Hannah Spencer

So it was like, I actually don't really feel like I have a choice.

Like this is the only thing that I can do now to try and stick up for the area that I lived in and that shaped me as a person.

Yeah, I think, you know, it's how I felt at the time.

And it's really sad that like a lot of us, and I grew up in Bolton and I had the same feelings there where you think an area that's been really let down and overlooked, like the only thing you're taught to do is get out.

And I just had this feeling where like, I was like, that is really wrong.

And I think had I not had that experience, I wouldn't have seen the injustice between what happens there.

But I also know that that's what shaped me politically.

And I think I couldn't change any of what happened because it's that that made me realize that the inequality is so stark.

And people still complain about these things.

The area has got work.

Fly-tipping is so much work.

Fly-tipping was bad.

I complained about that five years ago.

It's worse.

The Labour Council are not looking after our streets.

The Camille bins that we have are overflowing.

People can't recycle.

There's dirty mattresses everywhere

Like there's all these things that could be fixed.

And I know when I lived here, and I have talked about this, like I lived here during a really challenging period of my life.