Why Brighton won't vote Labour

Brighton Pavilion was the Green Party's only seat won in the 2019 election, but this time the party are hungry for more.
Despite Labour's predicted landslide on Thursday, Brighton Pavilion is a constituency where they're struggling to gain a strong hold of affairs.
We went there to get a flavour of how people are thinking about the election.
Candidates in Brighton Pavilion:
Siân Berry - Green Party
Carl Buckfield - Social Democratic Party
Tom Gray - Labour Party
Mark Francis Mulvihill - Reform UK
Ashley Ridley - Liberal Democrats
Citizen Skwith - The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
AI Steve - Independent
Sarah Victoria Webster - Conservative Party
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[@alimos76harrington62]

I wish Green would get as much press as Reform...mainstream media seems to love divisive rhetoric as much as social media but that isnt what society needs or even wants. Most of us would like to get on with each other. Green have integrity but they also gave commob sense policies, fairer tax and honest rhetoric that if we want a better nhs and school system then we need more tax.

[@jaybee4288]

National media gives every serious party a nominal amount of coverage. Any additional coverage they get, or coverage from commercial channels comes from what people want. Simply put if you’re making content and a Farage video gets 1 million views and a Green video gets 300 views, Reform is a much better proposition. On the same token much of Farages lobbying and budget goes on media and appearances. He throws press conferences while the greens throw local rallies. Basically the reason he gets so much more coverage is because he works for it and people want to see it. And neither is true of the Greens sadly.

[@NapoleonicWargaming]

😂 u🤡

[@freakydeaky1435]

Green got 2.7% of the vote last election, they are a totally irrelevant political force.

[@alimos76harrington62]

@@NapoleonicWargaming who do you think is being more honest and realistic then? Please not U-turn Farage?

[@ComicAcolyte]

Negative high arousal emotions will always get more attention look at social media it's all there. All influencers and politicians exploit for their own gain.

[@phillipminns7747]

Life long Labour voter, living in Brighton Kemptown, we had a decent Labour MP, who was booted out and a new guy parachuted in. I'll be voting Green.

[@archvaldor]

God I so want to live in Brighton right now. The collective madness that is causing the rest of the country to vote for Starmer's Labour astonishes me.

[@mildlydispleased3221]

Greens are a joke party.

[@iosifmarius7302]

Yes yes vote green. You will be green and in debt.

[@phatshoooh131]

vote reform

[@Redsleather]

Only the rich can afford Brighton rents or mortgages. God knows why anyone would choose to live there, it’s like Croydon-Sur-Mer. Run down, violent, full of drugs, homelessness and poverty and very dirty

[@heleng2274]

The Green wealth tax is the most sensible thing I have seen or heard of in any of the manifestos.

[@oneoflokis]

💯

I agree, but look at the reality. Reality is not useless dreaming.

[@jaybee4288]

It sounds good in theory but there’s a very strong argument against it. If you have 10 million+ in wealth, you pay a LOT of tax in this country, a lot more than you and I. These people usually contribute financially, charitably and societally in some ways as well. So they currently are of large value to our country as they already pay a significant amount of tax and we depend on them for trickle down economics. Now by taxing them, they go move to Belgium and you lose all of their tax money and everything else they already give, nothing trickles down and you still don’t get your wealth tax. Depending on the value of the people we lose, it soon becomes a loss to introduce this tax. I’m not against wealth taxes but it has to be applied very carefully, fairly and in line with other countries because as I say if that person just moves their money out of this country you get nothing. Same issue with proposed windfall taxes on businesses now. Always another country will offer them a better deal if our tax is too high.

[@xneurianx]

@@jaybee4288 Trickle down economics is not a concept that anyone in economics takes even remotely seriously. Wealth tax is aimed as assets. A lot of people with £10m plus have that wealth held up in property. If they don't want to pay a wealth tax on it, they have to sell that property. The property, the actual thing with value, is in the UK. You can't just rip up a London town house and move it to Belgium. The asset changes hands and either someone else buys it and continues to pay the wealth tax. It will shift some homes to people actually living in the UK. I don't see being held hostages by multi-millionaires as a good thing. Let them leave if they want to.

