Tag archives for Amber Rudd
Burning Anger
KENT BARKER tries to stay green and keep up with the changing environmental times. Frankly I feel conned. Back in the 1990s I was persuaded to swap my petrol car…
Jews And Anti-Semites In Hastings The Peculiar World Of Dany Louise
In February this year Old Town ward councillor Dany Louise resigned from the Hastings Labour party citing failure of its national leadership to deal with anti-semitism within its ranks. In…
GE2019: Under Starter’s Orders
Tory Candidate Named As Campaign Rother councillor Sally-Ann Hart has been selected by the Hastings & Rye Conservative Association to represent them in the general election scheduled for 12th December.…
Clearing The Electoral Field
Fight For Amber Rudd’s Seat Reduced To Three-Way Contest The local Green Party issued a statement last Sunday that it has decided not to field a general election candidate in…
Fall Out
Amber Rudd’s Departure Leaves Electoral Gap For All Parties The decision of Amber Rudd, former Work and Pensions Secretary, to abandon both her ministerial position and her party allegiance has…
Ruddiculous
Amber Rudd quit the government late on a Saturday evening, in a dramatic and carefully choreographed move with an exclusive for the Sunday Times. Rudd said, “I no longer believe…
The Great Dictator
On the 28th of August, Boris Johnson announced his intention to prorogue parliament from the 9th September until the 14th October, shortly after parliament was due to resume from summer…
Say No More
Amber Rudd, MP for Hasting & Rye, on the suspension of Parliament 6th June 2019 to a number of reportersI think it’s outrageous to consider proroguing Parliament – we are not…
The Real Rail Need: Express Trains to Charing Cross
By Mark Sullivan The story of Amber Rudd’s frustrated attempts to promote a fast rail link to London via the HS1 route through Ashford was told in HIP Issue 133…
Amber’s October Summit
On 8th July Amber Rudd MP headlined her Hastings & Rye constituency website with news that she had met with then Roads Minister, Michael Ellis, and “secured” a commitment from…
Plaza Victory? Not So Fast
Rick Dillon, press officer for Hastings & Rye Labour Party, posted a triumphant “We Did It!” headline on its website last week claiming that NHS leaders were about to confirm…
COMMENT: A Woman For All Seasons?
One wonders if, after politics, Amber Rudd might consider joining the Church and seeking a living in the parish of Bray? She’d be ideally suited to follow in the footsteps…
Brexit Party To Oppose Amber Rudd In Hastings
Nigel Farage’s Brexit party have appointed a candidate to contest the parliamentary seat of Hastings & Rye at any forthcoming general election. He is Tom Bewick, a former Labour party…
HBC Hears Local Concerns over 5G
By Dave Young and Susan McFie On June 24th over 70 members of the public packed into Hastings District Council chamber to hear the leader, Peter Chowney, answer questions on the…
Marshlink Rail Upgrade Stuck On Amber
Since her arrival as constituency MP in 2010, Amber Rudd has consistently talked up the prospect of local railway stations of Bexhill, Hastings and Rye getting a fast connection to…
Syrian Resettlement: “Working Brilliantly”, Says Project Co-ordinator
Simon Finlay, Project Co-ordinator of the Syrian Resettlement Programme at Hastings Borough Council, seems a happy man these days. He has spent half a lifetime working for organisations that have…
Campaign To Re-Open Rye Job Centre
By Josie Demuth Labour Hastings and Rye are launching a campaign on Friday 12th July which calls for the reinstatement of a job centre in Rye. This includes an online…
Not An Overnight Process
MP calls for an end to UK’s unfair allocation of quota Getting a fairer deal for under ten-metre fishing fleets around the country is “not an overnight process” according to…
University Of Brighton Buildings On The Market
By Emma Harwood Two buildings which formed part of the University of Brighton’s Hastings Campus, due to close in September, have been placed on the market with agents Bray Fox…
Rewilding To Avert Catastrophe?
Richard Price argues politicians are criminally negligent in ignoring climate change. Doom is coming to the world. No, I don’t think that’s too strong. I sincerely worry for the future…
Ambivalent Amber in Hot Water
Local Conservative voters have told Hastings MP Amber Rudd she should resign following her decision to abstain on the commons Brexit vote to reject a ‘no-deal’ exit on March 14th.…
Local Media Students Interview Amber
The week of 11th March was a fraught one in Parliament for Department of Work and Pensions Minister and Hastings & Rye MP Amber Rudd - see our political pages…
“Jew-Baiting” In Hastings Labour Party?
Amber Rudd’s Remarks Draw Prompt Denials In a remarkable press release, issued last Sunday and given extensive exposure by the national newspapers, Amber Rudd, MP for Hastings and Rye as…
The Green Transformation
By Josie Demuth The Labour Party is driving forward a set of environmental policies that link social issues like housing, jobs and transport into a large array of progressive green…
Preaching to the Converted
Kent Barker, HIP co-Political Editor, listened to Jeremy Corbyn speechifying in Hastings last thursday St Mary in the Castle may not have been a proper church for years, but there…
Biodiversity Matters
Without government action Richard Price sees little hope for the future “Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction”, ran a recent Guardian headline. UN biodiversity chief, Cristiana…
OPINION: Stop It, You’re Killing Us!
Amber Rudd starts her new job this month. Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions. An easy job really, in many ways she was born to do…
OPINION: Deselecting Amber Rudd?
You have to feel a bit sorry for Amber Rudd. Six months ago she was Home Secretary now she’s battling to save her seat in parliament. The pro-Brexit campaign group,…
Marina Proposal Sunk
The Hastings Harbour Quarter company which had put forward a multi-million pound scheme to develop a modern marina complex, including over a thousand new executive homes off Rock-a-Nore, has formally…
Pier Future
Current owner Sheikh Abid Gulzar has made a submission to the planning department of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) setting out his future proposals for the pier. The Council have however…
Aping Amber
When MP Amber Rudd blogged a video about how all was well with Hastings, a number of residents took exception to her analysis. Local actor Sabina Arthur decided to produce…
We Need You, Fishermen Tell Gove
By Dave Young Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, recently made a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it visit to the Stade. Accompanied both by local MP and former Home…
Judge a man by the company he keeps
So how did the Sheikh with a string of failed and failing companies get his pier bid approved? “The aim throughout the process was that the heritage asset be sold…
Engaging with the Community – On What?
On Friday 15th June the pier structure and its ongoing business were sold by the Administrators of Hastings Pier Charity to Sheikh Abid Gulzar, owner of Eastbourne Pier. At the…
Drug-Abusing, Homeless and Dead
On 4th January this year the Hastings and Rother coroner’s office announced that there had been three deaths of homeless people in Hastings in eight days over Christmas. MP (and…
Tory Shift to the Right
Hastings Council Leader Peter Chowney says that Amber Rudd’s departure as Home Secretary will be bad news for anyone hoping for a more compassionate government So Amber Rudd has resigned…
Being British
Alex Ntung arrived in Hastings as a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He has made his life in Britain working for community cohesion, as co-founder of Education…
Institutional Racism
Former Hastings Liberal Democrat candidate Nick Perry argues Amber Rudd should have departed sooner from a government that is bolstering racism As an opposing candidate to Amber for the last…
Jamaica? No, she finally went of her own accord
KENT BARKER considers how the Windrush farrago and the resignation of Amber Rudd show up the modern Conservative Party and its leaders for what they really are. Here’s a question.…
A LIGHT AHEAD?
Hope could still be on the horizon for the future financial prospects of the Hastings fishing fleet and others like it following a series of meetings around the country. Emma Harwood…