MP causes residents of town major embarrasment on BBC TV.

[Southover Street Seagull]

As far as I am aware no one has answered Lord Bracknell's question as to whether there are actually any canteens in the various buildings used by Brighton and Hove Council around the city. If there are none then how can this idea be enforced anyway? Is there any proof that if there are canteens that people can't bring in their own packed lunch containing meat products on a Monday?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

There are a lot of wierdo's on this board, but you are by far the most mental.

If they offered you a beef sausage would that not be a dictatorship?

Different meat same gravey! (See what I did there)

 

[BadFish]

Maybe you should go & picket the Town Hall of a monday with that long line of pork butchers? Better not miss work too often though work eh - otherwise you'll all end with your valuables in HOCK.

i think he should definitely TROTTER down their and make his feelings known. Come on CHOP CHOP!

 

[The Large One]

H B & B is an easy target on here and I disagree with a lot of what he says.

In this instance I agree completely with him. I love Brighton dearly and I always have done. I really object to ANY political party using my city as a propaganda exercise. It hurts me to say it, but I'm glad I moved to London last year.

I'm just wondering if you would give the same level of accusation to St Alban's City Council, which also intends to adopt Meat-Free Monday?

That council is Conservative / Lib Dem-run.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

He's just scratching around for arguments now.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

I'm just wondering if you would give the same level of accusation to St Alban's City Council, which also intends to adopt Meat-Free Monday?

That council is Conservative / Lib Dem-run.

And still no answer to another poster's question on here as to why there was no problem when his child's school had meat free Mondays under the previous Tory council.

 

[bhaexpress]

I think his beef makes him look pig headed, if he worked for Brighton Council he'd deserve the chop, no doubt he feels that he should be allowed to mince about in their canteen uttering rash(er) statements and generally making a pig's ear of things however I think he'd be too cowed to carry on with his bullshit.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Yeah. I kind of guessed that seeing as that was the definition you gave for it. So you think Communism is democratic then? I'm just puzzled by the line about it dissolving other forms of democratic thought. I don't really want to get into a massive debate on it but I think Marx was all for dictatorship by the proles.

Anyhow, next time the Tories try to fight this constituency can you do me a favour and stay at home please? Ta!

I wonder if any of these people who lived under Communism had democratic thoughts?

Andrei Sakharov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Isayevich_Solzhenitsyn

 

[Chicken Run]

H B & B is an easy target on here and I disagree with a lot of what he says.

In this instance I agree completely with him. I love Brighton dearly and I always have done. I really object to ANY political party using my city as a propaganda exercise. It hurts me to say it, but I'm glad I moved to London last year.

Ditto but swap London to Burgess Hill, still the educated progressives will love all this bollox.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Brighton schools go meat-free for spring term... and longer with your help - News

This was posted on the website on the 22nd March, at least a month before the local elections and when we had a Tory administration running Brighton and Hove Council. Have the Conservatives all of a sudden become loony left communists?

 

[Twinkle Toes]

i think he should definitely TROTTER down their and make his feelings known. Come on CHOP CHOP!

I'm not sure he will tbh. He's bound to feel rather HAMSTRUNG with all this grief he's getting on here.

 

[8ace]

Brighton schools go meat-free for spring term... and longer with your help - News

This was posted on the website on the 22nd March, at least a month before the local elections and when we had a Tory administration running Brighton and Hove Council. Have the Conservatives all of a sudden become loony left communists?

Already been mentioned (and ignored).

My kids' school had meat-free Mondays throughout last term - and that was when the Tories ran the council.

I don't understand why HB&B gets on his high horse about meat-free days when it's suggested by the Greens but doesn't raise any objections when it happens under the Tories?

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Already been mentioned (and ignored).

I know, that's why I put the link in with the post.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Different meat same gravey! (See what I did there)

Not sure, was it spelling gravy wrong?

