Hannah Spencer

I think Labour are going to be wiped, actually.

That's the honest answer.

I think they're going to be virtually wiped out.

And I think there's going to be quite a few Green-controlled councils.

things have changed a lot over the last few decades because working hard used to get you something.

It got you a house, a nice life, holidays.

It got you somewhere.

But now, working hard, what does that get you?

So, you know, I'm not new to it in many senses because I've been a local councillor for the last,

three years and I lead the group of Greens on my council.

So yeah, I'm sort of quite familiar with how things work a little bit.

But this by-election, yeah, it's everything sort of ramped up a little bit, a lot.

And yeah, I have seen much more of the sort of dirty, dirty politics, I think, in a really short space of time.

It was here that I got my first greyhound, Graham, the rescue dog who definitely rescued me.

It's where I saw firsthand who gets hit the hardest when there's a cost of living crisis, who gets left behind when those in power forget who they're meant to represent, and how those at the top benefit while it's our housing costs that go up.

To be quite blunt, because we're the only party that doesn't have vested interests, like billionaires and millionaires that are funding other political parties to look after themselves.

We're funded by members chucking in five, six quid a month, FICO's, and we're answerable to the people that vote for us and the members that decide our policy.

And that is really different from other political parties.

And it means that we can, yeah, act in the interest of the people that live in our communities before upholding the, yeah,

the things forced on us like the other parties do.