The city that loves to be different (and it's a problem for Labour) 

Three seats not going to Labour does not constitute a problem if they’re going to the Greens. Brighton is the furthest thing from a „problem for Labour“ right now.

Read the title and I automatically thought "Brighton".

As someone who lives in Brighton, I’d be shocked if Sian lost the seat, every street in my area has at least one “Vote Green” sign in a window. I’ve not seen a single Labour sign, even if they have flooded my letterbox with leaflets. People are proud to vote green, proud to actually stand for something. Sian is going to win and I’m looking forward to it, she seems like such a great voice for the city and a presence desperately needed in the house of commons.

I lived in Brighton for years. It was the worst experience of living in the UK I ever had. As a foreigner most of us were employed for peanuts while rich entrepreneur types from the South held business positions exploiting the labour market. The poorer were pushed out by the council while making way for money from London and the people who helped develop the culture of Brighton were replaced by aloof middle class robots .The streets are always dirty and services deteriorated. I left for Portugal , the poorest country in Western Europe. Because if I’m going to have a shit life I may as well do it somewhere I can afford to buy food with the job I have. After 13 years abroad in a much poorer location I managed to improve my life and circumstances ten fold. After this I started a business in the North of England. I was always told in Brighton that Liverpool is grim and crime ridden and cold etc etc….. The difference was amazing , the standard of living was much better , people are much friendlier and down to earth while the cost of living is far more worthwhile and the city and surrounding areas far cleaner . We travel to Brighton once or twice a year and to be honest it’s not a very nice looking place. You can see that although the upper classes have money , that something is just not right. Everything looks run down and dirty with so many empty shops broken windows . The effects of having money still make life harder for everyone to be able to survive and it feels like a dog eat dog environment. My daughter as a child and now a young adult sees it the same way and has asked why it’s like this. When we first moved up North she used to say it was boring now she can see the difference and prefers where we are. I moved to Brighton under the Tories and it was a grim grey desperate place . I watched it change under labour and gentrify . After leaving it went green and that represents the spirit of Brighton and there’s nothing wrong with that. However as a city …. I can’t say the greens have done anything for the working population and at this point we all need to vote anything other Tory or Labour.

The Greens winning a seat is not a problem for Labour. It helps shift the Overton window in the right (left) direction. Labour have the burden of needing to appeal to the masses to get elected. If they're not in power, no progressive policies can be implemented, no matter how many they might want to or how good they might be.

we need proportional representation.

If “I’m not like other girls” was a city 😅

Only been to Brighton once but loved the place. Also refreshing to see sane debates for and against and even the more maverick types not being anywhere near as toxic as a lot of the country is at the moment. Keep doing you, Brighton!

Living in a red wall city I come back from Brighton saying that's it's 50 years ahead of where I live. Attitudes will can't afford to sideline any longer.

Good for the Greens and hope that they gain more seats. The north American woman who has swallowed the narrative of the Tory press. London on sea

Its nothing to do with being cool. Caroline Lucas was a fantastic MP and when I studied there, she was seen and heard on my campus and in the city. Not to be said for the MP in my Tory hometown with a dying high street and high rent prices and poor public infrastructure.

Brighton may be different, but it looks VERY middle class 😂

I can't juggle and ride unicycle so have moved to eastbourne 😂😂😂😂

I dont know how you can say youre a socialist but voting labour under its current leadership...

I'm hoping that the Green Party wont only hold Brighton Pavilion, but gain Bristol Central, Waveney Valley and North Hereford . Id also like to see elections by PR rather than this corrupt first past the post system

If you want to make someone really miserable tell them Brighton beach makes for a good walk.

Aussie here. In my country young people are increasingly being drawn to the Greens and independents because the so called progressive party in Australia, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has become a very weak, Tame, political organisation. The ALP is in all seriousness more conservative than the defacto conservative party in Australia, the Liberal Party. I have been following the UK election it sounds like Labour doesn't have much to offer young people. Just another flavour of Conservative.

There needs to be at least one voice speaking up for the environment in parliament, thank you Brighton for giving us one The same as how we need Corbin to win so we can have at least one voice of a moral conscience in parliament

Wildly optimistic to imagine Labour is going to be merely "diluted"

Brighton people seem to be a bit up themselves.

Best place to live….from someone who is from Brixton but been here for 24 years. Best move I ever made

It’s like you found the least interesting people in Brighton to interview. Middle class homeowners stuck in their Guardian reader echo chamber.

the monster raving luny guy just sums up how little people understand politics

I loved it when I worked in Brighton at Juice 107.2. I met so many amazing people! Incredible place! Brighton is terrific!

Vote Green 💚

Fully expected this to be about Bristol, not Brighton. Brighton's been progressive / Green for donkey's

It's not 'too hip for Labour'. People don't want to vote for a party with shit policies

What’s with all the baseball caps, even indoors? 🤔

Such intelligent comments compared to most vox pop pieces. Brighton obviously well educated which is why they're more progressive.

Brighton, we may disagree but I enjoy how your mere existence drives the right wing up the wall!

Great video ! Went brighton uni and miss the little green oasis ! presenter is great too!

the theme music is pure fire please release x

Are you up muesli mountain?😂

“…the Labour guy’s very champagne…” 😂 couldn’t have put it better! Labour are no better than the Tories under Starmer. In fact they maybe worse. Starmer and his candidates have taken more gratuities from corporate lobbyists than any Labour leaders and MPs in living memory! He’s going to continue with the damaging austerity practice and is offering no hope or change whatsoever, despite what was printed on the front of his manifesto. Voting for Labour now would be like voting for the Tory party in 1987. Even John Major thinks the Labour Party aren’t what they used to be and he’s been equally critical of his own party, the Tories! Just because the Tories have lurched so far to the right doesn’t mean Labour should lurch right too. Vote Independent. Vote SNP (depending on where you are). Vote Green. Vote anyone but the Tories or Labour.