[@lonelyone69]

Because a wealth tax makes little to zero sense in the present state of the economy... It couldn't be used for anything it'd be used to pay off the windfall in bonds coming due. Whether you like it or not the present owners of large swathes of essential British industry are foreign countries and private companies. They own the things, buying back the things is where you start you can't demand something of a market if you own non of the market.

[@LeilaLamb]

Ill never vote for this version of the Labour Party either. Kier Hardie wouldn’t recognise it. How can a party formed from unionised workers become this bourgeois, middle class sham?

[@Edmuresrampantmanhood-dp3jd]

Corrupt politicians, same thing happened over here in the US to both the Dems and the Reps (Neither were ever left wing in the traditional sense but they did some good stuff), and in Europe pretty much every old worker party has gone third way.

[@svenkoprek2566]

Congrats to Siân Berry for keeping the seat

[@thecocktailian2091]

My biggest takeaway is I want to go the Green Dragon.

[@LexAngel]

It's had a revamp. I worked and socialised there in the 90s. Then it was rebranded as The Office. So glad it's back to being the traditional pub it's been since 1820 but with a well needed spruce up.

[@LexAngel]

That road is Sydney Street in North Laine, just down from Brighton Station.

[@ClitIsWhatWeAimFor]

Make sure you try their Tiki Fire Rum. It'll knock your socks off! Tis only 75% and tastes like nectar 🤤🥴

[@Mastoloni1]

Green Dragon...had some fun nights in there! From an American who went to Uni of Sussex for his masters, and loved my time in Brighton!

[@DesmoDreams]

I DJ in there 🤓

[@gotenksjr]

I don't feel they will be getting in where I live, my household will be voting Green

[@Pobotrol]

Brighton don't vote Labour, because they have the luxury of not having to fight off the Tories.

[@alexcashin5374]

Yep that’s the point, never a risk of the tories in here

[@mrweasel]

They have moved beyond the crap binary...

[@thecrabmaestro564]

God I wish that was true for the rest of our constituencies

[@m0zkiii]

thats precisely it, yes

[@antell63]

I'm a lifetime labour voter but I'm also concerned the party has gone too far to the right. If I lived in Brighton I'd vote Green. Where I live we need to vote Liberal to keep the Tories out! Social worker made some good points.

[@therealrobertbirchall]

I will be voting lib dem to keep the SNP out.

[@Gary-le7dz]

Tell me corbyn did he keep the Tory’s out on the left

[@hieroglyph321]

Well done... exactly the right choice... Vote strategically people...

[@noahwilliams3718]

I do think Starmer has definitely dragged Labour more to the right but that party really is still the lesser evil than Rees Mogg, Badenoch, Sunak, Braverman and the like. So as much as I would love to vote green, ousting these neofascists is frankly more important than whinging about Corbyn being ejected. We can moan about Corbyn as soon as we’re rid of Sunak and his chums.

[@jaybee4288]

@Gary-le7dz Corbyn was 5 years ago Gary, please grow up and move on 😊

[@mithlond78]

please do more videos on newly gained green seats! Here in Waveney Valley, we’ve overturned a massive tory majority and are following the trend of ousting the blues in East Anglia, a truly great achievement.

[@laytonjones2093]

Fingers crossed for the Greens, hope the retain seat

[@ericaceous1652]

Vote Green

[@BodybuildingSteve]

green is a meme party, maybe when they come out of their stone age views on nuclear energy they will do better

[@glennbateman4483]

​@@BodybuildingSteveshhhh

[@oneoflokis]

💚👍

[@Morning404]

Already sent off my vote last week in the post - I voted GREEN 💚

[@user-qc5mz8fc7x]

Get brown

[@temptemp4174]

Common theme here, I'm a lifetime Labour voter as well. This will be the first time ever where I vote green

[@oneoflokis]

💚👍

[@Redsleather]

God knows why you want these middle class freaks the Greens, anti-British, handwringing apologists whose answer to everything is high tax and no personal freedoms

[@beltingtokra]

As a northerner i find it baffling how 2 constituencies on the south coast can be so different 🤷‍♀️ Coughcoughclactoncooughcough

[@TheDreadfulCurtain]

Clacton is not on the South coast.

