A date has been set for the Queen’s Park by-election, which will take place next month.
One of the two seats in the Brighton ward is up for grabs following the resignation of Labour’s Tristram Burden.
Councillor Burden is becoming a local authority inspector for the Care Quality Commission – a job which would create a conflict of interest with his role as councillor.
A by-election is being held on Thursday, 18 September.
The ward’s other councillor, Milla Gauge, is also Labour. She was elected with 46% of the vote at a by-election in May last year.
The Lib Dems have selected Rüdi Dikty-Daudiyan as their candidate.
Rüdi is a freelance translator who plays for Queens Park Tennis Club and volunteers for the Pug Dog Welfare & Rescue Association. He lives in the ward with his husband and dog Emma
He said: “I couldn’t be happier to have made Brighton my home, but like many of our residents, I’m concerned about how it’s being run.
“The current Labour council has a massive majority, and yet, we’re not seeing the results we deserve.
“This is the sixth expensive by-election being held since they came into office. That’s money that could have been spent on improving pavements, dealing with bins and recycling and anti-social behaviour.
“If elected, I would focus on getting the basics right.”
The Lib Dem chap didn’t do too well when he stood in Surrey in 2022 and 2023. I suspect the same in Queens Park. Like all of Kemptown, this is a straight fight between Labour and the Greens.
Why focus on the lib dem candidate, what happened to equality. Is this paper being sponsored by the lib dems or something? Please be honest and list the other candidates with their portfolio as well
I was thinking the same!
I don’t think the other parties have announced their candidates yet. We usually get an article for each!
Time for reform
The day a brain-dead deform stooge wins a council seat in Brighton I’ll stick my life savings on Whitehawk winning the Champions League
May 2027 – see you in Paddy Power
Reform has not won any council seat to date and has consistently placed low in every election in Brighton.
Thankfully we will have no Reform idiots putting their heads above the parapet! However the candidate states that the money used for by-elections could be better used for other things is either disingenuous or indicative of his naivity of the workings of local government!
There was one at the last by-election, although I remember he got blasted, quite rightly, for his racist bigotry tweets, which he then double-downed on.
No that was a dosgy smear campaign by those idiots at SUTR, no racist tweets, no bigotry – that all comes from the left who just blindly scream “racism” at anyone who doesn’t agree with their open borders / bankrupt the country approach to politics. And of course there are the lies…….
Oh dear, the intolerant left doing what they do best. No bigotry or racist tweets – stop making up your own narrative. The police got involved as he received threats of being beaten up by violent thugs on the left thanks to the lies spread by SUTR / Socialist worker idiots. Not agreeing with the governments shameful approach to illegal migration does not make you a racist. Labour are tanking, people were sold a lie and change is coming. The hard left are dangerous and cruel, screaming “racism” at anyone without stopping to think how ridiculous they are being. Intolerant and damaging, stifling any opposition with childish, hateful, blind ignorance. Grow up!
Certainly, D, your loyalty to him is always going to be defensive. Unfortunately for your argument, there’s a clear paper trail, even after he deleted his account.
Brighton & Hove News reported his own posts included calling immigration an “invasion,” warning about the so-called “Islamisation of England,” and mocking Sadiq Khan as a “drama queen” for speaking out about racism. The Reform Brighton account also retweeted the leader of Britain First and Turning Point UK. These aren’t fabrications — they’re his own words, admitted to in his own defence.
Police involvement doesn’t erase the fact that those posts existed or that people were justified in finding them offensive. Disagreeing with migration policy is one thing; targeting entire religious or ethnic communities is quite another, and it’s exactly that line he crossed. Not to mention his habit of calling women “stupid” in other exchanges.
And no, “I’m gay and married to a legal migrant” isn’t the get-out-of-bigotry-free card he seems to think it is — it’s the same logic as “I have Black friends” and it convinces nobody.
Trying to pretend it never happened is just rewriting history. The receipts are there, and you’re not very good at hiding them.
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/04/22/election-candidate-deletes-twitter-account/
As usual the intolerant hard left, spouting hatred whilst the country turns to Reform. The tide is turning, enjoy your moment 😉
Yet again the hateful left, be careful what you wish for dear
Facts aren’t “hateful,” – They’re just inconvenient for people trying to rewrite history.
No doubt some useful idiot pandering to Hamas will get elected. 🤦♂️
Ward Councillors, of any persuasion, have next to no influence on global politics.
We don’t want any labour fxxking party in Brighton & hove.
We don’t any Labour fxxking party for Brighton.
Funny how Reform are doing so well up north, and Keir Starmer is less popular than Maggie Thatcher! I guess Brighton is full of so called progressives. Not good for Brighton.
The North is interesting because it is indicative of a collapsing Conservative voter base and a slow growth of a Labour one, rather than a declining Labour. Constituencies where Reform excels align closely with areas that voted strongly to Leave the EU in 2016 too, so there are interesting patterns which appear to be shaped by a blend of cultural and economic disaffection.
They don’t need fully worked policy to resonate; they just need to echo frustrations people already feel. Which is difficult to counter in a way that is engaging to the regular public voter.
Reform did well in Kent, Brighton is a tough nut to crack but the way things are going………. 🙂
2nd Labour cllr to stand down in the ward in 2 years, they just don’t give a monkeys!
Hopefully they get sent a message they deserve
Well, Mistry never really started the job, and was seen soon afterwards with the Cons Robert Jenrick after she was expelled. There’s not an insignificant chance she was put in there as a plant.
I wish Reform would get in. They seem to be the only set of councillors that seem bothered about cutting council waste. The could make sure taxpayers are getting proper value for money. I can’t afford to vote for Labour or the Greens anymore.
At least the lib/dems have got their act together to let the people know who is going to be there for them early but also it does give the others time to dig up any scandal!!
Although I don’t live in the ward I wish him and the lib/dems all the best for being organised
The Greens are dangerous.