Old wounds are being reopened this weekend as Hastings councillor Leah Levane is billed to speak at a rally in London that will be discussing what it describes as ‘the right to free speech on the subject of Israel and Palestine’. Ms Levane, who represents Castle Ward on Hasting Borough Council (HBC) and is also […]
What was being widely tipped by council-watchers as a potentially acrimonious and divisive debate on where Hastings Borough Council stands on anti-semitism turned out to be something of a damp squib for those expecting fireworks! With the exception of Councillor Leah Levane, who abstained, all other members present at last night’s ‘virtual’ council meeting agreed […]
It’s two months since the General Election that saw the Labour Party nationally achieve its worst result since 1935. In Hastings and Rye there had been a strong expectation that Labour could win the seat back from the Conservatives but, just as across the rest of the UK, many traditional supporters abandoned their usual preference to […]
The man who chairs the local Labour party has hit out criticism levelled against his party by local MP Amber Rudd who said earlier this week, “Jewish people in Hastings and Rye deserve far better than a local Labour Party obsessed with peddling conspiracy theories about Jewish people.” Ken Maitland, chair of Hastings and Rye […]
