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Nice to see Ed Davey reaching out to the independent media on the left. Far too often Labour just ignores it.

I'm a Green Party member and my constituency will be Labour vs Green but Davey comes across really well here.

This is at least part of what he needs to do to earn the votes of tactical progressive voters in Lib-Dem/Tory marginal. It's crucial that he isn't seen by the left as someone who is small c conservative.

The Lib-Dems talking about tax cuts isn't gonna do this even if they are tax cuts aimed at helping working people because that kind of fiscal conservatism is toxic to many progressive voters.

I went to prison in 2024 because of a non-violent Just Stop Oil protest(I'm not here to defend my actions or justify them) and was released in 2025. My sentence has now been fully served.

While in prison I noticed many of the failings due to underinvestment in the prison service but it also confirmed my belief that most prisoners(at least at the prisons I was in) were normal people who had made a mistake not vile people who needed to be locked away for the rest of their lives... I think my experience of being on the other side would help me to relate to some of the problems prisoners experience.

Would I be eligible to be a prison officer or would my record rule me out?

Thought people would be interested in this