Antisemitism: Local and national
On 21st October Hastings Borough Council adopted the working definition of antisemitism developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The working definition comes with eleven examples that are intended to clarify its application, such as: “Accusing Jews as a…
Greening Hastings
Local Green Party leader Julia Hilton will meet Hastings Council cabinet member for Environment, c, on 28th September as part of a continuing campaign against the use of glyphosate weed killer in the town. Please add your support by emailing:…
GLYPHOSATE – A Witness Report
By Richard Price Unaware of the existence of the Green party petition, I saw in late May a weed-spraying vehicle being driven up Tackleway in Hastings Old Town. I was surprised when the driver asked: “Is there a problem?”, adding:…
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”.…
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…
Local Greens Seek Climate Emergency Action
Over 750 businesses and individuals in Hastings and Rye have signed up to the contents of a letter circulated by the constituency Green Party calling for Hastings Borough Council (HBC) to declare a Climate Emergency and begin “meaningful action” to…
Where has all the Green Gone?
Julia Hilton of the Hastings Green party has been studying the Area Action Plan (see news story here) which could transform the town over the next 25 years, and wonders if the planners aren’t missing a raft of environmental opportunities…
Grand Plans for Hastings
Residents urged to have their say during public consultation. By Julia Hilton There is less than a month to go to comment on, and influence, the biggest urban development plan for the borough of Hastings probably since James Burton transformed St…