Claire Carr Defects to Greens
Cllr Claire Carr, who was newly elected as Labour councillor for Castle ward at the borough council election in May, announced last week that she had left the party and joined the Greens. That doubles the Green party representation but…
Confused by COP 26?
By JULIA HILTON, Green Party councillor for Tressell and Old Hastings, and TONY COLLINS, Green Party campaigner The news is full of environmental doom as COP 26 unrolls. You may feel anger, despair, or confusion at the way our politicians…
Do Cars Dominate Your Street?
By Julia Hilton Green Party councillor Hastings has one of the lowest percentages of car ownership in the country: a third of Hastings residents don’t own a car and yet cars dominate our streets. Are you concerned about speeding cars…
Green Party to contest all wards in 2021 election
Hastings Green party is to field candidates in all 16 wards at next year’s Hastings Borough Council elections. Postponed from last spring because of the pandemic, votes can be cast for one seat in each ward on 6th May. A…
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…