Josh Babarinde MP
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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I think it's fair to say that we're a mightily ambitious party and we're ambitious for the country. We're ambitious to really play that role as the real opposition. There's a massive gap there and the Tories just are not competent enough to fill it. So the sky really is the limit. We're campaigning, you know, not just in Parliament, but also at local government level as well.
Councillors across the country are really important, looking after services that people care about day to day, not always the most glamorous thing, whether it's the bins or the potholes or whatever. But we get stuck in, in terms of government, etc. That's above my pay grade, I'm afraid. You can ask Ed that question.
Yeah, well, there's loads of stuff. So on the short sentences stuff, 57% of people who serve a short sentence go on to re-offend. That is not justice. With such a high re-offending rate, something's clearly going wrong. So something needs to change. One of the key things that we need to do is follow the evidence and look at what's the stuff that's going to reduce re-offending. Now,
I know from literally getting people out of crime and gangs myself that there's loads of stuff that can be done in the community to drive reoffending down. So supporting people into employment, making sure that people are getting the support, whether it's around mental health or drug and alcohol support or housing support, all that kind of stuff is really important as well.
And then there's also the preventative stuff. How do we prevent crime from happening in the first place? And I think something that's been really troubling that's happened over the last few years is you've just seen loads and loads of cuts, say, to youth centres. And for me, youth centres are about more than just, you know, PlayStation, ping pong and pizza, all of which are amazing, by the way.
But it's about creating what I would describe as safe spaces where young people can develop pro-social values, things like sensitive communication, collaboration, conflict management, which helps people stay at the core of society rather than at the margins. And for a lot of young people, you know, they develop those values at home or at school.
But for some of them, school isn't working out for them and home maybe isn't a supportive environment. So they need to have another space. Oh, that's telling me that there's a right happening or something starting. Sorry about that.
Oh, well, there we are. And that's to say that prayers are starting. Oh, right. OK. And the House of Commons is about to begin for the day.
yeah i mean we want to be a constructive opposition um so that means um you know where there are good ideas uh being put forward by the government uh supporting them um and where we think they need to be even more ambitious pushing them to do so um the cool thing about uh james timpson is him and i used to collaborate in our pre-political lives so when i was setting up cracked it um
About 10 years ago, I was connected with James and Timson actually do phone repairs as well. And we spoke over the phone and he gave me loads of tips and he said, why don't you come down to one of our training academies in a prison? and come and see what we do and, you know, nick some of our great ideas and apply them yourself. And so I did.
When I got elected and found out that, you know, the following day he was made a Lord and the prisons minister, I dropped him a WhatsApp and said, oh my God, we're both parliamentarians now. Look forward to collaborating.
And we're catching up in a couple of weeks time, in fact, to speak about what's happened for both of us over the last 10 years, but in particular, what's happened over the last three months. re-offending.
It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun. You know, it is amazing to be able to, you know, take things that are happening on the ground in Eastbourne, in my constituency where I was born and bred one day.
uh and literally the next day take it to the floor of the house of commons to put it to a minister it is really magical to fight you know for my town that made me me in the process so i'm absolutely loving it it's a big responsibility and i really do feel that um but uh yeah i look forward um to carrying on for the next five years and if the people of eastbourne have me again beyond
Thanks, Josh. Thanks for having me, guys.
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