Lets face it, Brighton are just lucky.

[Raleigh Chopper]

Class act on debate last night

That's what made me start the thread, it has been a long time since I have seen a MP speak with that amount of passion and sense whilst holding her cool and her integrity from start to finish, mightily impressive, the type of person that has the ability to convince people to vote for her.
So what is her future? She looked PM material to me, but as good as she is enough people won't vote Green just because she is Green, a great shame, the good ones never seem to prevail.
Same with Chuka Umunna, if he had the balls to stand Labour would probably waltz into No10.

 

[Braggfan]

Yes she is great.
- As long as you dont drive a car and have to rive at 2MPH though the majorty of the city.
- As long as you dont mind the billion and one speed bumps
- As long as you are one of the 3 people a day that use the multi million pund bike lanes and not oen of the tens of thousands sitting in cars where they nicked one of more of the car lanes to create these 'green bike lanes'
- As long as you dont mind waititn and the hundreds of new trafic lights designed to ruin the traffic flow
- As long as you dont mind the recylcing being strewn all over the sreets as they can't get it right
-As long as you dont mind looking out to sea and seeing the monstrosities that are going up and ruining our views
-As long as you dont mind the floods of beggars and homeloess whihc are welcomed with open arms
-As long as you are not one of the people who have to pay for the above

Need I go on?

Charming lady but detestable policies.

Unfortunately that post demonstrates your ignorance of politics, being that your gripes are aimed at an MP and not the local council that introduced the things you're griping about. Common mistake for those who really don't understand politcs, yet scarily are still allowed to vote.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Funnily enough I have a customer who was a Lib Dem MP who lost her seat at the last election and she was in yesterday. I got chatting politics with her and the subject of Caroline Lucas came up. She was of the opinion that she isn't as nice behind closed doors as her public persona would suggest. I don't have a view either way but it was interesting to hear the view of someone who has had dealings with her in a working capacity

 

[nicko31]

That's what made me start the thread, it has been a long time since I have seen a MP speak with that amount of passion and sense whilst holding her cool and her integrity from start to finish, mightily impressive, the type of person that has the ability to convince people to vote for her.
So what is her future? She looked PM material to me, but as good as she is enough people won't vote Green just because she is Green, a great shame, the good ones never seem to prevail.
Same with Chuka Umunna, if he had the balls to stand Labour would probably waltz into No10.

Labour have a lot of good people wasted on the back benches like Chuka, could run rings round May

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

You fancy her, you do

A bit, there is something about her.
A threesome with Leanne Woods as I could hold on to her ears, did you see them last night, they are huge.

 

[ofco8]

She is my MP and would never vote for her as I think Greens are generally potty.

However, as a person she seems ok but just belongs to the wrong party.

 

[Chicken Run]

That is very true, but they both have something about them that makes you like them and listen to them with no pre conceptions that you hate the party they lead, which was pretty much my point in the first place.

I don't like Caroline Lucas, she's a self serving politician riding on the crest of the good wave groovy gang, many parts of the city centre are no go areas now but that doesn't matter as many of her uber middle class luvvies are tucked up safely in their £1,000,000 urban homes at night safe in the knowledge that when they head out to the North Laine on Saturday for their skinny latte's with their free to express themselves brats, they will be safe.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I don't like Caroline Lucas, she's a self serving politician riding on the crest of the good wave groovy gang, many parts of the city centre are no go areas now but that doesn't matter as many of her uber middle class luvvies are tucked up safely in their £1,000,000 urban homes at night safe in the knowledge that when they head out to the North Laine on Saturday for their skinny latte's with their free to express themselves brats, they will be safe.

Blimey!
Brighton has no go areas, really?
You see this is the other side of the coin, she is an MP, so you have to be sceptical, someone has already said she is not so nice behind the scenes.
If she is not as nice or good at her job as she seems to be then she is not the first and certainly not the last, but she is an expert at hiding it for the cameras and public engagements.

