If I had had any
doubts about the joint
announcement yesterday by Labour Council Leader, Nancy Platts and Green
Leader of the Opposition, Phelim McCafferty, about how the two parties will aim to
cooperate for the benefit of the people of Brighton and Hove, such doubts would
have been chased away by the risible
commentary of former Tory Group Leader, Tony Janio in today’s Argus.
Mr Janio, recovering
from having led the Tories to their worst ever result in Brighton and Hove (and
from his subsequent resignation as Group Leader) is not at his most lucid or
persuasive. He harbours an obsessive fear of “extremism” and is certain that
Labour and Green Party members will be disappointed at failing to turn the City
into a “hotbed of revolution”.
Any member of a
Party led by the current Prime Minister is presumably already used to disappointment, and Mr Janio should probably get used to the feeling. When I
was growing up in Brighton it was a Tory town, but now the Tories are very much
the third Party on the Council, with two members on each
of the main policy Committees (compared to four each for Labour and the
Greens).
It’s kind of
the Argus to give space to a former political Leader who is coming to terms with
what has happened to him – and good of them to juxtapose his piece with another
story about people
who deserve to be taken just as seriously.
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