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LANDSLIDE
VICTORY FOR SIR KIER STARMER'S LABOUR PARTY - WIPES OUT CONSERVATIVE
CRONIES - 4TH JULY 2024. The Conservative Party has never performed as poorly in an election since the United Kingdom assumed its modern form in 1922.
But the election was also historic in another way: The country’s smaller parties have also never performed as well as they did on Thursday. That continues a decades-long shift away from a two-party system, and means that Labour’s position may be more fragile than it looks on the surface.
The Conservatives lost the most support in seats where Reform surged. In many seats where Labour won, Reform came in second place, delivering on Mr. Farage’s pledge to position the party well for the next general election, expected in 2029.
JULY
2024 GENERAL ELECTION
Rishi Sunak apologised to the nation as the outgoing
Prime Minister delivered a resignation speech from
Downing Street following Labour’s stunning election victory.
In a short statement, Mr Sunak also announced he will quit as leader of the
Conservatives. [Big
deal, what about paying reparations to the electorate for breach of
promise, and borrowing yet more money - than the country can afford?]
Speaking outside No. 10, Mr Sunak addressed the nation saying "I am sorry", adding: "I have heard your anger, your disappointment, and I take responsibility".
Elections do not change countries overnight. They reveal changes that were hidden – or visible but neglected – beneath layers of political complacency and cultural habit. The seismic event that has delivered Labour a vast haul of seats tells of tectonic pressure that started building long before Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden campaign launch six weeks ago, in what already feels like a distant land.
Although opinion polls made a Conservative defeat look inevitable, there is a difference between forecasting regime change and waking up in a Britain that has dispatched scores of Tory MPs to political oblivion and chosen
Keir Starmer to be prime minister with a commanding majority.
To what extent the results express a positive endorsement of Labour and its leader is hard to measure. The imperative to punish the Tories for years of political malpractice was palpable on the campaign trail in a way that exultant Starmer fandom was not. But contempt for an incumbent government and enthusiasm for the only available replacement are never exactly matched. The volume of
Liberal Democrat gains in some former Conservative strongholds is partly an endorsement of Ed Davey’s party, but swing voters in those constituencies knew that evicting the local Tory would help propel
Kier
Starmer into Downing Street. They were happy to take that chance.
SIR
KEIR STARMER'S LABOUR PARTY CABINET 2024
MAY
2023 LOCAL ELECTIONS
In
a staggering turnaround, the Conservative Party
hold over Wealden was
trounced during the May 2023 local elections. As you can see from the
roster below, the Liberal
Democrats have 13 seats, closely followed by the Green
Party, with 11 seats. And then another blow came in the form of 11 Independent seats,
with Labour bringing
up the rear, with just 2 seats.
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City traders ratcheted up their bets on peak UK interest rates in
response to numbers from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this
morning that showed inflation is still plaguing the economy. Market
participants now think Bank Governor Andrew Bailey and the rest of the
monetary policy committee (MPC) – the nine-strong group who set
official UK borrowing costs – will lift rates to at least six per
cent.
That would be the highest level since February 2000 and mark a huge
shift in monetary policy since the financial crisis. For over a decade
and up until December 2021, rates were near zero per cent. We can blame
post-pandemic disruptions, Putin’s war in Ukraine, or Boris Johnson.
All have played their part in creating the predicament in which the UK
finds itself. Brexit is also a malign factor, and Britain’s unique
misfortune.
A distinguished economist who sits on the Bank of England’s monetary
policy committee as an independent, calculates that Brexit has meant
prices are around 4 per cent higher than they would otherwise be thanks
to the cumulative effects of the 2016 EU referendum decision, when set
against comparable economies, not least because “no other country
chose to unilaterally impose trade barriers on its closest trading
partners.
In London, housebuilders were among the worst-performing stocks at the
close on Wednesday. Barratt Developments, Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey
were 3.9%, 4.1% and 3.5% lower, respectively.
The stocks came under pressure from the heat of inflation numbers, as
concerns of a slowdown in the housing market gathered pace. AJ Bell's
Danni Hewson said it was "no surprise" to see housebuilders
among the top fallers as the prospect of higher borrowing costs
"could prove damaging to the property market as affordability
issues become more acute."
At
a more local level, the executive housebuilding stampede championed by
Wealden's planners, makes the area less viable in terms of supporting
essential workers on a low income. Those already built, overloading
waste treatment capacity, leading to illegal discharges and fines for ,
while straining the capacity of reservoirs at Arlington, that may lead
to issues similar to that where at Swindon Magistrates court on 30 May
2023, Wessex Water Services Limited was fined £280,000 plus a £190
victim surcharge. Costs of £21,656.60 were agreed out of court. WWS
pleaded guilty to an offence under section 70 of the Water Industry Act
1991 for the supply of water unfit for human
consumption.
In
2021, Southern Water was fined a record £90 million having pleaded
guilty to 51 offences reported to involve the release of between 16 and
21 billion litres of raw sewage into sensitive marine
environments.
