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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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Party politics could be our biggest problem
I’ve used the header pic here, and the rosette collection pic below, several times before. They come from a night we in Hastings called “Rock the Vote”. It was 2017, and Red and Green activists, with a token presence from the local Lib Dem candidate, and a lot of people with no strong party affiliation,…
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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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The Crime of the Century
There used to be a shop called Supertramp in Robertson Street (the second most shoppingy street in our town centre). It was gorgeous. I was a bright-eyed teen, eager to get to the independent-with-money-in-your-pocket stage of growing up. It was my persistent inner vision of shops like Supertramp, full of records and posters and books…
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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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Kay Green 