[@pjl8119]

Really? You don't understand the difference between middle class places and working class places? Don't know the difference between Altrincham and Whalley Range? Or the Ribble Valley and Burnley? Or Chester and Ellesmere Port? The North has more regional differences within it than the South. Where I live is near North Liverpool, which contains some of the most deprived areas in the UK, just a few miles north is Formby, where Liverpool and Everton footballers live in £5 million mansions. 🤷‍♀️

[@redlightmax]

Clacton has low employment, low income, and low education - prime real estate for Reform.

[@m0zkiii]

grew up in clacton and moved to brighton as an adult, LOL.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Vote Green!

The more people who vote Labour will actually have an element of change much needed. Voting green is voting for Mars and not the Moon.

[@ProfessorChomsky]

A lot of truth in here. We can only wait and see what these people do after Friday. Also, next time I visit Brighton I'm going to We Love Falafal x

[@ellenbooth62]

Vote Green 💚💚💚

[@Redsleather]

Never ❌❌

[@RoofLight00]

I would like to know why labour are thinking of putting black rock in charge of our vital infrastructure? They’re a private company that puts its investors first. They have a record of not delivering value for money and leaving services worse off. Black rock will privatise Britain with our tax money as a sweetener. I have awful memories of PFI and the overspend that cost the public dearly, paying extortionate amounts to private contractors that built, designed and financed public services like prisons, schools and hospitals before handing them back to the state, often in very bad condition. Big finance plan to own our infrastructure outright to generate profit and steady revenue, that really should belong to the public. We should not tolerate the government handing out public services for privatised infrastructure. Black rock has already bought £1.4 billion of rental homes and non performing mortgages from Vistry in the uk alone. This has delivered higher rents and displacement of lower income tenants. There’s already been big pushback against institutional landlords from Copenhagen to Berlin, Dublin and Madrid. The state should be building new public housing not black rock. This investment by black rock also makes it much harder to bring public goods back into public ownership and allows private finance to tighten its grip on the social contract with citizens to become the ultimate arbiter of climate, energy and welfare politics which will have profound distributional, structural and political consequences. Black rock has already lobbied heavily against fossil fuel regulation it is highly likely that our future energy costs could spiral under black rock and could embolden anti green movements that tie into authoritarian and right wing politics. Labour need to answer these questions and I come at this as someone who’s father was a die hard labour supporter in the 70s and 80s. We need to plan creatively for the future and not let private investment suck public money from our trough like pigs. Edit I have really really over simplified some of this so it’s easier to understand, but believe it that black rock are financial investment company behemoth that is not good for uk citizens and not good for humanity. They are parasites that will leave us all much much worse off globally as well as domestically. We should be fighting tooth and nail to stop them. Spread the word…. Thank you!

[@mikesully110]

yeah what happened to the party of the working class... Red tory and Blue tory spot the difference... wonder if I'm colour blind.

[@RoofLight00]

@@mikesully110 I think that all parties in power are put into this position. Some will willingly accept it and some might not have a choice due to the amount of money it will cost us all to dig ourselves out of the hole the Tories have left us in. Labour are looking to plug that gap but asking parasites like black rock to step in and stump up the money is completely the wrong way to go about it. We need other solutions and we should find the money ourselves, BUT we’re looking at a good few trillion pounds to do it. And the money has to come from somewhere, plugging tax loopholes and getting large corporations like google and Amazon to pay their share will help, but it won’t make up the total. So taxes are going to have to rise. We need to have an honest conversation as a country about how to do this. It’ll take a couple of decades of long term planning. Are we ready for such a difficult task? We have to be for all our futures….

[@jaybee4288]

You talk like black rock and co work for the U.K. government. The U.K. government works for black rock mate. Starmer and Streeting take so much money from those guys to give them what they want.

