And I had a conversation with him in Dick's Bar before the Burnley game, shortly after he had been arrested up a tree at the Bexhill-Hastings road protest.
I'm slightly the opposite as usually I have no problem with trees being chopped down for road developments. As the population in Sussex grows we desperately need to improve the transport infrastructure and that sadly means trees being felled. The difference here is that this is an elm, and if you want to know how many mature elms are left in Western Europe, well count all the ones in Brighton and Hove, add a few and you pretty much arrive at the total. Even so I would still be in favour of its removal (as it's not one of the great elms like we have in Preston Park or at the Level) if I had confidence that the scheme was going to improve Seven Dials. The jury's still out on that; making things worse for cars and better for cyclists and pedestrians does not count as an 'improvement', merely a 'change' - and I speak as someone who's main way of getting round Brighton is by walking.
