EXCLUSIVE: Farage’s Worst NIGHTMARE? - Green By-Election Candidate Speaks Out
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Am I speaking to Nigel Farage's worst nightmare? Ooh. So, Gordon and Denton by-election, honestly, historic by-election. People not have been thinking by-election, smile elections, why do they matter? Would they ever change anything? But this is actually maybe about reforming stops in their tracks. They were in Wales, not that long ago. Everyone said it was in the bag for them. Applied Cunery won. Also, is this about Labour finally getting replaced? Maybe the Green Party. So I mean, big, big high stakes, 26th of February. The clock is ticking. I'm delighted to be speaking to the Green Party calendar, Hannah. Hey, Hannah, how you doing? I've just been talking to you. You've been doing some plastering? I have, yes. I've just come |
| 0:38.3 | into what is, I think, a broom cupboard in college. They're very kindly assigned me this area to come and have a quick chat with you and then I've got to get back and plastering a little wall. Well, I'm delighted you've taken a bit of time out of the plastering. Just before, because if you want to talk about, obviously. |
| 0:55.9 | I don't know what you're going to do. Right. Basically, you've attracted an army of what I can only describe as truthers, who refers to this thing, because you're a plumber. So just, I wouldn't need to talk about that, just a dirty background, but they're going, she's not really a proper plumber. She's not really, and all this kind of stuff. And then she's not a proper, |
| 1:12.2 | then claiming she's not a real plasterer because you're actually in training to do plastering. |
| 1:16.8 | Just tell us, the, the treatises are out there. Yes. And what should be response? |
| 1:22.2 | I will be happy to tell them and assure them, but yes, I am a plumber um so something since i've done since i sort of |
| 1:29.1 | left education at 16 like i've always worked other jobs alongside doing that like a lot of us have um yeah |
| 1:34.9 | and then a few years ago i went back to college and did an apprenticeship with a housing trust to get my |
| 1:40.5 | gas safe qualifications that was another thing they can't get the head round. |
| 1:46.7 | So not only am I a bummer. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm also, yeah, a gas engineer. |
| 1:53.1 | And then for a long time, I've been dabbling in bits of plastering, |
| 1:56.5 | but just couldn't ever really get much better because it is an absolute skill. |
| 2:00.5 | And so, yeah, I've come to college now to do a course there's a massive skill shortage of |
| 2:02.2 | trades people generally but plasterers especially so I'm here skimming all day every day and |
| 2:08.5 | yeah and so I'm just going to set that record straight I don't know how else to do it if I put |
| 2:12.9 | a picture out they don't like it if I don't put a picture out they don't like it I'm like |
| 2:16.6 | do I just get all these people next to come to college and watch me foster I don't like it. If I don't put a picture out, they don't like it. I'm like, do I just get all these people next to come to college and watch me faster? I don't know. I mean, |
| 2:23.0 | I think to be honest, even that, but they probably say you were CGI'd or something. Yeah, I was |
| 2:28.1 | AI. It was a deep thing. Yeah, exactly. Why is it important to have people who, for example, are clubbers in Parliament? Because |
| 2:36.6 | a lot of people who work in Parliament are works in the city, maybe their lawyers, you know, |
| 2:42.5 | kind of those sorts of jobs, kind of quite very well-paid kind of jobs, which are kind of |
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