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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
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Not being a professional footballer.
Getting down to the last two of certain jobs (Gangs Of New York and Fight Club) and being thwarted at the last second.
It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
Not pitching a perfect game in baseball to win the World Series.
Picnicking on the Downs with my family and dog – birds singing, sea sparkling, and mobile switched very firmly off.
Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister – for embodying a different, more compassionate politics.
Today’s children and young people – we’ve let them down by not doing more to prevent the nature and climate crisis, and left them such a huge responsibility.
I very often set my heart on things – and if they don’t happen, I’m not great at dealing with disappointment.
Passionate, mum, green.
Winning the first Green seat in parliament – although that’s cheating, really, as it was very much a collective achievement by the whole party.
Zoë Heller, Barack Obama, Jacqui Smith, Kirsty Wark, Samira Ahmed, Angela Eagle
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