Category: Politics
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It’s not the end of the world… or is it?
I put a status update on Facebook expressing my frustration about all these EU experts around me thinking Brexit is a more important issue than all the lives that are falling apart and being lost around us right now.
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Neoliberalism v People?
It was a “public consultation” apparently – or was it a “community forum”? Anyway, it was being run by a couple of people from Post Office Ltd, who didn’t take very kindly to a community leader suggesting that if it was a community forum, the attendees, being locals, were in charge of it.
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Why guns won’t save Amber Rudd
Donnachadh McCarthy has been arrested numerous times. Why? He was never a violent man, never a criminal of any kind. He was a classical ballet dancer until a few seconds before someone said “you were supposed to catch him just then.”
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I feel like doing a bit of roaring
Hastings Town Centre Post Office has gone. The building is still there, with its Mercury heads on the window capitals presiding sadly over empty space. There was some talk of turning it into a Nandos. Oh good. We need another restaurant. We campaigned, we argued, we persisted – our MP, Amber Rudd, presided over a ‘consultation’ which asked everyone what they would rather have *instead of* their Post Office.
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The great government debt scam
I’m delighted to have a guest-post here from Keith Lindsay-Cameron, the man who’s famous around social media for writing a letter a day to number 10. It is a fantastic addition to our information for campaigners and activists collection – KG.
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Slash, Trash and Privatise
“The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it” – probably there are more people arguing about which politician misquoted which here than there are seriously fighting for the NHS – but whoever said it, the statement appears to be true.
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More listening – really, really more listening
Having trouble with canvassing, political conversations on Facebook, in the pub or even round the dinner table at home? This could be just what you need…
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Robert Tressell didn’t have Broadband
So, my mobile phone went squiffy and a couple of days later the phone-lines went down, leaving me the choice of the sort-of functional computers at the children’s library or life off-line. The worst thing was, after a few days of it, the temptation to try and get news from mainstream TV.
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Bloody cat!
I don’t really think love and hate are opposites – saying so gives hate a power it doesn’t deserve but I’d like to say this…
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I never thought I’d write a 1500 word essay on toilets, but here comes one…
On the 28th April, many local residents received a letter from Amber Rudd, First Class, and produced on House of Commons notepaper.
Kay Green 