I sense things are gaining momentum regarding getting the message out more widely.
I have watched the first 28 minutes of the video and will finish it tomorrow. I really wish I could have been there! If you come to Leeds (or Edinburgh, where my daughter is studying politics at university) I will do everything I can to attend.
James is in Leeds planning the next event this weekend.
June 27 is our planned date.