I have been passed a snap of the Christmas tree inside Brighton and Hove’s Green Party run council building. Or more accurately, I have been passed a snap of some bits of old shit collected from Brighton beach and put on a shelf under the title ‘One Planet’.
After a year where rubbish has gone uncollected from the streets of Brighton due to an industrial dispute between the lefty council and the evil capitalist refuse workers, the irony of this installation will not go unnoticed:
Hardly very festive, and are those bulbs energy efficient? We should be told.

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