Category: activism
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I’m stonkingly angry — with nice people
It’s hard to explain how angry I am today and, even if I manage that, it’s harder still to explain why the people who’ve made me angriest aren’t those who keep accusing me of all manner of insulting things, it’s the nice people – yes, quite possibly you, dear reader. It’s like this… In my…
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A manifesto for the people
This is the best manifesto I’ve seen so far. Want to play guess the party…? Palestine: Solidarity with the Palestinian people — stop funding and arming Israel’s genocide, prosecute the war criminals and recognise the Palestinian State. Austerity: End austerity and properly fund local and national public services by taxing the rich and big business.…
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I don’t care who wins the election in my town
Nevertheless, this is a song of hope… What shall I call the introduction to this essay – “me and politics – a potted history”? I know many other people have been on similar journeys to mine, so I can do it in a couple of paragraphs, and I ask you to forgive it, because it’s…
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July 4th: Independents’ Day?
Will it be Independents’ Day? Or Green day? Or Galloway day? Or hold-your-nose-and-vote-Labour day? It has to be Get the Tories Out Day. Some people are determined to vote Labour, and are saying we all need to get behind Starmer to get the Tories out. You won’t change those people, and that’s most likely what…
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Hurty feelz
My town has just experienced a stinking rotten council campaign in which the combined forces of the Labour and Green and Tory campaigns seemed to focus on a visceral desire to discredit a sitting candidate, a woman rejected by Labour, who went on to do a couple of useful years as a member of an…
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Oh no, a MAN lost his job!
Is that the headline that’ll get the attention we need on this issue? The crime…. The consequences… Up until now, it was mostly older women who got ‘switched off’, ‘cancelled’, because of the inconvenient noise trans activists made. Let’s get one thing straight — it’s not unpopular opinions people get cancelled for, nor is it…
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On being killed by politicians
It’s happening all over the world. There are several countries in Africa where people are currently yelling for attention to mass murders — but we in the bit of the world that calls itself The West are used to hearing about death in Africa. We ignore mass murder in Africa and, until recently, when the…
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Living with privatized ‘services’
The header pic is a screenshot from Southern Water’s latest self-promoting newsletter, passed to me in the week they managed to leave 31,000 households in Hastings with no water coming out of their taps, in some cases for five days straight. Southern’s incident updates made much of the fact that they set up three ‘water…
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Why we all hate Southern Water
Over the last few years, as utility bills have pushed more and more of us onto the breadline, and increasing numbers are falling over the edge into destitution, Hastings has had numerous problems with both electricity and water supplies. Water is the big issue just now. In my part of town, the taps ran dry…
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Braybrooke – I will be voting after all!
I always write a blog about my ward’s elections just before voting day. I really thought I wouldn’t this year, local politics being as it’s been lately but – look, I’m doing it! This has been a very strange election campaign period for me – a few years ago, I would have been right in…
Kay Green 