[@RoofLight00]

⁠@@jaybee4288 I didn’t say anything of the sort. Don’t put words in my mouth. Perfectly aware what black rock are and what they do thanks. It’s not just labour, the tories are knee deep in them also. Sajid Javid works for them (centrica, which is a black rock owned company for example) and Jeremy Hunt also. So don’t get tribal, this is a national issue that needs addressing. The tories have left the uk broken and bankrupt after 30+ years of selling off public assets until there’s nothing left. Labour had PFI which was a disaster. We either pay more taxes to sort out the mess or have black rock run your life.

[@xrp589baby]

"you will own nothing and be happy"

[@MrsMelrom]

vote green

[@davedraycott5779]

A wasted vote

[@MS-19]

@@davedraycott5779 As the Greens are now up to 4 seats, it appears not every vote for them was wasted in 2024.

[@davedraycott5779]

@@MS-19 four? That many?😂😂😂Yeah wasted, totally wasted, for anybody with the slightest acquaintance with basic arithmetic.

[@MS-19]

@@davedraycott5779 Given that there were 14 years and 4 elections in which they remained at just 1 seat, this time it's undeniable that the mass of votes built up more favourably than ever. One could make the same argument about Reform UK - again, many votes seemingly wasted but at least seats have been won, unlike in 2019 when (as the Brexit Party) they gained none.

[@davedraycott5779]

@@MS-19 a primary school child has enough arithmetic to tell you that four seats is still only four seats aka not a lot.

[@AllensTrains]

The wily denizens of Brighton compare well to the dim wits interviewed on KZbin in Richmond - Sunak's constituency. Thanks for uploading.

[@MariamPassionfruit]

Cannot wait to vote green 💚💚

[@Redsleather]

Hope you enjoy another 5 years of the Tories

[@robertproctor4609]

Go Greens, let's hope this is a break through election for the greens.

[@o0oLukeo0o0o]

Beyond the green policies I find quite a lot of the greens ethos problematic. We need proportional representation for better governance

[@davidmcculloch8490]

Based on our location and living in an elective dictatorship, I choose to vote tactically. Purely on policies (and with PR) it would be Green all the way.

[@davedraycott5779]

@@davidmcculloch8490 you’re the autocrat for you any system that doesn’t continuously elect your personal choice is an ‘elective dictatorship.’ Deluded self pity, try living in Iran for a taste of an actual (partially) elective dictatorship.

[@ramatgan1]

Life in the UK is depressing.

[@morgan3625]

go home then

[@oneoflokis]

​@@morgan3625Who says the commenter is foreign? 😏

[@jackthehacker05]

@@morgan3625as an Englishman who has lived here all my life, life in the UK is depressing.

[@morgan3625]

@@jackthehacker05 I know

[@hieroglyph321]

​@@morgan3625And you remind me why

[@germansnowman]

If they want to tackle the climate issue, they need to give up their pathological hatred of nuclear energy.

[@7takes]

yeah i've never understood why they hate it so much, idk what they plan on doing in winter when we have no solar power, live off hopes and dreams i guess

[@EarlHare]

Emily Thornberry will likely be my MP, but she wont have my vote. Vote green!

[@mildlydispleased3221]

Why? She's a fantastic MP.

[@biscuit4259]

Sh might not get in check out Owen jones work

[@LeornianCyng]

Go greens 🟢

[@tomwalker9347]

Using the jazz band for the music in the video was really creative!

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

Stop The Tories dot Vote

[@robertmaitland8728]

As long as Brighton electorates vote then nobody will complain. We all have a choice.

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

If i had a green candidate in my constituency, thats who i would vote for.

[@mattyplays836]

I believe there is a Green candidate in every constituency in England this election

[@a_lil_bit_shady]

There's a green candidate in every constituency in England and Wales!!

[@hahanah1463]

Sorry to hear your ret@rded

[@Kokiri_Forester]

If they had a hope in hell of winning in my constituency (no chance with FPTP) I’d consider voting green. There is fair amount in their manifesto I don’t like, buts that’s true of Labour also.

[@oneoflokis]

What in the Green manifesto don't you like, may I ask??

[@Kokiri_Forester]

@@oneoflokis an almost complete lack of support for Defence is the main issue. The only real mention is in removing the nuclear weapons. This is while there is an open land war currently happening to an ally in Europe.

