Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Does anyone have any photos of the Crawley Mela which show the Wealden UAF/Crawley Campaign Against Racism stall or which show all the crowds wearing UAF/Unite badges?
If so, are you willing to let us have a copy for future UAF leaflets or the website? No payment (we are saving funds for campaigning) but full [...]

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I have just written about how I think one of our councillors is not only a part-time councillor, but one who is probably in breach of some or other code of conduct in Adur and who stood under false pretenses, but there are some interesting minor details to it all.
I can thoroughly recommend a look [...]

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In May we fought the election in Furnace Green ward with two main points. I’ll admit that ‘fought’ might be a bit of a strong word as we didn’t really do much there: knowing that it was unlikely to be a gain for us we only gave it a little time and only produced [...]

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Got a nice “I told you so”-type post I am dying to write. I think its better left for a few days while I dig up a bit more information but its killing me to not just run with it now, and I’m a bit worried the local papers might get there first.

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I still can’t believe that I was persuaded to swap at the last minute from standing in Maidenbower to standing in Furnace Green. I was always prepared to be a paper candidate, but can’t totally swallow my pride and must have thought that losing by 600 votes was preferable to losing by 1200, forgetting [...]

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Only a few hours until the polls open and, more importantly, less than 22 hours until they close. I will be so glad when it is all over and we can continue with a normal life again. This year I must try to remember how knackered I am now when the selection process [...]

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The other day I had confirmation of the date for our Crawley/Horsham UAF meeting. It will be in the Friary, Crawley - right next to the bus and railway stations - on May 23rd. I will be trying to do my best to promote it to see if we can get a decent [...]

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Two examples of bare-faced cheek today, one which amused me and one which amazed me.
The one which amazed me was Tottenham Hotspurs’ reaction to being given a bye to the last 16 of the UEFA cup. The story is that they were to play Feyenoord, but Feyenoord got into some trouble over crowd violence, so [...]

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The other day Antonia wrote about some statistics released by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with particular emphasis (obviously) on how they apply to Oxford. Just as obviously I could not resist looking them up to see how the JRF think we are doing in Crawley.
It is worth mentioning something first about how the figures [...]

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This weekend was the Crawley Mela at the Hawth theatre.
I think the crawley Mela is a bit unusual. Traditionally a Mela is an Asian festival, and tends to feature mostly culture from the Indian sub-continent. Our one tends to spread its net a bit wider. The organisers made a point of saying [...]

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