Brighton-based blogger Paddy Vipond has recently published an open letter to Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion, Purna Sen, outlining why he will not vote for her and will support the incumbent Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, instead. It’s an eloquent piece – in a very different tone from that usually reserved by Green Party […]
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Like a lot of Labour Party members and activists, I’m angry and confused at the moment. I’m angry that with the Tory Party in disarray, losing MPs to UKIP and humiliated in Europe once again as a direct result of its fear of UKIP, the media focus appears to be all about Labour’s leadership “crisis”. […]
In an extraordinary intervention in the debate about the position of the left in the forthcoming General Election, the Green Party’s national campaigns co-ordinator, Howard Thorp, has published a video of a conversation he had on the day that the European election results were announced with Peter Allen, a prominent Green Party activist and candidate […]
Last night I was selected as one of a team of Labour and Co-Operative candidates to contest Preston Park ward on Brighton and Hove city council, along with Julie Cattell and Kevin Allen. Preston Park is a key ward for Labour, one that is crucial to achieving our goals of winning the council and […]
There is a cynical view that party conferences are so much hot air – three weeks in which the party faithful essentially look inwards, with little that is relevant to the need of the wider world. That may be true at times, but this years conference season – and the events that have immediately followed […]
The newly selected Conservative candidate for Brighton Pavilion, Clarence Mitchell, has not got off to the most auspicious of starts. This afternoon he tweeted a picture a photo of Brighton beach, taken from his hotel window at the Grand Hotel: It’s a curious tweet, and suggests a certain lack of knowledge of the city’s politics: […]
The Labour Party has today adopted Purna Sen as its candidate in Brighton Pavilion for the next General Election. That decision promises to turn the Pavilion campaign into one of the most fascinating in the country. Purna Sen is an outstanding candidate. Reading her cv leaves one in no doubt that Labour have adopted an […]
Notes from a Broken Society 