Jonathan Brooks comes from Sidcup in Kent. He works as a university lecturer at Southbank University in Accounting, particularly Management Accounting. Southbank attracts a diverse student population, especially those who have not followed a traditional study path or who did not speak English as a first language. He is also a trustee of the Crossness Engines Charity (the pumping station there was built by Bazelgette, near Abbey Wood) which is setting up a museum dedicated to the men who worked in that area of London, on the sewers during the Great Stink. He talked about the community that had worked there and an oral history project associated with it. He is standing as a candidate for the Green Party in the next election and went into some detail about how he used to be a Conservative Counsellor but changed his allegiance. He had also been in the Army and served in Berlin at Spandau Prison where Rudolph Hess was the last surviving inmate. He described the crumbling prison in some detail and that Hess had once asked him to return a ball which had gone over the wall, and he had declined his request. On the plinth he will be talking to the crowd about his work, who could be a statue on there, his involvement in the the Green Party, and a few environmental issues.