Precarity In The System
We are now at the end of one of the most vicious, divisive and short-lived general elections for a generation. This has been determined in part by two conflicting and divergent realities: security and precarity. These two realities are informed…
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 time has come to place a vote and elect a…
Our NHS and Our Community
Graham Pearcy wrote eloquently about his experience of the NHS in Poetic Justice and the NHS (Issue 139). It’s interesting how one good experience can make you ‘almost’ question your beliefs: in his previous article (Battle Lines for the NHS,…
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. She replaces outgoing MP Amber Rudd, who lost the Conservative…
GE2019: Paul Crosland
Targeting 365 Votes Amber Rudd’s majority over Labour candidate Peter Chowney at the 2017 general election was just 346. The three other candidates, Nick Perry of the Liberal Democrats, Michael Sheridan of UKIP and independent Nicholas Wilson all lost their…
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 parishes of Camber, East Guldeford, Iden, Peasmarsh, Playden and Rye…
Perry Sauce
If you’ve paid close attention to the past elections in Hastings and Rye you may have noticed the recurring appearance of Liberal Democrat candidate Nick Perry. He’s the one that looks a bit like Master Chef judge John Torode. Perry…
Labour Roots
HIP’s political editor, Alan Bolwell, reports from a Labour Party drive in the key marginal of Hastings and Rye East Sussex College, Hastings played host to a local Labour Roots Rally last Saturday as the party starts to mobilise its…