Tag: Politics
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What to do about immigration
Okay, for the sake of argument, let’s do what politicians are always so keen for us to do – let’s worry about immigration. It is after all very sad that so many people are wandering the world, desperately looking for a safe place they can stay. People are moving around a lot in our times.…
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Reassurance For Helena Dollimore MP
Okay, I’m sorry – it’s a joke. Apparently, Ms Dollimore was very upset by the ‘WANTED’ poster that’s been posted around the town, the one that reads WANTED: a straight answer from Helena Dollimore so I thought I’d give her a bit of reassurance after the style of Dennis Skinner’s famous retraction. (You remember –…
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Over to you men!
***Guest post by Paula Boulton*** Over to you now men! We women are exhausted. We’re handing over the baton to you. Here’s to broadening the bandwidth of manhood to include those who present as female. After all, they are your brothers and fathers and sons and uncles too! And can we now acknowledge that those…
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Scurrilous sex scams
I am appalled by the dramatic nonsense being bandied around over this week’s judicial review about the Equality Act. It’s not just the gender ideology cultists, although they are out there spouting turbo-charged nonsense. It’s those MPs, journos and high-profile commentators who still, incredibly, write, speak and tweet on this topic with no regard for…
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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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Who are we?
Who are we, the monstrous, pitiless, violent, racist enemy you can’t understand, and can’t defeat? How did we become the despicable, cruel demons you stare at daily in horror? How do we do it? We take our children, as they approach adulthood, and put them in a heroic cult-army where at first they have adventurous…
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Hastings connections
(Hastings loves fireworks) Hastings, UK, has twin town relationships with Béthune (France), Oudenaarde (Belgium), Dordrecht (The Netherlands), and Schwerte (Germany), and Hastings in Sierra Leone, West Africa. I think we’re twinned with the first three because councillors have friends or trade links there. I guess with the last one, it’s because of the name, although…
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What’s a fiscal black hole, and how do you fix it?
It’s what you get when the magic money-tree suffers a crop failure. I don’t know whether our old MP Amber Rudd was the first one to claim “there is no magic money tree”, but she was most definitely one of those stashing their income in tax havens whilst telling us there was no magic solution…
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Rule One: Don’t give up
There’s lots to do, and plenty of people are in action, learning more every day about how it’s done. First, how it’s not done: I think most people have worked out that our party-political system is – if not broken, certainly captured, and not doing what it says on the tin. It’s taking us a…
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Hastings needs a strong voice
On the probable demise of HBC, and a possible citizens’ answer In the first week of the New Year I said this on FB… I was in a towering rage. Sure, the utterly destructive nature of party politics in recent years had pretty much disabled our local council and yes, a dysfunctional council is hard…
Kay Green 