Why Brighton won't vote Labour 

I wish Green would get as much press as Reform...mainstream media seems to love divisive rhetoric as much as social media but that isnt what society needs or even wants. Most of us would like to get on with each other. Green have integrity but they also gave commob sense policies, fairer tax and honest rhetoric that if we want a better nhs and school system then we need more tax.

Life long Labour voter, living in Brighton Kemptown, we had a decent Labour MP, who was booted out and a new guy parachuted in. I'll be voting Green.

The Green wealth tax is the most sensible thing I have seen or heard of in any of the manifestos.

Ill never vote for this version of the Labour Party either. Kier Hardie wouldn’t recognise it. How can a party formed from unionised workers become this bourgeois, middle class sham?

Congrats to Siân Berry for keeping the seat

My biggest takeaway is I want to go the Green Dragon.

Brighton don't vote Labour, because they have the luxury of not having to fight off the Tories.

please do more videos on newly gained green seats! Here in Waveney Valley, we’ve overturned a massive tory majority and are following the trend of ousting the blues in East Anglia, a truly great achievement.

I don't feel they will be getting in where I live, my household will be voting Green

Fingers crossed for the Greens, hope the retain seat

I'm a lifetime labour voter but I'm also concerned the party has gone too far to the right. If I lived in Brighton I'd vote Green. Where I live we need to vote Liberal to keep the Tories out! Social worker made some good points.

A lot of truth in here. We can only wait and see what these people do after Friday. Also, next time I visit Brighton I'm going to We Love Falafal x

Common theme here, I'm a lifetime Labour voter as well. This will be the first time ever where I vote green

As a northerner i find it baffling how 2 constituencies on the south coast can be so different 🤷‍♀️ Coughcoughclactoncooughcough

The wily denizens of Brighton compare well to the dim wits interviewed on RU-vid in Richmond - Sunak's constituency. Thanks for uploading.

Vote Green

Interestingly articulate bunch

Using the jazz band for the music in the video was really creative!

Go Greens, let's hope this is a break through election for the greens.

I don't even live in Brighton and I'd still always vote Green over Labour any day!

I would like to know why labour are thinking of putting black rock in charge of our vital infrastructure? They’re a private company that puts its investors first. They have a record of not delivering value for money and leaving services worse off. Black rock will privatise Britain with our tax money as a sweetener. I have awful memories of PFI and the overspend that cost the public dearly, paying extortionate amounts to private contractors that built, designed and financed public services like prisons, schools and hospitals before handing them back to the state, often in very bad condition. Big finance plan to own our infrastructure outright to generate profit and steady revenue, that really should belong to the public. We should not tolerate the government handing out public services for privatised infrastructure. Black rock has already bought £1.4 billion of rental homes and non performing mortgages from Vistry in the uk alone. This has delivered higher rents and displacement of lower income tenants. There’s already been big pushback against institutional landlords from Copenhagen to Berlin, Dublin and Madrid. The state should be building new public housing not black rock. This investment by black rock also makes it much harder to bring public goods back into public ownership and allows private finance to tighten its grip on the social contract with citizens to become the ultimate arbiter of climate, energy and welfare politics which will have profound distributional, structural and political consequences. Black rock has already lobbied heavily against fossil fuel regulation it is highly likely that our future energy costs could spiral under black rock and could embolden anti green movements that tie into authoritarian and right wing politics. Labour need to answer these questions and I come at this as someone who’s father was a die hard labour supporter in the 70s and 80s. We need to plan creatively for the future and not let private investment suck public money from our trough like pigs. Edit I have really really over simplified some of this so it’s easier to understand, but believe it that black rock are financial investment company behemoth that is not good for uk citizens and not good for humanity. They are parasites that will leave us all much much worse off globally as well as domestically. We should be fighting tooth and nail to stop them. Spread the word…. Thank you!

Hahaha love the charli xcx brat touch to the green campaign

Beyond the green policies I find quite a lot of the greens ethos problematic. We need proportional representation for better governance

“What about LibDem?” “Don’t make me laugh.” 😂

Siân Berry seems brilliant…good luck!

