00:00It's ten years since the sad death of your sister.
00:04There's been some violent rhetoric in the past couple of weeks
00:07from some parts of the political community.
00:10And I wonder, at this sort of stage, as we start thinking about Joe again,
00:15how that sort of rhetoric is sitting with you
00:17and what you sort of made of some of the things that we've heard
00:20as a reform candidate wasn't talking about Theresa May.
00:23It's really upsetting.
00:25And look, I've been given the same interview for ten years now
00:28since Joe was killed.
00:29We've all got a responsibility to think about
00:31what our political discourse looks like,
00:33and that is everybody from people who are elected,
00:35to candidates, to journalists, to social media companies,
00:39to every single member of the public,
00:40about how we speak to each other and how we treat each other.
00:43I had a candidate for the local elections attacked this week.
00:46You know, this is not what our society should look like,
00:49and there are very serious consequences to language and to rhetoric
00:53and to things that people say, and my family knows that more than any.
00:56I just would ask everybody to just step back,
00:59try and find common ground,
01:00and when you can't find common ground,
01:01disagree respectfully and with civility.
01:04I just don't think that's an impossible task,
01:06but we all need to think about our own personal responsibility
01:09and what that looks like.
01:10And you're right, it's ten years since Joe was killed,
01:12and I've reflected a lot on that,
01:14and I don't think we're in a better place than we were in 2016,
01:16and that is a bit depressing.
01:18But it doesn't mean that we give up hope,
01:19and we all need to keep working towards the kind of political culture
01:22that I think we should be giving the public.
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