The Vote: who would you vote for today?
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Green
I would vote Green because they are the only party who are working for justice and fairness for all, and a sustainable global future for this and the next generation.
The Green party! I’m very impressed with what they have achieved in the short time they have been the administration, especially considering the difficult financial circumstances.
I would vote for the Conservatives. I think the Green pary are slowly ruining this city i was born in. They are implementing a number of transformational projects that will hugely impact negatively on living standards. These projects have been at a huge cost to local taxpayers and are often opposed by almost half of the city. Cycle lanes, 20mph zones, changes to traffic lights – all leading to more congestion and more traffic. The Old Shoreham road cycle lane which very few cyclists use, which is now totally dangerous and was a huge cost and so slow to deliver is a shining example of how the Greens do not have any common sense. Brighton is a no go area now for cars. Noisy and congested. Where such money could have been better spent is on services such as the King Alfred Centre.
The Greens are slowly ruining this town. I was born here and now thinking about moving. They have a big brother almost totalitarian rule, making big changes that are irreversable. Wasting huge sums of money, increasing traffic making it almost impossible to drive around the city for the benefit of a few cyclists. The town is packed with buses – God knows how many 700’s I see passing Church Road in a 20min window – they seem want to increase taxes at a time of massive economic hardship! Greens are all for minorities without thinking what the overwhelming majority wants.
I voted for the Green Party last time as I thought they would be best for improving the look and feel of this city I love so much. How wrong was I. Traffic, congestion, huge spending wastes, nothing done with leisure facilities, these 5 man taxi vans so uncomfortable they have brought in, I will now vote for labour. I really am appalled with the greens, they have ruined Brighton.
I came to Brighton a few years back looking for work and a place to bring up my children. With the Green led council I feel like I’m living in a prison. You cannot drive anywhere because of the traffic Jams caused by bike lanes, changes to traffic lights, changes to pedestrian crossing and continuous roadworks. You cannot park anywhere because it’s so expensive. I tired the buses but they are so slow stuck in traffic and so expensive. In London they have the oyster card with top up, people get on quick and it’s much cheaper than paying cash. Now they want to make all taxis wheelchair accessible – a hard horrible ride for everyone else. I will almost certainly vote for labour who are more sensible and in touch with the people.
I came to Brighton because it was gay friendly, because the Greens were prominent trying to push a view that I believed in. How niaive I was. The Greens do not listen. Jason kitcat is not from brighton.i now realise they chose Brighton as somewhere ripe to get their anti-freedom policies. They haven’t got a clue how to run a town. When I say anti-freedom you may be surprised, given they lean to the left wing. But the reality is they don’t promote self awareness, personal career, people who live by the rules and get on with things. They want to tax us emote, they want to take away our freedom and control us, the sooner they are out the better.
I would vote the greens out. They are in total disarray and unfit to govern this wonderful city. Highlighted by their recent attempt to out their leader with the support of the other rival parties. They have no common sense. No one wants nor can easily drive around on A roads at 20mph. Cars werent designed for that. People arent used to it. It’s terribly difficult, produces more emissions at lower gears and doesn’t not make the roads safer. I dont agree with any of their policies at all. They just make life a lot harder and Brighton a lot more difficult to live in for the average hard working person.
I will vote conservative – sensible, good with money, well experienced at local and national governement, politically savvy, they’re for the honest, hard-working middle class.
Why would any sane person vote for the Greens? The city is gridlocked, stinks of uncollected rubbish, is losing trade to others, is full of grungy hippies and druggies, is full or rules and regulations and is losing its prestige fast. All this caused by the greens social experimenting. They dont listen to people (ignored their own scrutiny panel who advised to at least look at excluding A and some B roads from 20mph scheme). I’ll vote conservative… for nothing more than common sense.
I am a postgrad at Sussex Uni – living in Hanover. we were heavily canvassed by the greens in the last local elections, as were almost everyone I knew at Uni. The other parties were absent. They seemed to have some pretty good ideas – social welfare and sustainability came across as 2 strong policies. I voted for them as did most of my other friends. I really regret that decision looking at what damage they are causing and what I can only assume is their utter contempt for us students. They treat everyone like babies, they think people are incapable of making a right decision, they don’t think we can drive sensibly, cross the road safely etc etc.. they push their policies through without proper consultation, regardless of what we want. I really don’t like them and will now be voting conservative who let people make up their own minds on how they want to live and drive around a city.
Labour! Only party for the hard working binmen of this city… Greens have ruined it, a lot of cleaning up to do!!
Conservative, very impressed with how they have stood up to some of the terrible green policies and manged to block them. Policies that take money from the hard working average family and that have damaged this city and made it so dirty and average.
UKIP! For fairness, common sense, for a party that treats us as grown ups, that allows us freedom to make a right decision on how fast to drive around town, freedom to make a decision to be able to cross the road without 5 min green man lights, a party that wouldnt cut binmen salaries and turn the city into a sewer infested hell!
i would vote conservative. They have fair policies that make common sense to the normal bloke on the street that works hard for his family and doesn’t want to give his money away to people that can’t be bothered to work.
Conservatives are the only sane persons choice. Greens treat us with contempt.. Don’t want us to make our own free choices.. Labour.. Hmm.. Screwed our money away big time… UKIP.. No… BNP.. Even more no… Liberals… Who?
Out out out with the greens! Support the low paid! Greens out! Labour in!
The Greens try to control our very thought our every move but they will not succeed. I will be voting Conservative, they are fair with a commonsense approach to local politics and government.
I don’t know who I would vote for but I know who I wouldn’t – Greens. What a disaster. They could have done so much for this city – food composting schemes, doubling the number of recycling collections but halving the number of household waste collections, whilst paying the hard-working people who do such collections more, not less. As a driver, I feel as if they are trying to force me out of the town I grew up in and which I chose to move back to 13 years ago. I am now expected to pay a fortune for a parking permit which won’t guarantee me a space, in a street where spaces have now been taken away to provide bicycle parking and motorbike parking. I am expected to drive at the un-ecological speed of 20mph anywhere I want to go. My bus journey to work now takes 10 minutes longer because of the new speed limit, meaning I now have to catch an earlier bus. The obscene amount of money spent on cycle lanes and changes to road crossings has been completely pointless.
I once considered myself a Green supporter and would not have believed anyone who said that I would now be considering voting for anyone else. But well done, Green Party, you have managed to alienate a lot of your supporters in the last couple of years and I really can’t see you getting back in.