[@oneoflokis]

@Kokiri_Forester Ah I see.. But if there is a land war in Europe, *I don't think we want nor need to join it! * Wars cost lives and money.

[@Kokiri_Forester]

@@oneoflokis some countries don’t give much of a choice really do they? Sitting back and watching aggressors walk over ally’s and just hoping they don’t decide to continue to reach us doesn’t seem the most prudent approach.

[@oneoflokis]

@Kokiri_Forester Russia have never wanted to invade the UK. (I used to have this argument with kids I knew at school in the 1980s! 😏)

[@Roberta-gl2by]

Interestingly articulate bunch

[@TheEnemyWithinEngland]

I see Brighton is a very diverse place and as an openly Jewish man myself it warms my heart. Politicians need to listen to young people and young women in particular. Like the young woman who doesn't want to raise kids in a planet on fire. I mean who does? Women are so smart and should be pushed to the front more. We need to lift women like her up to the push this country forward. More diverse voices, more women's voices. Love from Israel.

[@AG-lz2gg]

She literally believed your country shouldn’t exist and you are a coloniser who should go back to Europe…

[@AG-lz2gg]

She literally believed your country shouldn’t exist and you are a coloniser who should go back to Europe…

[@intoxxy]

Hahaha love the charli xcx brat touch to the green campaign

[@Rose-bq9wv]

I really want to support the Greens but I think they are failing Brighton. There has been an enormous influx of luxury and unaffordable housing being built in the area over the last 5 years. These new builds have starting rents of £1300 for a studio. The city is very run down and yes central government funding cuts have beeen a major issue but so has greens mismanagement of the city.

[@tammyjanjan2892]

As long as they don’t vote Tory or reform, I’m sorry but who really cares? Not saying I’m against the Green Party, but surely the headline “Brighton votes green” is sort of “dog bites man” territory isn’t it?

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@jeangreenfield5993]

Well done Sian ❤💚🌐🩷😊

[@metalface230]

always baffles me how some people place their votes based on conflict that is not taking part in our country and are willing to damn us for the better of some strangers that rest assured do not and would not vote the same way

[@daveradiators8746]

Siân Berry seems brilliant…good luck!

[@daves4026]

Arms sales is the only real export the uk has. Kier needs to help us diversify our countries income streams with other types of manufacturing

[@oneoflokis]

Yes. But will he?

[@peterridd3999]

As if he would...😅

[@user-jc1jl8lc3i]

Arms along with "Money Laundering". And they call them exports! No real industrial manufacturing for export, that's the big issue.

[@oneoflokis]

@@user-jc1jl8lc3i 💯

[@boarbot7829]

Well, its a services economy...

[@minskysfeedbackyianni1302]

Rich people wanting to invest in their own country, is she mad?!🙄😉

[@Rick-xp5sy]

Reform, greens, Lib Dem’s or independents, no more Labour or tories!!!

[@biscuit4259]

Not Reform - jam packed with racists

[@xrp589baby]

its gonna have to be Reform..Lib Dems are spineless jellyfish and still PRO AGENDA

[@crazyman8472]

“What about LibDem?” “Don’t make me laugh.” 😂

[@renaultlover1]

It's a party to watch out for. It will do so much better than the Greens.

[@Dylan-co2cl]

@@renaultlover1 Ah yes,The Lib Dems,the ones who jumped in bed with the Tories and are apart of the reason why the UK is up shit street without a paddle,yeah,they're worth voting for🙄

[@byunbaekhyun2283]

@@renaultlover1 lie

[@birbdoggoguardian]

@@byunbaekhyun2283 Delulu

[@archvaldor]

@@renaultlover1 "It's a party to watch out for" You do know they spent years supporting a tory government which imposed the opposite of their policies?

[@newtidek]

We love green

[@Bananadiva1]

I don't even live in Brighton and I'd still always vote Green over Labour any day!

