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 the Hastings & Rye constituency “in the current political circumstances”.…
The Space Between Us
By Patsy Solankski Regarding Leave versus Remain, I don’t think that insulting someone’s IQ or calling them stupid helps one iota. A very clever, emotive and devious propaganda machine was used to separate this country, and it’s been extremely effective.…
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 councillor who served as the chairman of the education committee…
Profit from Division
Leverage is emerging in the fractures of polarised political culture. One venture capitalist prospecting in nationalist movements financed far-right agitators who successfully campaigned in UK and US elections, gaining access and influence to barter for favourable tax conditions for the…
Green Yellows Or Yellow Greens?
On 1st July Paul Hunt and Nick Perry, of the local Liberal Democrat Party, extended an invitation to the local Green Party offering an electoral pact in next year’s local council elections. The invitation cited the Lib Dems’ willingness to…
Rise Of The Independents
Proportional Representation (PR) is generally reckoned to aid smaller parties independent of the mainstream. Hence the extraordinary success of the Brexit and Green parties in last week’s European poll conducted, in the UK, on the D’Hondt PR system. However this…
Stemming The Anti-European Tide
How will the South East region vote in next week’s European elections? By Emma Harwood After forty years of membership, the UK has taken part in eight European elections without anyone paying much ; This could be because in previous…