May be a clever move, equally, to give someone else the profile - not to mention allow her to concentrate on what she's already doing as an MP without running the party as well. Which reminds me I must chase up joining it...
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UndercoverElephant wrote:May be a clever move to avoid losing next time because of massive boundary changes.
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Don't understand. How do boundary changes affect her decision?
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
I thought so too, but I'm mystified about the boundary change angle.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
UndercoverElephant wrote:May be a clever move to avoid losing next time because of massive boundary changes.
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Don't understand. How do boundary changes affect her decision?
Her seat is effectively disappearing. There will still be a constituency called "Brighton Pavilion", but its not going to be the same constituency. The vote in Brighton is not evenly distributed. The Greens depend partly on the hippy/liberal long-term community, and partly on the universities/students. Both the universities are moving consituencies, and half the students will go with them. They will be replaced by tory voters from Hove.
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An inspired move. By allowing others in the party to step forward and promote a broader image they can hopefully move their media profile from primarily invisible towards merely transparent.
I suspect the UCE is bang on the money, Lucas doesn't want to be leader if/when she loses her seat in 2015. If she stands down now it'll give which ever unknown gets the job at least some time to develop a public persona.