[@steveharrison76]

I couldn’t fit a cigarette paper in the gap between labour and the Tories right now. They are presenting the same policies, broadly speaking. I’ll be voting green because they stood with striking workers in the NHS and railways, and because they aren’t absolute cucks for libertarian capitalists; both parties love austerity and making sure that kids go hungry. Can’t vote for that sort of psychopathy. Palestine too is a huge issue for me; we create a huge issue in the Middle East and then just supply munitions to an apartheid state that’s turning Gaza into Dresden? Not in my name, pal - I’m hoping the two big parties are absolutely horrified by the vote share that abandons them tomorrow. They both disgust me.

[@1976darby]

as long as its not reform or con vote who you want

[@JasonAtlas]

A sentiment I agree with. My local reform candidate had to be changed because he was a safe guarding issue. Schools don't allow him to speak there anymore.

[@oneoflokis]

​@@JasonAtlasWow!😮

[@peterridd3999]

Oh no, they're all awful. Look at possible Independents.

[@mallardofmodernia8092]

​@@peterridd3999well a lot of the people at the face of the parties are terrible. Weirdly the best candidates who are competent and aren't terrible people are doing the union and committee work at the middle to bottom levels of the party. Seriously watch videos on labour committee boards and interviews with those members of staff. Bright, honest, young, and actually empathetic to the working class and yet they either get locked into their rank or hate the position of Prime Minister, MP etc due to the corruption.

[@Harrier_DuBois]

VOTE GREEN

[@Redsleather]

GET TORY

[@Harrier_DuBois]

@@Redsleather No chance. Anyway, it wouldn't be much different from Starmer so it's better to work toward promoting a 3rd party who will ACTUALLY make a difference.

[@lanagibson4334]

First time ever vote Greens 💚

[@millllbs]

Ahhh damn missed you guys

[@cdcgb1]

Rent in Brighton is insane, it's rivalling london prices. Rich londoners are also moving there in droves and pushing out the creatives who've been there for years and make it extremely hard for young people who've either just graduated or want to move there for the arts scene. Most musicians I know who live there have moved to the outskirts, smaller nearby towns or pay London prices for rent without the high wages you get in the capital.

[@amandamcneill6111]

Plus the genuine natives!

[@cdcgb1]

@@amandamcneill6111 of course, local people are always hit hardest

[@Believe-you-me-]

Have the greens made Brighton affordable to live in?

[@NyeDaniel]

lol

[@NicksGotBeef]

As someone who lives in Peter Kyle’s constituency, he’s been so helpful with my daughter and her schooling issues with her ehcp.

[@davedraycott5779]

‘Safest Green seat’ not difficult. It’s the only Green seat.

[@scottsaunders5087]

Not anymore!

[@davedraycott5779]

@@scottsaunders5087 aye, you can still fit them all in one cab though can’t you. Four, wow. Nationally they still remain a marginal posturing irrelevance.

[@scottsaunders5087]

@@davedraycott5779 I’ll leave you to your negativity I’m glad there is a different voice in parliament however small it may be

[@davedraycott5779]

@@scottsaunders5087 so criticizing the Greens means I’m negative your arrogance is breathtaking and adds to the point I made.

[@scottsaunders5087]

@@davedraycott5779 haha you calling me arrogant hilarious

[@cluelessmoo3695]

I have been here 24 years, and the decline of this city is truly depressing. The centre of town is full of aggressive homeless. Drug dealing is beyond control. wages are terrible, yet property is ridiculous. The Brighton bubble burst many years back. I can't wait to move

[@glennbateman4483]

See ya

[@dmerls8571]

Compared to the rest of the UK, Brighton is doing amazingly well.

[@timothydenyer7749]

no different from most other UK citys then.... never was a fan "back in the day", but been there thrice in six months... nice place, nice people, relatively clean, very cosmopolitan, good shopping, plenty of places to eat...... but Oh the parking fees.... 17 1/2 quid for three hours!

[@mildlydispleased3221]

The Green Council didn't help.

[@Redsleather]

⁠@@dmerls8571you really need to get out more if you think Brighton is ‘doing amazingly well’

[@fintamaria2429]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@joshuamurray-nevill9127]

The Green Council was something of a disaster for Brighton and the condition of the city has deteriorated rather rapidly in recent years. As much as I liked having Lucas in the Commons, it does feel like something needs to change. Rail prices up, rent prices up, shop closures left and right - it might be nice for the rest of the country that Brighton elects a single Green MP - but is that MP going to do anything for the City itself? Or are we going to be getting questions on international arms sales? Important? Sure - but nothing we've not had before with Lucas and Russel-Moyle. It's also noticeable how it's all the very large houses in the Constituency that have 'Vote Green' signs in the window...