The water company appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on 9 July 2021 for
sentencing, after pleading guilty to the illegal discharges of sewage
which occurred between 2010 and 2015 across 17 sites in Hampshire, Kent
and West
Sussex. It is reported that the allegations concerned 6,971
discharges, which amounts to some 61,704 hours of releases.
The Environment Agency (EA) commenced their investigation after shellfish
were found to be contaminated with E. coli, a type of faecal
bacteria. The EA found that Southern Water had deliberately diverted raw
sewage away from treatment works and into the environment, which was
said to reduce the costs associated with maintaining and upgrading their
infrastructure.
Data released by the Environment Agency show Southern
Water discharged sewage into waterways 16,668
times in 2022 – lasting a total of 146,819 hours.
At Lewes, the Ham Lane pumping station released sewage into the Ouse 146
times last year (2022), lasting a total of 2,419 hours. The Environment
Agency data revealed raw sewage was spilled into English rivers
by water companies 824 times a day last year. Sewage was released into
Newhaven, by Seaford Bay
86 times, for nearly 500 hours. Ditchling saw over 1,200 hours of sewage
released into the Bevern stream with 81 spills.
All
of these discharges come from planning consents for major housing
developments, without the infrastructure to properly deal with the waste
thus generated. In our view, that makes those granting planning consents
without first obtaining confirmation of additional treatment capacity to
accompany the increase if effluence, just as guilty as the water companies
committing these crimes. Town and Country planners and planning
committees, are party to these environmental offences. There is no other
way to see it. All the more reason, for affordable housing units that
are Off-Grid water and waste wise.
It
is much the same with potholes and
dangerously rutted highways. The roads servicing the additional traffic
from new-builds, are simply not up to the task, as with water and waste
shortcomings. Our little island is limited in size, and in danger of
becoming one large toxic suburb of cardboard boxes. All of which to
generate CIL
payments, as a quick revenue top-up, followed by the excruciating death
on the nation. Shades of Maggie
Thatcher's council house sell-off. And her Poll-Tax.
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Tom
Watson
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Emily
Thornberry
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John
McDonnell
MP
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Dianne
Abbott
MP
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Nia
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Richard
Burgon
MP
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Kier
Starmer
MP
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Barry
Gardiner
MP
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Jon
Ashworth
MP
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Angela
Rayner
MP
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Rebecca
Long-Bailey
MP
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Debbie
Abrahams
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Andy
McDonald
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Andrew
Gwynne
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John
Healey
MP
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Valerie
Vaz
MP
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MP
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John
Trickett
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Lesley
Laird
MP
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Sue
Hayman
MP
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Osamor
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Dowd
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Baroness
Chakrabarti
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Lord
Bassam Brighton
MP
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Barbara
Keeley
MP
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Cat
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MP
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MP
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Thangam
Debbonaire
MP
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Harold
Wilson
Former
Prime Minister
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Lord
David Blunkett
Former
MP
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Gordon
Brown
Former
Prime Minister
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Tony
Blair
Former
Prime Minister
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Andrew Gwynne
Andy McDonald
Angela Rayner
Barbara Keeley
Baroness
Sharmi Chakrabarti CBE
Baroness
Angela Smith of Basildon
Barry Gardiner
Cat Smith
Christina Rees
David
Blunkett, Lord
Dawn Butler
Debbie Abrahams
Diane Abbott
Emily Thornberry
Gordon
Brown
Ian Lavery
Jeremy Corbyn
John Healey
John McDonnell
John
Trickett
Jon Ashworth
Kate Osamor
Keir Starmer KCB QC
Kerry
McCarty
Lesley Laird
Lord
Steven Bassam of Brighton
Mary
Creagh
Nia Griffith
Nick Brown
Owen Smith
Peter Dowd
Rebecca Long-Bailey
Richard Burgon
Sue Hayman
Thangam
Debbonaire
Tom Watson
Tony
Blair
Valerie Vaz
We
are concerned with how the make up of the above parties and (reasonably)
popular policies affects the Wealden district, because we are all
brothers on two islands in the Atlantic
Ocean and what we do or fail to do is likely to rebound on ourselves
and our fellow man in other nations around the world. How we act today
influences policies in other countries in our global community. It is
not just about us and our patch.
DISTRICT
& BOROUGH COUNCILS
East
Sussex has five District and Borough Councils, each with a border on
the coast. From west to east they are:
Eastbourne
Borough Council
Hastings
Borough Council
Lewes
District Council
Rother
District Council
Wealden
District Council
There
is also East
Sussex County Council as the provider of services to the 5 East
Sussex districts.
As
near neighbours and with councils now sharing facilities and working
together, these area of Sussex are included in our remit and an area
where climate
change and affordable
housing are issues that need urgent attention. Where the coastline
is a feature in every Council, Blue
Growth is a food
security issue, especially where this side of of our local economy
is under-exploited.