Tag archives for Reform UK
Reform in Reverse
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Reform UK has withdrawn its threat to report Barry Ashley, the owner of the Grumpy Cook café in Robertson Street, to the police, along with local Labour MP…
Greens and Reform Clash over Al Mawasi Link
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN The simmering tensions between the Green-led Hastings Borough Council (HBC) and Reform UK, the main opposition group, burst to the surface at a prickly meeting of the Full…
World Upside Down
In the space of just over a week, thousands of struggling families across Hastings and St Leonards have learned that the automatic allocation of supermarket food vouchers issued to them…
Uproar as Council Scraps Food Vouchers for Kids
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Reform UK-led East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has scrapped the automatic allocation of supermarket food vouchers for struggling families over the summer holidays. The decision has provoked outrage…
Tories Hand Council to Reform
KENT BARKER Reform UK has taken control of East Sussex County Council (ESCC) after receiving support from Conservative and Independent county councillors. Richard KellyEast Sussex County Hall While they do…
The Last Call
Battlelines drawn for local elections Paul McLaughlin Voters across Hastings and St Leonards will go to the polls on 7 May for what are likely to be the final local…
Candidate list
EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL Ashdown & Conquest Louise Chantal Labour and Cooperative Aidan Fisher Reform UK Stewart Rayment Liberal Democrat Roger Streeten Conservative Paula Warne Green Baird & Ore Liam…
Braverman No Show
Some 250 people gathered at the Stade on Monday morning (23 March) to protest against a visit by Suella Braverman, former Home Secretary under both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak,…
Mayoral Elections
Reform UK has selected West Sussex County councillor Paul Linehan as its candidate for the inaugural Mayor of Sussex. The military veteran, who served in the 7th Parachute Regiment Royal…
Reform UK Tops the Poll in East Sussex
Reform UK has won the East Sussex County Council (ESCC) by-election held in Ashdown and Conquest on Thursday 20 November. Aidan Fisher was elected with 32% (797) of the vote,…
Reform Politician Sidelined
PAUL McLAUGHLIN The former Hastings Borough Councillor, Lucian Fernando, claims he has been sacked by Southeastern railway because of his political views. Mr Fernando, who represented the Silverhill ward for…
IN WITH THE NEW
Green surge in council election shake-up HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council will have 12 new councillors when it reconvenes later this month. Eight are Greens; four are ; Naz Montag…
What theParties Say:
Conservatives Labour has controlled Hastings Borough Council for the past 14 years, building up huge debts and mismanaging the town's finances in the process. Recently, the local Labour Party split…
Election Preparations Gather Pace
Of the eight Hastings Independents councillors on the borough council who defected en masse from the Labour party last December, six were elected in 2022 and are thus not up…
Can you hear the election drums, Fernando?
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN In the latest of our series of interviews with the Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) of the main political parties ahead of the next General Election, we feature Lucian…
Fernando to stand for Parliament
Lucian Fernando, borough councillor for Silverhill, who left the Conservative party earlier this year and joined Reform UK, has announced that he has been selected as official parliamentary candidate for…
No Political Affiliations, says Cllr Fernando
Cllr Lucien Fernando, who became ward councillor for Silverhill on a Conservative ticket in May 2022 but has now left the party (see HIP 227), says that his future votes…
STORM OVER COUNCIL VOTES
Labour “power grab”or “far-right” gift horse? Kevin BoormanNew mayor Margi O’Callaghan and deputy Heather Bishop HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council leader Paul Barnett started his regular column in the Hastings…
Councillor Fernando – beyond party control
HUGH SULLIVAN Lucian Fernando, the man at the centre of the voting storm reported alongside, was elected to Hastings Borough Council as ward councillor for Silverhill in May 2021 on…