Category: activism
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Why would anyone want to be a councillor?
I decided to go to a Borough Council meeting last night. Walking back afterwards with a member of Hastings Jews for Justice, who’d come along to find out what happened to the latest attempt at a ceasefire motion for Gaza, I said I’d be writing about what happened that evening and she asked me if…
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Assembling on the Green
At my gran’s house when I was a kid, getting to know the neighbours was something that mainly happened on the village green. We’d all gather there on Fridays, waiting for the fish-and-chip van, on Morris Dancing days, and for all sorts of other reasons so it’s strange that I’ve lived where I am for…
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Incredibly detailed election analysis
No, please, don’t do any more election analysis! There were one or two points worth noting – this one, for example… That Starmer could call Corbyn a failure in 2019 when he got over twelve million votes, and then claim a phenomenal success on nine million in 2024 demonstrates at a stroke that most of…
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Hastings: election prospects and what comes next…
Well they arrived en masse today. Couldn’t see the doormat. So, time for a round-up. We know most of us can’t get what we actually want this election, Labour will probably win on a third of the vote — of those who bother to vote — but here’s my take on the choices in Hastings,…
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Please read on…
…and it’ll be a Labour government that does it. The Tories are dead in the water. Don’t WORRY about THEM. You don’t HAVE to vote Labour to get the Tories out. Look for electable independents and support them, so we don’t end up with an NHS-selling Labour government AND A RIGHT WING OPPOSITION. Please click…
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Just Stop Obfusticating
Last time I saw Stonehenge I was in the modern world. Quite glad of the almost permanent slowing of through-traffic, which infuriates the ‘get there yesterday’ people, and gives everyone else the chance to take a look at the stones in passing. We discussed it a bit, sitting on a picnic bench on the concrete…
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***Emergency call out***
Our NHS is on its knees. Parts of it are now so embroiled in profiteers’ contracts, or tied up in debts as a result of past “public private partnerships” that politicians are able to get away with saying reinstatement is impossible. Difficult it may be, but reinstatement is vital. People are already dying, and suffering…
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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…
Kay Green 