Hundreds Face Crisis
Council plea to extend moratorium on evictions By Emma Harwood Hundreds of families and residents across the town will face pain, crisis and homelessness unless the government extends its ban on evictions, the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Homelessness has…
MP Says No To Protecting NHS
Hastings and Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart was among 340 MPs – 339 of whom were Conservative – who voted against protecting the NHS in post-Brexit trade ; The ‘clause 17’ amendment to the Trade Bill, proposed by Green Party MP…
Cross-Channel Migration –The Fallacy
As those who campaign on behalf of asylum-seeking refugees point out, there is a fundamental fallacy at the heart of the Home Office policy spelt out by Immigration Minister Chris Philp (see the parliamentary exchanges here). Mr Philp refers to…
Parliamentary Language
Extract from Debate at Westminster 8th June 2020 John Redwood, MP for Wokingham: Does not also require tougher enforcement against the dreadful people traffickers who are making money out of making a mockery of our laws and undermining all that we…
Transport Futures For The South-East: More Road-Building?
Last October, Transport for the South East (TfSE), a forum combining leading local government councillors across southern counties from Hampshire to Kent, with senior representatives of Network Rail and Highways England, unveiled a draft document for consultation –‘Strategy for the…
Pier Update:
Council Serves Control Notice, Gulzar Woos MP Following months of complaint from local critics that the owner of the pier, Sheikh Abid Gulzar, and his management company Lions Hastings Pier Limited were failing to comply with planning conditions, building control…
Positive Start For West St Leonards Forum
The West St Leonards Forum, with funding support from Common Treasury and Locality, recently launched a campaign to encourage residents and local amenity groups to work together for a better future for West St Leonards. The campaign started with the…
Disability And The Minimum Wage
What Was Actually Said The following exchanges – extracted and distorted across the national media – took place at the HIP Hastings Hustings at East Sussex College last Thursday evening when the four electoral candidates in the constituency of Hastings…
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…