If they want to tackle the climate issue, they need to give up their pathological hatred of nuclear energy.

Never seen so much litter as in Brighton.

Life in the UK is depressing.

Based on our location and living in an elective dictatorship, I choose to vote tactically. Purely on policies (and with PR) it would be Green all the way.

Well done Sian ❤💚🌐🩷😊

As long as Brighton electorates vote then nobody will complain. We all have a choice.

Vote Green 💚💚💚

Vote Green!

Cannot wait to vote green 💚💚

I see Brighton is a very diverse place and as an openly Jewish man myself it warms my heart. Politicians need to listen to young people and young women in particular. Like the young woman who doesn't want to raise kids in a planet on fire. I mean who does? Women are so smart and should be pushed to the front more. We need to lift women like her up to the push this country forward. More diverse voices, more women's voices. Love from Israel.

If they had a hope in hell of winning in my constituency (no chance with FPTP) I’d consider voting green. There is fair amount in their manifesto I don’t like, buts that’s true of Labour also.

Reform, greens, Lib Dem’s or independents, no more Labour or tories!!!

always baffles me how some people place their votes based on conflict that is not taking part in our country and are willing to damn us for the better of some strangers that rest assured do not and would not vote the same way

Arms sales is the only real export the uk has. Kier needs to help us diversify our countries income streams with other types of manufacturing

Emily Thornberry will likely be my MP, but she wont have my vote. Vote green!

vote green

If i had a green candidate in my constituency, thats who i would vote for.

Thanks for posting

Rich people wanting to invest in their own country, is she mad?!🙄😉

I really want to support the Greens but I think they are failing Brighton. There has been an enormous influx of luxury and unaffordable housing being built in the area over the last 5 years. These new builds have starting rents of £1300 for a studio. The city is very run down and yes central government funding cuts have beeen a major issue but so has greens mismanagement of the city.

Go greens 🟢

I couldn’t fit a cigarette paper in the gap between labour and the Tories right now. They are presenting the same policies, broadly speaking. I’ll be voting green because they stood with striking workers in the NHS and railways, and because they aren’t absolute cucks for libertarian capitalists; both parties love austerity and making sure that kids go hungry. Can’t vote for that sort of psychopathy. Palestine too is a huge issue for me; we create a huge issue in the Middle East and then just supply munitions to an apartheid state that’s turning Gaza into Dresden? Not in my name, pal - I’m hoping the two big parties are absolutely horrified by the vote share that abandons them tomorrow. They both disgust me.

I have been here 24 years, and the decline of this city is truly depressing. The centre of town is full of aggressive homeless. Drug dealing is beyond control. wages are terrible, yet property is ridiculous. The Brighton bubble burst many years back. I can't wait to move

Please, please, please, PLEASE don't vote Labour! It will destroy Brighton.

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The Green Council was something of a disaster for Brighton and the condition of the city has deteriorated rather rapidly in recent years. As much as I liked having Lucas in the Commons, it does feel like something needs to change. Rail prices up, rent prices up, shop closures left and right - it might be nice for the rest of the country that Brighton elects a single Green MP - but is that MP going to do anything for the City itself? Or are we going to be getting questions on international arms sales? Important? Sure - but nothing we've not had before with Lucas and Russel-Moyle. It's also noticeable how it's all the very large houses in the Constituency that have 'Vote Green' signs in the window...

Rent in Brighton is insane, it's rivalling london prices. Rich londoners are also moving there in droves and pushing out the creatives who've been there for years and make it extremely hard for young people who've either just graduated or want to move there for the arts scene. Most musicians I know who live there have moved to the outskirts, smaller nearby towns or pay London prices for rent without the high wages you get in the capital.

As long as they don’t vote Tory or reform, I’m sorry but who really cares? Not saying I’m against the Green Party, but surely the headline “Brighton votes green” is sort of “dog bites man” territory isn’t it?

First time ever vote Greens 💚

We love green

As someone who lives in Peter Kyle’s constituency, he’s been so helpful with my daughter and her schooling issues with her ehcp.

as long as its not reform or con vote who you want

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I gotta move to Brighton, seems like my kind of place

Labour don't understand what damage they have done to themselves. They will follow the Tories next.

