Tag: Paul Barnett
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Yay! Local politics just got really interesting again
Hastings has joined the growing roll of councils where politics is still alive. We’ve just developed a rebel indie group. My former socialist Labour colleagues have all been screaming at our remaining socialist councillors to step up and help the growing support for #Ceasefire in Gaza … well — I don’t know how many took…
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What do junior doctors deserve?
Junior doctors get what looks to me like a very generous salary when they’ve been working their ***ses orf for about eight years in our desperately overstretched NHS. Just how hard would you work, just how much overtime would you accept, just how much life-or-death responsibility would you bear, in a job that would pay…
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Is party politics beyond redemption?
When even the best Labour councillors are hamstrung by a dysfunctional Party and Yellow is yet another shade of Blue — then you find Greens are not necessarily good for you… I joined a proudly socialist CLP in 2016, when we all saw the Party moving to the left. I was Vice-Chair in the 2017…
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Are you still demanding better?
Please don’t stop demanding better! Whilst the mainstream news outlets think we’re really interested in watching the Conservative Party choose which member of the government that has been driving the cost-of-living crisis should be Prime Minister next… …we are busy demanding better. Please don’t stop. I went down to Hastings Station today to talk to…
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This is what we’ve been waiting for
Hastings Demands Better is one of a series of meetings being held in the region by the South Eastern TUC, leading up to the big demo against the cost-of-living crisis, to be held in London on 18th June. Yes, we gather to tell the government we cannot and will not put up with any more…
Kay Green 