READER LETTER: Brexit negotiations in serious trouble
Dear HIP, In case you didn’t hear the Commons debate on Brexit earlier this month, may I urge you and your readers to look at these extracts from Kier Starmer, the shadow Brexit Minister. It’s a devastating analysis! “There is…
Stormy Waters
As French fishermen attack British boats, Richard Price says Brexit will mean tough times ahead for the UK and Hastings fishing communities Hastings fishermen, along with others around the UK, are beginning to feel betrayed by Brexit. They are coming…
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 reports New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association chair Paul Joy says…
Amber Warning
“Stand with us or we’re finished” say Hastings fishermen. Emma Harwood reports The Hastings fishing community is challenging MP Amber Rudd to oppose concessions to fishing rights made by the government’s Brexit transition deal, which they say has sold them…
The Brexit Debate
Previously we pointed out that the very regions that voted most strongly for Brexit stand to be the worst off as a result. And Hastings is not immune. Now two HIP readers contribute their views on the unwelcome consequences of leaving…
OPINION: The Means of Repression
Colin Gibson takes issue with Britain’s booming arms trade Our despicable and morally-bankrupt weapons industry has successfully hoodwinked and bribed its way into the national ignorance. Since the Brexit referendum, export licences worth £3 billion have been granted to UK…
ANALYSIS: Ode to Joy?
Kent Barker looks at the growing evidence of severe economic consequences given a hard or even medium boiled Brexit Schadenfreude – taking pleasure in another’s misfortune – is not a particularly laudable emotion but, just occasionally, it may be unavoidable.…
EU Supports Hastings Fishermen
BY KENT BARKER The European Parliament has voted to outlaw electric pulse fishing – a practice long criticised by the Hastings fleet. The recommendation came from the European Committee of the Regions whose rapporteur or lead member is Emily Westley,…
Poetry Corner
connelley’s noir Pete Donohue Twitter: @petedonohuepoet wry raw restless & risky just how i like my women & whiskey die poor feckless & frisky leave your heart in san franciski. Stereotypically British or Let’s do Brexit Sometime Patrick Carabine Welsh…
Brexit Boris: From Mayor to Nightmare
By Heathcote Williams - (Public Reading Rooms £) Review by Colin Gibson In a post-truth world where idle conjecture has replaced fact and where public opinion is shaped by the keyboard tapping of sociopathic web-dwellers, it is refreshing to read fellow…