This week, Sunday 17 September 2006, we looked at birth and rebirth... in relation to politics that is.

The Seagulls Party is gearing up for the next round of local elections and the UK Independence Party looks to re-launch itself with a new leader... the South East's Nigel Farage.

Both are looking to damage the Liberal Democrats, who are also in our patch for their Party conference this week.

All that and we gaze into the political future with Ivor Fireman... Tarot reader on Brighton Pier.

Here are some of your comments:

The UK Independence Party has the breathtaking hypocrisy to criticise European Union waste. Perhaps they should take a close look at their own party and remember the old saying about those in glass houses not throwing stones!

For a party who have lost half their membership in just 2 years and now have a little over 16,000 members they must be very grateful for the EU subsidies that keep them running.

And for people who think they are backing a separate political party I would like to ask why is the new leader of UKIP Nigel Farage making deals not to stand UKIP candidates against certain Conservative MPs?

Voters have been betrayed by voting UKIP expecting a separate political party - not a conservative pressure group.

Since being elected in 2004 UKIPs MEPs have done very little to campaign to get Britain to quit the EU - still you wouldn�t want to bite the hand that feeds you would you!?
John Edwards

Nigel Farage: how much a year... in salary and expenses... do you take from the organisation you say we should have nothing to do with?
Annon

I�m a Tory but can�t stand Cameron, so will vote for UKIP.
Annon

Lewes District Council are employing disgraceful delaying tactics and are gambling with our money.
Annon

I live in Lewes and am not a Brighton fan. However, the stadium should be built as it benefits the whole community.
Bob Jeffries

I am a Lewes resident who is 100% in favour of the new stadium. LDC have never asked me my views.
Shaun

Keep fighting Lewes District Council. Not everyone wants a football stadium on a green site. Don�t let the football bullies win!
Annon

Why build a football stadium at Falmer? With the half dozen supporters that watch Brighton it will be bankrupt in a few years anyway!
Annon

As a resident of Woodingdean the extra traffic would be horrendous.
Pat

Good luck at the polls Seagulls. We at Charlton set up party and stood for elections, we won many seats and this laid the way open for us to return to the Valley.
Annon

I think your views against the stadium are stupid. Every great city needs a great stadium! SEAGULLS!
Jesse, Amir and Stefan in Brighton

Everyone must know by now most MPs speak with a fork tongue.
JG Kent

LibDems are clowns! Do they have a leader? Who is he? Where is he? Does he justify his salary?
Annon

The LibDems are a bunch of pathetic losers! One policy one area, the opposite elsewhere!
Annon

The Lib Dems can�t run a whelk stall let alone the country! They ran our council for a while � it was a joke! We had a lib dem MP for a while... another joke!
John, Eastbourne

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