Wealth tax lol. They won't pay it. They will just leave the country or put somewhere your never going to find it.

Vote Reform

‘Safest Green seat’ not difficult. It’s the only Green seat.

VOTE GREEN

Have the greens made Brighton affordable to live in?

At last,an intelligent electorate.

That is scratching my head people in Brighton absolutely loony 😅

Vote reform 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Ahhh damn missed you guys

Still in need of getting an equal representation of Green where it counts, hopefully some strong seats gained

Austerity is an own-goal, thats what the Tories didn't understand. Less money to those in need means less money in circulation, means less spending, means a smaller economy, means the well dries up. It's like clutching at straws where if you try to over control the situation, you only catch a bit. However, less rigidity on spending in the right places, leads to money circulating, landing for a while here, moving on to there, long enough to do its job to permit spending (and a bit of saving too). We work to earn money in order to live apparently but we seem to have forgotten that money has to go to work too. By not using it, it too becomes unemployed. And like the unemployed, it costs money to not employ it. Strange....

If the greens could get in, in my seat I would seriously consider it. My two most important issues is Scottish independence and the state of our planet.

Used to b a fab place but has been run down like loadza seaside places

The Greens lost Brighton Council, they did a terrible job. I used to respect the party but they've become immature, especially over Corbyn.

Now, over to the Count, at the count. 😂

"I'm not really sure Starmer is going to deliver" says one of them. Starmer has already made clear that he is going copy Conservartive policies in so many areas that voting for Labour just means giving the Tories another term (under a different label)

If only we could all live in a bubble... cut off from the reality, of living in a ruthless, American neoliberal Capitalist world.

All these people are well meaning here, but the reality is we need a landslide vote for Labour to change the relentless loss of the past 14 years.

Lifelong conservative voter. It coming down for me green and Lib Dem I’ll likely vote green. No policies matter if there is no planet.

the only real people left, all the rest are vampires

Voting for the Greens here at Brighton Pavilion ! Thank you to the people’s republic of Brighton and Hove. 🥬 🥬🥬

5:08 This lady is incredibly based, she knows what's going on

Green party 🎉 Independent party 🎉 Workers party 🎉

Good on ya Brighton, I very much hope you do vote in a Green MP again - one of my coworkers says he’s voting tactically and voting Labour purely to oust the Tories, but he clearly doesn’t understand how tactical voting works in a seat the Tories definitely can’t win! 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’ve got another day to change his mind… (I’ve already voted Green by post, even though I’m in Tottenham so a fat lot of good that’ll do!)

Definitely Green 💚💚💚

The Labour guy for Brighton Pav seems really good though, so I'd say it'll be a close one between them. They honestly should have put him in Kemptown and this choice would be easy

A wealth tax above 10mGBP net worth Yes that makes sens to me. I am French (Well ... I do lots of business in UK and half my family is British) and We have it in France and I have to pay it (The threshold is lower, it's called IFI tax and it only concerns real estate holdings) and I think that it is totally fair. All my wealthy friends are afraid of the IFI and talk about it all the time like we live in a communist dictatorship but common...none of us have fled to Singapore or Abudabi, we all end up paying it and it is only fair. I am bemused by the relatively lower level of solidarity in England.

So proud of my city 💚

I'm so glad I don't live in Brighton

No one is talking about, legalising cannabis. Talking away all that money from organized crime and rising taxes. Double win.

Was a student in Brighton. Great place.

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What on earth has Gaza got to do with the British economy. People who use the NHS should be making some form of contribution for it . A small copayment from those who can afford to pay will make a huge difference.

How will a wealth tax work? Who will value the assets to be taxed? How easy is it to hide the beneficial ownership of assets in trusts and offshore?

Gotta love the old girl @1:35 with her "Fuck the Tories" button badge.

Postal votes should be banne so easily misused.

These so-called Greens complaining about fuel poverty on one hand and cooling down the planet on the other....grrrr it makes my piss boil

Green party will never get my vote tbh

What if Brighton does indeed vote labour

Hows your recycling getting on down there