Liberal Democrat Federal Board member and Hackney mayoral candidate Pauline Pearce was on Woman’s Hour yesterday talking about how she channeled her anger into her campaign against knife crime.
She talked about how she was so angry that the 2011 riots had stopped her doing her community radio show, her escape from chemotherapy and radiotherapy and focus for her campaign. That’s what motivated her to rail against the unfocused
She had been campaigning on knife crime long before her son became victm to it. She described how her personal experience intensified her anger and she had to “put the sensible hat on.”
Her involvement in politics and the Liberal Democrats gave her a bigger platform to campaign on and an understanding of how things worked that helped her anger to be put to productive use.
Listen here from around 25 minutes in.
And if you want more Pauline, listen to her Ted Talk from 6 years ago:
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I really do hope Pauline becomes a Lib Dem MP one day, I’d love to see it happen. The party needs people like this who are actively involved in campaigns as a community activist and then bring that experience with them into politics.
Absolutely JohnJ.