GE2019: Question Time
Many weeks of national as well as local focus on voters in the marginal constituency of Hastings & Rye (Conservative majority 346 in 2017) should come to a head next Thursday 5th December when all four candidates will enter an…
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…
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…
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…
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 stated, “The newly-released 2019 Index of Multiple Deprivation shows Hastings…
Bookbuster Book Review
Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief By Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman and David MillerPluto Press, rrp £ Review by Kay Green There are so many people trying to use bullying and false…
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”.…
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…
The Rights That We Secure For Ourselves
By David Francis No. This Supreme Court Judgement does not restore hope. It does not fill me with optimism. I’m not complaining about the spectacle of our Etonian overlords being made to look like fools. But we are skating on…
Mann, Oh Man
David Francis reacts to news that former Labour MP John Mann has resigned from the commons to work as an ‘antisemitism Tsar’ for the government and been made a Lord. In other news, John Mann. Good riddance, obviously, but I…