Greens CRUSH Labour And Reform In Gorton And Denton - Political TSUNAMI
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. How are we all, how are you all doing? If you're curious about what I'm doing, |
| 0:07.0 | I'm just having a nice slice of pierced armour. Oh, sorry, I don't really get indigestion. |
| 0:16.5 | It's not hyperbole to say that history has just been made, that everything has changed and nothing will be the same again. |
| 0:24.6 | Hannah Spencer, Green Party candidate, local plumber, has crushed both reform and Labour in the Gorton and Denton by-election. |
| 0:33.1 | Her campaign defeated Labour in one of its safest seats and now Labour MPs across the country |
| 0:38.6 | are terrified that they're next. Should we listen to Hannah? I think we should. I didn't grow up |
| 0:45.2 | wanting to be a politician. I'm a plumber. And two weeks ago during all this, I also qualified |
| 0:52.4 | as a plasterer because even in chaos even under |
| 0:56.6 | pressure I get things done I am no different to every single person here in |
| 1:02.5 | this constituency I work hard that is what we do except things have changed a lot |
| 1:09.0 | over the last few decades because working hard used to get you |
| 1:12.6 | something it got you a house a nice life holidays it got you somewhere but now working hard |
| 1:20.6 | what does that get you because talk to anyone here and they will tell you the people who work hard |
| 1:27.2 | but can't put food on the |
| 1:28.6 | table, can't get their kids' school uniforms, can't put their heating on, can't live off the pension |
| 1:34.6 | they worked hard to save for, can't even begin to dream about ever having a holiday, ever. Because |
| 1:42.3 | life has changed. Instead of working for a nice nice life we're working to line the pockets of billionaires we are being bled dry and i don't think |
| 1:52.0 | it's extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life and i don't think that if you're not able to work |
| 1:59.3 | that you should still have a nice life. |
| 2:00.9 | I think that absolutely everybody should get a nice life. |
| 2:05.1 | And clearly, I'm not the only person who thinks that because I've made clear my position |
| 2:10.0 | and my commitment to working class communities, the community that I am from. |
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