You are spot on on everything you say.

[@biscuit4259]

You need to realise that the council’s issues stem from the massive cuts coming from central government!!!! Losing a green MP will make it worse!

[@joshuamurray-nevill9127]

@@biscuit4259 The council made a series of poor decisions on top of existing austerity cuts - it's why in large part local voters recently booted them out. I'm not quite sure how electing a Labour MP (who actually lives locally rather than being flown in) in a newly formed Labour government would hamper efforts to find funding for the city in the future? Brighton needs more homes and better public services right now and the Greens have vocally been against home and infrastructure development across the country.

[@robertsymonds8087]

Wealth tax lol. They won't pay it. They will just leave the country or put somewhere your never going to find it.

[@aml8568]

Austerity is an own-goal, thats what the Tories didn't understand. Less money to those in need means less money in circulation, means less spending, means a smaller economy, means the well dries up. It's like clutching at straws where if you try to over control the situation, you only catch a bit. However, less rigidity on spending in the right places, leads to money circulating, landing for a while here, moving on to there, long enough to do its job to permit spending (and a bit of saving too). We work to earn money in order to live apparently but we seem to have forgotten that money has to go to work too. By not using it, it too becomes unemployed. And like the unemployed, it costs money to not employ it. Strange....

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Never seen so much litter as in Brighton.

[@DermotLehane]

At last,an intelligent electorate.

[@ramunekoi1256]

I gotta move to Brighton, seems like my kind of place

[@ComicAcolyte]

If the greens could get in, in my seat I would seriously consider it. My two most important issues is Scottish independence and the state of our planet.

[@ginalipkin4849]

Still in need of getting an equal representation of Green where it counts, hopefully some strong seats gained

[@mrjwarosa]

Hows your recycling getting on down there

[@slashingbison2503]

Lifelong conservative voter. It coming down for me green and Lib Dem I’ll likely vote green. No policies matter if there is no planet.

[@idio-syncrasy]

Labour don't understand what damage they have done to themselves. They will follow the Tories next.

[@jeandubois8810]

A wealth tax above 10mGBP net worth Yes that makes sens to me. I am French (Well ... I do lots of business in UK and half my family is British) and We have it in France and I have to pay it (The threshold is lower, it's called IFI tax and it only concerns real estate holdings) and I think that it is totally fair. All my wealthy friends are afraid of the IFI and talk about it all the time like we live in a communist dictatorship but common...none of us have fled to Singapore or Abudabi, we all end up paying it and it is only fair. I am bemused by the relatively lower level of solidarity in England.

[@neilbufton8906]

Used to b a fab place but has been run down like loadza seaside places

All these people are well meaning here, but the reality is we need a landslide vote for Labour to change the relentless loss of the past 14 years.

[@biscuit4259]

No we need a left landslide not a Labour landslide

[@mildlydispleased3221]

The Greens lost Brighton Council, they did a terrible job. I used to respect the party but they've become immature, especially over Corbyn.

[@biscuit4259]

You don’t know enough.

[@silviupadure2555]

Definitely Green 💚💚💚

[@commonwunder]

If only we could all live in a bubble... cut off from the reality, of living in a ruthless, American neoliberal Capitalist world.

[@alanconway94]

Now, over to the Count, at the count. 😂

[@geeksworkshop]

No one is talking about, legalising cannabis. Talking away all that money from organized crime and rising taxes. Double win.

[@rhiannaaaaaa]

green party is for legalisation!

[@oneoflokis]

It is a Green policy! (As is UBI.)

[@EmmaVB82]

Good on ya Brighton, I very much hope you do vote in a Green MP again - one of my coworkers says he’s voting tactically and voting Labour purely to oust the Tories, but he clearly doesn’t understand how tactical voting works in a seat the Tories definitely can’t win! 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’ve got another day to change his mind… (I’ve already voted Green by post, even though I’m in Tottenham so a fat lot of good that’ll do!)

