Category: Politics
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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…
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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.
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Our Election Campaign (not theirs)
I don’t follow sport closely but from my viewpoint the main role of a manager seems to be that of scapegoat. Player falls over own feet and his team loses? SACK THE MANAGER!
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The last blog before the election from a ker-nackered campaigner
How many desperate conversations, how many sessions of leaflet waving and door-knocking, how many brain-cells battering against the algorithms trying to send the message where other messages cannot reach? How much? How long? How far? How, how, how?
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About the Censorship at Rye Hustings ***updated***
***UPDATED*** So who is Nick Wilson, and why is Amber Rudd so scared of him?
Kay Green 