 

[Danny-Boy]

It is the start of the Greens social organsing. This will soon spread over Brighton & Hove. All economic and social activity will be closly monitored and manipulated by the Greens.

Well we'll soon be able to compare the effects of a Green Admin in Brighton with a new Tory Admin is Seaford after 8 years of LD control.

Except -oh the new Tory leader is being prosecuted for drunken driving next week, the offence committed one day before he was (re)-elected.

And his fellow Councillor in his ward is being charged, for the second time in a matter of weeks, with offences against the police.

It will be interesting to see if activity around these offences, including media publicity, " will be closly (sic) monitored and manipulated" by H B and B's Party supporters.

 

[Common as Mook]

I'm just wondering if you would give the same level of accusation to St Alban's City Council, which also intends to adopt Meat-Free Monday?

That council is Conservative / Lib Dem-run.

It's got naff all to do with meat-free Mondays specifically. My point is on a much wider issue; it hurts because I feel that the City is being used.

I love Brighton. I love that it is a free thinking and progressive city. I hate the fact that a political party has latched on to it to promote it's own gains.

People can vote for who they want and good luck to them. I just happen to think they've been duped.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Oh rubbish. She had no idea to what he was referring. She has somehow managed to position herself in Brighton to enhance her ability to spout her radical leftie claptrap. Could have just as easily have been Norwich.

She positioned herself in Brighton to get elected. I think you'll find she is not the only MP that has found a constituency with the best chance of getting themselves elected. She won a majority vote and therefore is entitled to spout her 'radical leftie claptrap' with which she campaigned on.

As others have said, the 'meat free Monday' idea has been adopted by local authorities of various political leadership up and down the country. This is where your argument falls flat on your face. In fact in this thread alone you seem to have very few people agreeing with you, but then, no change there....

 

[The Large One]

It's got naff all to do with meat-free Mondays specifically. My point is on a much wider issue; it hurts because I feel that the City is being used.

I love Brighton. I love that it is a free thinking and progressive city. I hate the fact that a political party has latched on to it to promote it's own gains.

People can vote for who they want and good luck to them. I just happen to think they've been duped.

But as has been mentioned on here several times, the Greens didn't introduce it into Brighton - the Tories did.

It just so happens that the Greens also support it. Apart from that, there's little political mileage to be gained.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I was shocked to read that Moe Tucker, drummer with the Velvet Underground is a card-carrying member of the Tea Party. How's that work then - going from the most dissolute band of wasters and caners to loony wing of the Republican Party?

Got to be all those drugs she took, surely.

I went to a Tea Party event a month ago. At times it was quite surreal and scary. There was a lot of thinly disguised racism in the speechs, a lot of jocks, disturbing banners from the Rifle Association nutters, misspelt placards (got some ace photos) and a punch up between some students and some god fearing loony in shorts and lace up boots who over turned their table of left leaning literature and kept screaming "Jesus would have flipped the table" and "we're this far from socialism" as he slammed his fore finger and thumb together.

It was weird.

 

[Bold Seagull]

It's got naff all to do with meat-free Mondays specifically. My point is on a much wider issue; it hurts because I feel that the City is being used.

I love Brighton. I love that it is a free thinking and progressive city. I hate the fact that a political party has latched on to it to promote it's own gains.

People can vote for who they want and good luck to them. I just happen to think they've been duped.

So you're saying the voters of Brighton are stupid enough to be duped by a party that compared to the other main parties, has a very clear manifesto, is very clear about what it stands for, and what it would like to achieve.

The only voters that have been duped recently are the Lib Dems, who in general terms voted for the alternative left of centre party to Labour, and found out their vote was actually right of centre.

The Green party has only 'latched' onto Brighton in your words because they are popular here - there is support for them, it's called democracy. If the people of Brighton didn't like it, they wouldn't vote for them, in both the recent local elections and Lucas' own success would suggest you hold a minority view with regard to the Green's presence in this city.