[@Fwuzeem]

The Labour guy for Brighton Pav seems really good though, so I'd say it'll be a close one between them. They honestly should have put him in Kemptown and this choice would be easy

[@georgetaylor6082]

True

[@gawaingodwin1601]

💚

[@andyking7621]

I think Tom Gray would/will make an excellent constituency MP but I think having the Green Party represented in Parliament is very important. If Caroline Lucas was still standing in Brighton Pavilion (and that was where I vote) it would be an easy choice. Lucas has been a decent constituency MP and a good parliamentarian. As it is I would be torn between the two choices and would, with some regret, vote for whoever was most likely to win ... ABC. Fortunately I'm in Hove so I can happily give my support to Peter Kyle.

[@bernardorodeiro129]

the only real people left, all the rest are vampires

[@paulwalter2715]

Voting every 5 years? MPs / candidates selected by party central office? Funding for the two main parties largely from corporate interests with no major party committed to reversing the hollowing out of the social realm and the huge shift in wealth from the have-even-less to have-a-lot-and-want-even-more. Both major parties continuing arms sales to Israel and not calling out genocide. Both major parties see more private sector involvement in the nhs. Both major parties incoherent on the climate catastrophe response and looking to load the change costs on the many whilst giving free rein to the few and profiteers from the crisis

[@therealrobertbirchall]

How will a wealth tax work? Who will value the assets to be taxed? How easy is it to hide the beneficial ownership of assets in trusts and offshore?

[@oneoflokis]

Worth a try!

[@o0oLukeo0o0o]

Correct if you look at Elon musk for example he’s allegedly one of the richest men but it’s mainly held in overinflated stock and he can hide most purchases within the accounts of his many companies.

[@andyking7621]

Ideology of opposition v sad realism.

[@najmabegum5789]

Green party 🎉 Independent party 🎉 Workers party 🎉

[@ejhdbegbeidishdj9358]

Workers party HAHAHAHA

[@oneoflokis]

​@@ejhdbegbeidishdj9358What's so funny? Better than Reform.

[@Redsleather]

All ensure a Tory government

[@anncothromoir1018]

Please, please, please, PLEASE don't vote Labour! It will destroy Brighton.

[@LimeyRedneck]

🤠💚

[@anglodoomer5995]

What if Brighton does indeed vote labour

[@oneoflokis]

Then they're idiots!

[@anncothromoir1018]

Then the future for Brighton is very bleak indeed.

[@Redsleather]

@@anncothromoir1018for actual working class people, it couldn’t be bleaker than under the Tories

[@anncothromoir1018]

@@Redsleather It really could. There is nothing in the Labour manifesto that will reduce wealth inequality. It's the same old neoliberal guff. Seriously, if you notice any difference in living standards over the next five years time, let me know.

[@sophiebardell3186]

Green💚💚

[@isabelskelton794]

Vote Reform

[@50brian50]

Green drive around in there old cars going on holiday abroad on gas gusling aircraft what they really mean I won't tell you I've vote tory all my life but this time I'll vote Green to say I've voted

[@ChrisLau90]

So proud of my city 💚

[@sarkybugger5009]

Gotta love the old girl @1:35 with her "Fuck the Tories" button badge.

[@1705louloutte]

Vote Lib Dems

[@stoutishcash8340]

1:25 real

[@yamadakenji4143]

"I'm not really sure Starmer is going to deliver" says one of them. Starmer has already made clear that he is going copy Conservartive policies in so many areas that voting for Labour just means giving the Tories another term (under a different label)

[@meadi6510]

Postal votes should be banne so easily misused.

[@TeijaArbizo]

I'm in awe of the intellectual prowess on display in this thread. It's like being surrounded by beacons of knowledge.🧡

[@nickjones9867]

Accio toe

[@andrina118]

SPAMMER SPAMMER

[@BossySwan]

Lol

[@oneoflokis]

​@@nickjones9867"Accio toe"??

[@Britishempire-hv6rb]

Vote reform 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