andrewwedmore, Author at Rother

The housing crisis and homelessness – a recent article by Dominic Manning, chair of Rother Green Party

13 November 2023 / 30 October 2023 by andrewwedmore

I have been thinking a lot about homelessness over the last couple of months. Thanks to a call-out from someone at the Rye Food Bank, a homeless man – let’s call him John – has been living with me since the beginning of September. His home prior to that is pictured above. His tent has […]

Climate crisis: delay is denial – recent article by Dominic Manning, chair of Rother Green Party

6 November 2023 / 30 October 2023 by andrewwedmore

It’s easy to get all doom and gloom about the climate. The good news is that there are now very few people who ignore the science. The vast majority of us know there’s a problem and want to see action. But while the deniers have moved to the margins we’re now faced with another tribe […]

Polly and Arren say “thank you” Bexhill

29 October 2023 by andrewwedmore

Stunning victories for Greens in Rother District Council elections

7 May 2023 by andrewwedmore

The Green Party celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year and when England went to the polls on Thursday we achieved our most significant electoral results in half a century. Across the country we made a net gain of more than 200 seats. Here in Rother Polly Gray was re-elected in Bexhill Old Town and Worsham. […]

Rother Green Party oppose use of former Northeye prison for housing asylum seekers

5 April 2023 by andrewwedmore

Statement from Rother Green Party on the Proposed Housing of Asylum Seekers at Northeye 5th April 2023 Rother Green Party opposes housing people seeking asylum at the former Northeye prison. Conditions there are unsanitary, inhumane and inappropriate. We also have serious reservations about concentrating significant numbers of asylum seekers in small numbers of locations. It […]

Rother Greens call for Big Five energy companies to be brought into public ownership to stabilise market and protect consumers

25 August 2022 / 25 August 2022 by andrewwedmore

Green Party sets out plan to restore the energy price cap to rate of October 2021 Intervention would reduce the cost to the average household in Rother by more than £2,000 The Green Party is calling for the big five energy suppliers to be brought into public ownership and the price of energy to be […]

Ideas to make your holiday greener

8 August 2022 / 8 August 2022 by andrewwedmore

Rother Green Party Membership officer (and keen cyclist) Sue Burton writes: If you are planning to go somewhere new this summer even for a weekend there are positive actions you can take to make your holiday a little kinder on the planet. They are not new ideas but good ones to remind ourselves of. Travel […]