Dave Brinson

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Dave Brinson (born 29th December 1977) is a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He was selected as Labour’s prospective candidate for the Eastbourne constituency in 2007.

Chair of the Eastbourne Labour Party [1] since 2000, he has been a critic of Eastbourne’s Conservative MP Nigel Waterson, notably on the MP’s record on lesbian and gay rights [2] . He has acted as Labour’s main media spokesperson in a town that has not had elected Labour councillors since 1993.

Brinson is a secondary school teacher, and a member of the national executive committee of the National Union of Teachers. As an NUT official he has often been critical of official Labour policy, especially on the Academy programme [3], classroom temperature rules [4] [5], and the 2008-10 pay award (he supported the teachers’ strike) [6] He was elected as the Chair of the union’s LGBT Working Party in 2008, and is a member of the national committee of Schools Out ! which organises the annual LGBT History Month.

He was educated at Middlesex University and the Central School of Speech and Drama, and was a former local official of the actors' union Equity,

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] Eastbourne Labour Party
  2. ^ [2] Eastbourne Herald, MP is homophobic says Labour chair, 14th June 2007
  3. ^ [3] Anti-Academies Alliance: 16th May 2007
  4. ^ [4] The Independent on Sunday: Teachers back call to close overheated classrooms, 9th April 2007
  5. ^ [5] Daily Telegraph Send children home if classrooms get too hot April 9th 2008
  6. ^ [6] Eastbourne Gazette, Teachers to go on Strike, 23rd April 2008

[edit] External links

DaveBrinson.com- official site

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