Luke Shirley

away from the values that I hold dear. Values I believe will make our society better. I put myself out there to be shot at and criticised

and this was never about winning for me. This was about showing that my ideas and the way I can present them could get traction/ support

and they have. I will never forget the reaction I received from people at the Trades Council Hustings, to the BBC Radio Shropshire debate

Those experiences cant be taken away from me. The fact that I know if I had 100s of volunteers behind me I could be a real force for change

because I can connect with people. I've done it in my job for five years and I know I am effective at getting messages across and convincing

I'm not going to stop trying to build a better world and hopefully on 9 June that world will be closer to being reality rather than further

But at the same time I am disillusioned with the reality of politics. The fact I became a victim of my own success. 5 week of being ignored

to suddenly having to fend off criticisms from numerous people.

And I've effectively done this on my own you know. So I will sign off from this long winded tweeting thread by saying this...

I'm only going to get more momentum and I am always going to have the passion and drive that looking into my son's eyes gives me.

So consider yourselves forewarned because I'm going to be ready for 2019 and the Green Party are only going to grow in this region.

I'm going to make sure of that. Open, responsive, inclusive to all. Lessons to be learned on all sides after this #telford #ge2017

And not wishing to quote either Cameron or Blair because I don't like either of them but I really do feel like I'm the future.

So be nice and kind to one another. We are all someone's child. I'm done and out until Thursday. Thanks for reading if you did. #votegreen