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A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME IT’S A COMMODITYHastings Borough Council and the admirable Surviving Streets UK are working in partnership so they can use Churchwood House as offices and a base for their foodbank. As Peter Chowney, leader of Hastings Borough…
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A QUESTION OF TRUSSA few years ago, a tear in the fabric of the space-time continuum occurred, and through this portal fell Liz Truss, former resident of a parallel universe. This happy (for her) accident coincided with a government inclusivity…
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BERTS OF A FEATHEROn January 26th there was a meeting between Amber Rudd and all interested parties concerning the extended closure of Hastings pier. At the meeting, pier owner Mr Abid Gulzar’s team, after being challenged about the dearth of…
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BOOZING FOR BREXITIn an attempt to blind us with the science of words, cheap beer magnate Tim Martin made the Hastings branch of Wetherspoons (Trip Advisor’s “third worst Wetherspoons in Sussex” according to the Hastings Observer), one of his dog…
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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORKHOUSE AND PENSIONS Has our cling-on MP Amber Rudd no sense of shame? This Dickensian government appears determined to inflict its Oliver Twist values on a society already reeling from the sucker punch of austerity, but…
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POSH & BREX We recently attended a meeting of the Eurosceptic Institute for Mumbo Jumbo, Baloney & Contemptible Bunkum, where we asked chief mannikin Jacob Rees-Mogg, what possible reason there might be for a man of his social position to…
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Opinionated jabs for the pointy-fingered By Lobbytroll PEER PRESSURE On our letters page you can read, if you have the time, a long impassioned plea to “talk up the pier” from Lord (sic) Brett McLean. In it he implores us…
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FARAGE BALLOON Speaking for those he promised to represent by regularly attending the European Parliament, Nigel Farage, privately educated banker, absentee UkIP MEP for South East England and mouthpiece of the working man, has made a surprise appearance in Brussels…
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MONEY DON’T TALK IT SCREAMS The family run enterprise of Saudi Arabia, super-wealthy patron of unscrupulous and sociopathic arms dealers, worldwide exporter of black gold and Wahhabi terrorism, has finally succumbed to the mother of all hubris. As the petrol-driven…
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DEAD IN THE WATER So the £500,000 proposal by Hastings Harbour Quarter (HHQ) to construct, right in the heart of Hastings’ fishing quarter, a luxury marina for 600 boats, a spanking new harbour (for the fishing fleet) and 1,300 floating…