Arrival in Brighton for Conference

I've arrived in Brighton for the Green conference. Luckily, I've got the use of a friend's flat in the centre of the city, he's away in China. Brighton's hills are steep! Watched "Newsnight" ... first half was about NHS privatisation and the next segment was about the Green conference. Caroline Lucas, our Green MEP for the Southeast, was interviewed by Martha Kearney. Kearney's line was that: you don't have a unique selling point anymore now that other party leaders (Cycling Dave, Ming and Gordon) are mumbling about the environment. Lucas was pretty robust in pointing out Lib Dem failures on aviation, and she got off a good frame, that the other parties are "moving our way" but that it's not enough in a time of environmental crisis. You have to wonder about Newsnight. They have this recurring segment of "Ethical Man" where a fellow is trying to live as low-impact, as carbon-thrifty, as possible, which must be very educational for a lot of people, but then, when they cover the Green Party's conference, they portray the only environmental political party as horribly procedure-oriented and boring.