The
Green Party Autumn Conference is in
Hove again this year. We last hosted a National Conference in September 2006, and the intervening three years have seen the local party more than double its numbers on the Council, from 6 members to 13, making us the joint second largest political group in the city, tying with Labour.
Not to mention the fact that we're increasingly set to elect
Caroline Lucas MEP as
the first ever Green MP to sit in Westminster on the back of our
rock-solid vote in Brighton Pavilion. Exciting times indeed, and it's great to have Conference back in Brighton & Hove when the local party is riding the crest of our
epic win in Goldsmid, and is brimming with enthusiasm for the forthcoming General Election contest.
However, regular readers will know by now that politics is not all about
"the glamma", as is amply demonstrated by the pic below:
Cllr Sven Rufus & Cllr Amy Kennedy on Conference Stewarding Duty this afternoonDon't get me wrong, my Stewarding stint today was ace: it was brilliant to be *meeting & greeting* people - especially as I finally got to meet
JimJay (Green BlogFather) in the flesh [*shy face*]- and to see so many excellent colleagues and people I'm fond of as they arrived. I really enjoyed myself and I'm looking forward to tomorrow's stint.
But... crikey, those tabards :( If I ever get any time to dig my sewing machine out in the next few months, I may have a crack at designing something less, erm, *utilitarian*. God knows I'm not a vain woman (I wouldn't have let this pic anywhere near the light of day if I was), but there's got to be some sort of acceptable solution to this ;)
Anyway, roll on Day 2 of Conference - looking forward very much to
Caroline's keynote speech tomorrow morning.
Do I get a prize?
