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Tories Hand Council to Reform
KENT BARKER Reform UK has taken control of East Sussex County Council (ESCC) after receiving support from Conservative and Independent county councillors. Richard KellyEast Sussex County Hall While they do…
IN WITH THE NEW
Green surge in council election shake-up HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council will have 12 new councillors when it reconvenes later this month. Eight are Greens; four are ; Naz Montag…
What theParties Say:
Conservatives Labour has controlled Hastings Borough Council for the past 14 years, building up huge debts and mismanaging the town's finances in the process. Recently, the local Labour Party split…
Fernando to stand for Parliament
Lucian Fernando, borough councillor for Silverhill, who left the Conservative party earlier this year and joined Reform UK, has announced that he has been selected as official parliamentary candidate for…
Tory Councillor Jumps Ship
Paul McLaughlin John Rankin John Rankin has resigned from the Conservative Party group on Hastings Borough Council and will now sit as an independent. He will continue to represent the…
Local parents demand meeting with MP over climate U-turns
JEN ROUSE After news that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is rolling back a range of climate targets, parents from the Hastings group of Parents For Future have written to Sally-Ann…
Tories Lose Majority on County Council
PAUL McLAUGHLIN County Hall in Lewis The Conservatives have lost their majority on East Sussex County Council (ESCC) after being pushed into second place in a by-election last Thursday (3 August).…
No Political Affiliations, says Cllr Fernando
Cllr Lucien Fernando, who became ward councillor for Silverhill on a Conservative ticket in May 2022 but has now left the party (see HIP 227), says that his future votes…
Northeye Protestors Blame Merriman and Tory Government
HUGH SULLIVAN A meeting of Bexhill-on-Sea Town Council resolved last Wednesday to oppose the use of the former prison site at Northeye to house asylum seekers. The full Town Council…
STORM OVER COUNCIL VOTES
Labour “power grab”or “far-right” gift horse? Kevin BoormanNew mayor Margi O’Callaghan and deputy Heather Bishop HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council leader Paul Barnett started his regular column in the Hastings…
Councillor Fernando – beyond party control
HUGH SULLIVAN Lucian Fernando, the man at the centre of the voting storm reported alongside, was elected to Hastings Borough Council as ward councillor for Silverhill in May 2021 on…
Tory Fear, Labour Cheer
PAUL McLAUGHLIN It may have escaped the attention of some folk in Hastings, but last week voters across England went to the polls in the largest round of local elections…
More Raw Sewage Woes for Sally Ann Hart
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Local Conservative MP Sally-Ann Hart has been forced to issue an apology on the floor of the House of Commons after incorrectly claiming that Labour’s Jim McMahon, the…
OWENS OUT, ATTRACTIONS WITHDRAWN
So what’s left of £400k Town Deal investment? HUGH SULLIVAN There’s been a major upheaval in the management of OWENS, the entertainment centre opened last November in the former Debenhams…
Party Politics Get Personal Internal turmoil for both Labour and Tories
Following on from our lead report in HIP 204 that Cllr Maya Evans has been excluded from a “long list” of prospective Labour party candidates for the next parliamentary election…
Not on the List
Would-be Labour MP Maya Evans questions her exclusion A “long list” of candidates from whom one will be chosen to represent the Labour party at the next general election in…
Regime Change
Greens accept two posts in Labour-led cabinet At the first meeting of Hastings Borough Council since the local elections, Labour party chief Cllr Paul Barnett was voted back last week…
No Dissent
Labour Council Leader Removes Tories From Cabinet On Monday 8th June Hastings Borough Council leader Kim Forward announced a reshuffle of cabinet portfolio holders. The new list is set out…
GE2019
As the General Election approaches, the hustings are bustling, sleigh-bells ring in the distance, and spectres of Christmas past, present and future loom long over the upcoming winter - the…
GE2019: Sally-Ann Hart
The Magisterial Candidate The newly selected Conservative candidate for Hastings & Rye is chairman (sic) of Bexhill and Battle Conservative Association and has represented the ward of Eastern Rother (the…
Chowney Appears In Perry’s Scope As The First Pre-Election Torpedoes Are Fired
In an article printed in Hastings in Focus, Hastings and Rye Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, Nick Perry, cited indices where areas of Hastings are highlighted as suffering from deprivation. He…
Climate Justice and Modern Slavery
By Maya Evans “Slavery is the culture in other countries,” said Tory Cllr Mike Edwards during a full council motion discussing modern-day slavery in Britain. Actually, climate change is a…
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 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…
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…
Indicative?
Perhaps ‘indicative’ was too strong a word to describe a series of votes taken by MPs to find an alternative Brexit strategy. After twice rejecting the government’s plan, MPs have…
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.…
Bohemian Rhapsody
Council votes funds for feasibility study The Labour-controlled cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) voted on Monday evening to pursue a feasibility study for the development of a combined sporting…
GP HOURS EXTENDED: But Not For Walk-In Patients
By Hugh Sullivan and Lindsey Williams David Cameron’s Conservative Party manifesto of 2015 promised seven-day access to NHS services. And shortly after the election was won, then Health Secretary Jeremy…
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.…
Local Momentum: Building for Labour and Debunking Misinformation
by Natasha Scott Local Momentum activists led by Alfred Bouch set up a stall in the town centre of Hastings at Wellington Place on Saturday 7th January. When interviewing Mr…