Today marks the official launch of the 2019 General Election campaign and in the coming weeks we hope to bring you a genuinely balanced overview of what all the main parties are saying and what each of the candidates fighting to become OUR next Member of Parliament think they can do for OUR town. What […]
Rugby League is a tough sport and from the pugnacious approach he is taking to his campaigning it’s easy to understand how Liberal Democrat Nick Perry found himself playing the sport to a very high level. The man who is making his fourth attempt to become Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye won a […]
This morning on Radio Sussex Rob Lee, the leader of the Conservative group on Hastings Borough Council (HBC), confirmed that he has thrown his hat in the ring to become the Conservative candidate for Hastings and Rye. Members of the local Labour and Liberal Democratic parties appear to expect either Mr Lee or Rother councillor […]
As has been his style all year Liberal Democrat Nick Perry is taking the election battle to his opponents. With the news that it’s now almost certain that we will go to the polls on December 12th in the third General Election in just over four years Mr Perry is already on the attack: “Where Jo […]
Amber Rudd does not believe Boris Johnson is really trying to get deal She finds his attack on Tory dissenters anti-democratic She found his treatment of her friends and colleagues cruel In an announcement that shocked her local association Hastings MP Amber Rudd last night dropped a political bombshell when she resigned her seat at […]
Amber Rudd is being challenged over what her opponents describe as her ‘about-face’ on Brexit and why she supports the suspension of Parliament by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The Hastings and Rye MP has ‘let down’ the people of Hastings and Rye, according to a joint statement by Labour’s Peter Chowney, the Liberal Democrats’ Nick […]
This time yesterday Nick Perry announced he would be the Lib Dem candidate in Hastings and Rye in any snap General Election and this morning broadcast and print media is full of speculation that that national poll might just be weeks away. Within hours of his announcement Mr Perry was being criticised for planning to […]
Hastings and Rye Liberal Democrats put themselves on a war footing at the weekend when they confirmed that Nick Perry will be their candidate when a General Election is called and they are ready for that contest whether it comes sooner or later. Mr Perry, who lives on the West Hill, has fought the Hastings […]
From November if your train from Hastings or Rye is delayed by 15 minutes then you’ll be in line for a compensation payment under a new ‘Delay repay 15’ scheme. Any passenger delayed by 15 minutes or more will be able to ask for cash back. It comes after local MP Amber Rudd took the […]
