Hold candidates to account

For the past 18 months I have been documenting stories with victims of domestic abuse alongside what was meant to be the implementation of the ‘landmark’ domestic abuse bill which I also advised on.

This bill has fallen due to the General Election, which means it will no longer progress.

The legislation, which was promised 2 years ago, even had it been implemented still needed to go further.

I am a survivor of childhood abuse.

Undiscussable is my new podcast series that presents these stories and voices, including my own into a deeply personal, raw and challenging rethinking of domestic abuse.

I would like to ask for you and your readers to stand with me and hold all political parties to account in this general election, and commit to end domestic abuse in their manifesto pledges, improve the fallen bill and implement it as an urgent priority.

There were 2 million victims that we know of last year, male and female adults, and given that 85% of people that are victims of domestic abuse don’t go to the police, the amount is grossly under reported and estimated.

The podcast is available at www.charliewebster.com/undiscussable or please search Apple or Spotify.

Please help me break this detrimental cycle.

Charlie Webster Broadcaster and Advocate www.charliewebster.com

from previous years?

I know there were people that didn’t like it, but I thought it was lovely. And from comments I heard about the one this year, it looks like they’ve wasted yet more of taxpayers’ money.

In these times of recycling and saving the planet, the council should set an example Kerry Newton

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