Going by the latest View from the Greens column in The Argus, it looks as though nothing has changed with the Green Party’s approach to local politics, despite their hammering in the recent Brighton and Hove council elections.
Their new group leader, Steve Davis, used 90 per cent of his article last week to criticise the cost of the King’s coronation and the Public Order Act 2023 and just ten per cent on discussing the city’s new council.
He clearly still doesn’t understand that local councillors are elected by local residents to sort out local issues, such as the lack of public toilets, pavements covered in weeds and the loss-making i360, and not spend their time discussing and writing about national ones.
Brighton and Hove has got three Members of Parliament who were elected to sort out national issues so I would suggest Mr Davis would be better employed sorting out local ones and leave stuff like coronation costs and Acts of Parliament to them.
If he really wants to get involved with national issues he can always put his name forward as a candidate in the forthcoming general election.
Eric Waters
Lancing
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