After 14 arduous years it looks as though the Conservative experiment on this country will be coming to an end. Every poll, expert and bookie have a new government absolutely odds on and I for one can’t wait to see the back of this version of the Tory party. Since 2010 we have been subjected to the politically driven dogma of austerity and it has brought this city – and indeed this country – to its knees financially.
Add in the fact we were dragged out of the most successful trading community the planet has ever seen, subjected to the catastrophic financial incompetence of Liz Truss, the snouts in the troughs chomping down PPE windfalls, the continuation of privately owned utilities, dog whistle racist policies, the list is utterly endless. The chances of this type of reckless behaviour would have been dramatically reduced if we, like every other country in Northern Europe (bar that democratic utopia Belarus) had some form of proportional representation. Readers of a certain age know exactly how the next couple of decades will pan out and yes, the Conservatives at some point will return to govern again and so the merry-go-round will continue.
This is why it is imperative that there are MPs who will challenge the status quo in the House of Commons and for 14 years Brighton Pavilion has been graced by one of history’s great parliamentarians in the shape of Caroline Lucas MP and with any luck we will quadruple our number of MPs as we challenge in Bristol, Waveney Valley,.