Tag: local elections
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To our HBC councillors

Dear Councillor, if you’re reading this – I know you’re busy people. There’s a letter to you in the second half of the text. Feel free to scroll straight on down to the bit headed “Can we please re-discover that word “no”? Long-gone local authorities I remember when “the authorities” were in Wellington Square. If…
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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…
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Are you independent enough to stand up for Hastings?

I was a member of the Green Party once. I was an enthusiastic Labour Party officer for a while. I am out of patience with party politics altogether just now – and you know, my opinions haven’t changed much. What is the point of going on supporting an organization because it once had policies you…