
Three months ago Kim Bailey considered her life humdrum. ‘I was working full-time as a manager in the public sector.
‘I’d walk my dogs in the forest. I’d been married for ten years. I didn’t go out much,’ says the modest mother-of-four by way of illustrating just how unremarkable her routine in the pretty East Sussex town of Crowborough was. ‘I was boring – very boring,’ she insists.
Walking the streets with banners? Certainly not. Rebutting the words of seasoned politicians at public meetings? Not so much. Appearing on breakfast television? Nope. ‘I’d never been on a protest before, I’d never done anything like this in my life.’