Brighton is generally quite detached from reality just like the Green Party

Environmentalist against a bike lane lol

Is it because it's just the concentration of "alternative" types who have migrated there from the tory hinterlands of the South East?

Its not a problem for most of Labor, for most of the membership this sort of competition is represents hope for the Leadership to be fored backbinto being a labor party again.

It's like a middle class wannabe Liverpool. The true independent republic

My town (Margate - the new Brighton, thanks to Time Out etc) is now full of these poncey middle-class hipster types. Luckily for Labour, the prospective MP that's been parachuted in has recently, like a lot of them, come from Hackney, so she's a shoe-in.

The greens have specifically said they know they aren’t going to win the general election but what they hope to achieve is that they are able to hold Labour to account. That isn’t trouble for Labour, that is holding them to their word which is a good thing after 14 years of the Tories riding roughshod in this country without being held to account for anything they have done. If Sian gets in, brilliant, keep going, just make sure this time the bin collectors are paid so that there isn’t another strike because that was extremely unpleasant.

1:05 welcome to brighton babes

Brighton for PM!

Interviewing an American lmao

Track id?

Maybe i have missed the point here, you seem to have missed completely the largest residential groups in this constituency, theres a lot of big estates around Brighton and Hove , you seem to have missed them completely,, seems to be a common thread across media ,, labour will do nothing different to Tories, same groups pulling the strings😢😢😢

The ladies speaking on their front door steps are archetypal Groaniad readers

If not being able to text on buses is one of your main issues then you’re not in the real world mate , I’m guessing that they didn’t interview anyone living on the street then ?

It’s not a la carte. Vote Labour

Clickbaity title. It’s not a problem for Labour at all, it’s 1 seat. Hove (part of the same city of Brighton&Hove) is right next door with a prominent Labour MP. If it ever gets to the point where Labour’s majority is down to 1 seat, even then the main problem isn’t 1 Green seat.

Spoiler: not cool, just rich

Glad the Monster Raving Looney Party supporter has found his political home. Also the woman at 9:20 ish seems to be totally incoherent. Saying she’s a teacher so she supports Labour (good luck), she likes Caroline Lucas but would never have voted for her. Criticises Sian Berry for not being local when Lucas was not local either. Ridiculous.

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Good to see the people of Brighton keeping it Green. 🥬🥬🥬 The rents have gone insane here we have lost a lot of good people because of austerity and the cost of living crisis. People in Brighton care about each other and the community and acceptance of differences whilst believing in a greener future and taxing those with over 10 million a bit more. Fuck the Tories, drive Labour to the left 🎉

as an Australian who lives in Brighton and votes for the Australian greens, I really hope the greens don't get in the city is a mess a lot of homelessness, rubbish everywhere and just lack of care around Brighton.

I have never disliked so many people so quickly in all my life.

Stop the tories DOT vote

When the greens ran the council they were appalling, especially when it came to emptying bins. They just couldn’t handle it. The greens definitely shouldn’t be elected in any shape or form.

I'm way to the left of Labour.

Problem is the greens barely collect the bins, that sounds pretty bad for the environment leaving literal shit on the pavement

Yup the Greens were really vocal about Nordstream.!! really vocal about Ukraine war and all the climate impact of the American industrial military complex and the 60 billion UK contribution. NOT … Incredible to listen to the tweeness and the chuckles.

Didn't you spot rabid right winger Paul Thorpe .

Sadly for the media, there's no jeopardy in the coming election. Labour will win, and "problems" like this will be the difference between having a 200 seat majority and a 198 seat majority. It doesn't matter. What matters is getting rid of the Tories, and that's been a safe bet since even before Partygate, Truss, and Sunak made it a certainty, which it now has been for years.

Any chance of picking some intelligent people? Or would that reduce your views? Journalism or …….?

Greens and Lib Dems need to unite the left and be one party.

Brighton Greens: Smug rich people living in uninsulated bungaroosh houses with single glazed sash windows, bleating on about climate change. If you care that much about the environment, why not sell your ridiculously expensive house and move to a brand new eco house? Oh no, you won't do that as it will likely involve moving away from the trendy bars. Screaming hypocrisy. It's people like this that make others disillusioned and fed up of climate change politics. 🙄

A fool’s paradise.

Completely oblivious to how skint everyone is. The upper middle class are so out of touch. This Is pathetic. The green tax would starve millions. The stench of ' we know best' is horrid

Hippie

Boomer larpers

It's like a lefty asylum 😂

Bolox

The greens will save Gaza,hilarious.

Just vote reform on Thursday

Why the heck was she email Sian about Gaza when we should be focusing on BRITISH politics. I swear some people still think it’s the 90s when Britain actually mattered on a political stage but it just not the case, everyone hates us and no one cares what we think.

Being left wing is cringe.

The wokest place in Britain

To Hip for Labour..........seriously. Well good luck with the Tories for another 5 year .......Cool and Fools

Vote Reform UK, you KNOW it makes sense.🙂

Thought it'd be Bristol, kicking myself, the other champagne socialist paradise of the south