1/ It's the final day of voting. The campaign is done - you all know my message by now - so I'm going to tell a story instead.

As some of you know from my bio, I got involved in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) back in 2000.

2/ It was a very niche sport that few people had heard of, that was frequently misrepresented in the media, and faced calls from overzealous local councillors trying to ban it.

Women's MMA barely existed at the time.

3/ Comments on internet forums (& occasional radio phone ins) were all about how women's combat sports were unseemly, uncivilised, or just "a joke".

We were repeatedly told that women would never compete in the UFC (the largest mixed martial arts promotion)...

4/... That nobody was interested in watching it. That there was no market for it. Yet despite that the female fighters of my generation built a sport.

In 2013 I became the first British woman to fight in the UFC. Now I've moved on to other things, but the progress has continued.

5/ I won't pretend that things are perfect - but I'm so proud to see the cultural shift that has happened in the last two decades. A shift that I was part of, in real time. A shift that even many supporters couldn't see coming.

What does all this have to do with Green politics?

6/ The thing about cultural shifts is that before they happen they seem impossible. After they happen, they seem inevitable.

7/ I believe that the Green Party is just on the cusp of something huge. I believe that if we play it correctly, we can bring together the progressive vote.

I believe that to do this we need to be serious about...

... but you know the rest.

Let's get serious.

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