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leading
up to the first labour council
When the local party was reformed, Rob immediately joined and began to really enjoy ward meetings. Because the very extreme left had been banished from the party by then so the left of the party wasn't that leftish so I felt quite comfortable with what was left of the left-with what was allowed to come back in. And in fact the meetings were great fun; very loud, very opinionated, worth attending. A general committee meeting, a constituencey level meeting was worth getting on that committee to participate in the arguements about...because we were still in a Tory government weren't we so it was easy to argue
'In
1986 Labour finally won control of Brighton Town Council. It may be that
Brighton has been rather better governed since Labour took control but
the impression is of a political party which has inherited a machine and
does not quite know what to do with it. The most damning indictment is
that the assumption-of-power has seemingly left Brightonians quite unmoved'
( Hill, Rocky: 1991)
The
Eagle Pub in Gloucester Road - a popular venue for meetings
since it had a large room at the back, at the time |
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