Nice Tweet from Caroline Lucas

[Gwylan]

Just seen this on Twitter

"Great meeting with Alan Sanders, Director of Albion in the Community - incredibly impressed by range of work they do in #Brighton & beyond"

If she is going to be our next MP, it's good to know that she's not following the same anti-Albion agenda than some of her Green colleagues.

 

[The Large One]

Or... a politician knowing which side her bread is buttered.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I think you'd go a long way to find a politician that WASN'T publically positive about a community inclusion scheme.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Is that an election I see up ahead?...

 

[Stoo82]

Can she be MP and MEP?

 

[The Large One]

I think you'd go a long way to find a politician that WASN'T publically positive about a community inclusion scheme.

True, and I think going against the Albion is now seen as a possible vote-loser in many parts of the city (not all, obviously) - but it's something the Greens are only now cottoning on to, and Caroline Lucas is a dab-hand at going with the flow.

Don't get me wrong - I think Caroline Lucas is a good person, and would make a decent MP. It's much of the rest of the party she represents that bugs me.

 

[The Large One]

Can she be MP and MEP?

No. She'd have to stand down from being an MEP if she wanted to sit in Westminster, and another Green Party member would take her place in Brussels.

 

[Gwylan]

I think you'd go a long way to find a politician that WASN'T publically positive about a community inclusion scheme.

Well yes, but the former Tory PCC was very anti-Albion and there were plenty of people in the Green party who have been. And don't forget our dear friend Norman Baker in a constituency not a million miles away from Falmer.

It's nice to think that all politicians will say positive things about the Albion, but the fact is, they don't.

 

[Gwylan]

No. She'd have to stand down from being an MEP if she wanted to sit in Westminster, and another Green Party member would take her place in Brussels.

Not sure that's true. Ian Paisley was a Westminster MP and European MEP for a long time.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Well yes, but the former Tory PCC was very anti-Albion and there were plenty of people in the Green party who have been. And don't forget our dear friend Norman Baker in a constituency not a million miles away from Falmer.

It's nice to think that all politicians will say positive things about the Albion, but the fact is, they don't.

I take that on board, but I think you'd struggle to find a quote from even Baker, criticising the club's work with disabled children...

 

[Gwylan]

I take that on board, but I think you'd struggle to find a quote from even Baker, criticising the club's work with disabled children...

Yes, but as Baker was a colleague of Bellotti for some years, you'd expect him to have sympathy for those excluded from normal society....

 

[The Large One]

Not sure that's true. Ian Paisley was a Westminster MP and European MEP for a long time.

Yep, you're quite right.

However, I can't see Ms Lucas being in Westminster AND Brussels.

If she was my MP, I wouldn't want her to. I'd want her to represent her constituency in Westminster 100% of her working time.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

My tweet of the day

"Lucas is cool"

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Caroline is in the process of completing my twenty question Brighton quiz watch out for it in the Argus next week. So far Nancy Platts and Charlotte Vere have responded with their answers. No word from Berni Millam yet.

 

[clippedgull]

I'm fortunate Simon Burgess (Labour) is standing for Brighton Kemp Town . Albion supporter through thick and thin.

 

[The Large One]

I'm fortunate Simon Burgess (Labour) is standing for Brighton Kemp Town . Albion supporter through thick and thin.

Er... not quite.

He's a Gooner from London, England by birth.

 

[clippedgull]

Er... not quite.

He's a Gooner from London, England by birth.

I must do more research before I post! He was a big supporter of our fight for the new stadium, that much is true!!

 

[KneeOn]

Can't argue with that but surely its slightly to get rid of the anit-albion association that there is locally with the Greens?

 

[The Large One]

I must do more research before I post! He was a big supporter of our fight for the new stadium, that much is true!!

True, although he wanted it at Shoreham Harbour.

 

[Uncle C]

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