 

[Chicken Run]

Blimey!
Brighton has no go areas, really?
You see this is the other side of the coin, she is an MP, so you have to be sceptical, someone has already said she is not so nice behind the scenes.
If she is not as nice or good at her job as she seems to be then she is not the first and certainly not the last, but she is an expert at hiding it for the cameras and public engagements.

Of course she's good at hiding it, she's no different to the rest of the shysters who pretend they care about the constituents, remember party first......

 

[Buzzer]

[emoji38]

I'm not taking the piss, I've no doubt you have good reasons for voting for her, but that's pretty funny. Given that you disagree with her policies, what is it that she does so well that makes you overlook the policies?

I thought I'd already answered that. Apologies if not clear. Her work as a local MP has been nothing short of exemplary. Much the same as when Andrew Bowden was MP for Kemptown, he was well-respected across the political spectrum for the amount of work he did for his local constituents. I think Caroline Lucas is even better. I've had friends who have had reason to contact her for advice and even though it was outsider her remit, she made sure that they got the right help from the right people and even followed up on it.

You can't blame Brighton's homeless problem or scruffiness or drugs problems or the state of the seafront (all issues that I think are getting worse) on her, those are local council issues and the Greens were bloody awful when they were in charge here. Likewise, I think her party would be bloody awful if they ran the UK but they won't and I am not voting for her party, I'm voting for her as a local MP. I don't see any contradictions in voting for her despite her policies when there's very little from any party to make me want to vote for them.

I'd also add that I think UK politics and parliament are better places with wider representation and for people like her in it. Regardless of your views, I think you'd have to admit that she votes with her conscience, she's in it for the right reasons and she's trustworthy. All commodities in rare supply with politicians nowadays.

 

[Athelwulf]

You can say that again. If Forestieri hadn't missed that penalty at Brighton...

 

[albion534]

I love when she's on camera whenever there is 1 present, says we should all help refugees. Yet discloses how much property she has and won't let them stay there.


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[dejavuatbtn]

Party politics aside, I quite like our three MPs. It's a pity we can't replace the council with them, as between them they might just do OK.

 

[worthingseagull123]

Does she now own a lot of property, but proclaims herself to be a socialist?

Does she not want people to stop flying, but then complains that a Pakistan Environmentalist cannot get a visa to fly over for a 3 day conference?

She seems something of a hypocrite to me.

 

[worthingseagull123]

Funnily enough I have a customer who was a Lib Dem MP who lost her seat at the last election and she was in yesterday. I got chatting politics with her and the subject of Caroline Lucas came up. She was of the opinion that she isn't as nice behind closed doors as her public persona would suggest. I don't have a view either way but it was interesting to hear the view of someone who has had dealings with her in a working capacity

Having dealt with her through work, she was probably the rudest, most obnoxious MP I have ever dealt with. Claire Short came a close second.

 

[TSB]

Yes she is great.
- As long as you dont drive a car and have to rive at 2MPH though the majorty of the city.
- As long as you dont mind the billion and one speed bumps
- As long as you are one of the 3 people a day that use the multi million pund bike lanes and not oen of the tens of thousands sitting in cars where they nicked one of more of the car lanes to create these 'green bike lanes'
- As long as you dont mind waititn and the hundreds of new trafic lights designed to ruin the traffic flow
- As long as you dont mind the recylcing being strewn all over the sreets as they can't get it right
-As long as you dont mind looking out to sea and seeing the monstrosities that are going up and ruining our views
-As long as you dont mind the floods of beggars and homeloess whihc are welcomed with open arms
-As long as you are not one of the people who have to pay for the above

Need I go on?

Charming lady but detestable policies.

You mean a list of things she had nothing to do with and come entirely under the council purview?
Righto. Carry on.

I see that I was beaten to the punch twice on this.

Pretty depressing that people don't know what they are voting for.