Tag archives for Sally-Ann Hart
Teachers to Strike Over School Trust Management
MERLIN BETTS On Saturday 8 June the National Education Union (NEU) held a meeting to consult with parents and the public on possible strike action against University of Brighton Academies…
School Strike Threatened Over ‘Diversion’ of Funding
The University of Brighton Academies Trust (UBAT) has been accused of diverting excessive sums of money from two individual secondary schools which it governs, St Leonards Academy and the Hastings…
Academy Gravy-Train
JENNY SUTTON of the National Education Union says it is unconscionable for Academy Trusts to denude school budgets by creaming off excessive funds for ‘central services’, and that all Academies…
Long Term Plan Fund: Meet the Board
HUGH SULLIVAN In addition to receipt of £20 million capital investments under DLUHC’s Levelling Up Partnership Scheme, Hastings has been selected as one of 75 towns to receive another £20m…
LEVELLING UP FUNDS RAIDED TO COMPLETE LINK ROAD
£ Cash Gap Plugged out of Awards to Hastings and Rother HUGH SULLIVAN On 25 March the Westminster government announced that Hastings borough and Rother district will receive targeted cash…
Hastings is No Place for Hate
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Hastings Town Hall Community Hub hosted a free event earlier this month (9 March) to help raise awareness of efforts to tackle hate crime within the town. Hastings…
Legitimate Protest vs Mob Rule
SIMON HESTER, convenor of Hastings Stand Up To Racism and chair of Hastings & District Trades Union Council says that, far from mob rule, marches like this Saturday’s in London…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Bonfire Symbols Dear HIP, I went to the Bonfire night for the first time and was really impressed by the organisation and great family atmosphere of the event. However, I…
Sally-Ann Hart
Paul McLaughlin The marginal parliamentary constituency of Hastings and Rye is a bellwether seat, which tends to elect an MP from the party that goes on to form the government.…
Local parents demand meeting with MP over climate U-turns
JEN ROUSE After news that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is rolling back a range of climate targets, parents from the Hastings group of Parents For Future have written to Sally-Ann…
Hart explains absence from parliamentary vote
When Parliament voted on 19 June to support its Privileges Committee in censuring Boris Johnson over his lies concerning Downing Street parties held during Covid lockdowns, 118 Conservatives joined opposition…
Carers Week: Celebrating Diversity
PAUL McLAUGHLIN The Isabel Blackman Centre hosted the launch of Carers Week last Saturday (10 June), with local MP Sally-Ann Hart and the new Mayor of Hastings, Cllr Margi O’Callaghan, in attendance.…
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…
More Raw Sewage Woes for Sally Ann Hart
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Local Conservative MP Sally-Ann Hart has been forced to issue an apology on the floor of the House of Commons after incorrectly claiming that Labour’s Jim McMahon, the…
Hart wins membership backing
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Following an online ballot of local party members, sitting MP Sally-Ann Hart has been re-selected to stand as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Hastings and Rye at the…
Battle lines drawn on clean water campaign
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Government policy and programmes to stem the number of Channel crossings made by small boats of migrants/refugees are likely to be at the forefront of rival claims and…
Bathers Going Through the Motions
BY PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Hundreds of environmental campaigners recently gathered in St Leonards for the unveiling of a mock Blue Plaque to highlight the continued dumping of raw sewage into the…
Losing Hart?
BY HUGH SULLIVAN AND PAUL MCLAUGHLIN The political insider website Guido Fawkes reported last Sunday that the executive of the Hastings & Rye Conservative Association has voted not to re-adopt…
Hastings Demands the End of Execution and Immoral Detention
By Pal LuthraNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released on 16 March 2022 by the Islamic Republic of Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s CEO, said: “Nazanin and Anoosheh should never have…
Hart endorses Sunak
Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings & Rye, has broken her silence on the Conservative leadership contest, endorsing Rishi Sunak as prospective successor to Boris Johnson. She issued a statement on…
Party Politics Get Personal Internal turmoil for both Labour and Tories
Following on from our lead report in HIP 204 that Cllr Maya Evans has been excluded from a “long list” of prospective Labour party candidates for the next parliamentary election…
Sally-Ann Sets Three Oaks Test
In a parliamentary session last week, Hastings & Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart challenged Matt Warman, the under-secretary of state at the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), to…
Tiers and Fears
Positive tests for coronavirus infections in Hastings were reported last week to have increased almost fourfold within a seven day period. In the week ending 28th November there were 63…
Tories on Hastings Borough Council vote against Equality
Jay Kramer, Vice Chair of Hastings & Rye Constituency Labour Party and former Deputy Leader of Hastings Borough Council with responsibility for Equality, tells us about a recent HBC meeting…
Free food for kids
On 21st October a parliamentary motion to provide around disadvantaged children in England with £15-a-week food vouchers during school holidays until Easter 2021 was voted down by the Conservative government…
Breaking Our Word?
Last Monday (14th September) Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye, voted with the Conservative majority in the House of Commons to approve the government’s Internal Market Bill, despite admission…
Deal Us In!
West St Leonards community groups seek share in Town Deal to fund development alternatives Since October last year, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has been insisting that it is on the…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…