Dave Brinson

Dave Brinson (born 29 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 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 . 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, classroom temperature rules, and the 2008-10 pay award (he supported the teachers' strike) He was elected as the Chair of the union's LGBT Working Party in 2008, and is actively involved withSchools 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,

External links

• DaveBrinson.com- official site