http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:12:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Saturday Jason launched the Conservative's campaign for the Town Council By-Election. The local Conservative candidate Dave Neave is well known to many people of Newhaven through running his car repair business D & M Motor Company in Quarry Road Newhaven, for the last 25 years. He is also secretary of ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/jason-launches-by-election-campaign/ The Post Office in Claremont Road has had all its Post Office equipment removed. This is despite assurances by Government that further consultations will take place. This withdrawal of services follows a recent exchange in the House of Commons when Conservative MP for Wealden Charles Hendry asked why some Post Offices ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/seaford-claremont-road-post-office-closes/ Jason today expressed concern at new figures which warn that 5 million families across Britain could be at risk of defaulting on mortgage payments and losing their home. The analysis, conducted by The Spectator magazine using data from credit agencies, shows that over 2200 households in Lewes Parliamentary Constituency have a ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/local-families-homes-at-risk/ New figures this week reveal that the tax take from council tax bills have more than doubled under the present Labour Government. Locally the tax take by Lewes District Council has soared by an estimated £25 million under a Labour Government and a Liberal Democrat District Council. The news comes ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/jason-slams-local-council-tax-rises/ Labour put another nail in the coffin of our Post Offices this week when it blocked a Conservative motion in Parliament that would have suspended government plans to shut 2,500 Post Offices, including many in our local area. But yet again Labour MPs closed ranks to stop action being taken to ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/post-offices-still-under-threat/ Caroline Spelman, Conservative Party Chairman, introduced members to the idea of Friends of the Party at a lively meeting in Lewes on Monday where she met with senior members of the Lewes Constituency Party. Mrs Spelman told members about the brand new way of becoming a member. She explained "by becoming ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/we-intend-to-win-lewes/ Last Wednesday MP’s rejected the opportunity to grasp their last chance at forcing a referendum on the unpopular EU Lisbon Treaty. The local Liberal Democrat MP surprised locals by abstaining from the vote. It is with regret that I believe the vast majority of voters in Lewes, Newhaven, Polegate, Seaford and ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/sugarman-demands-referendum-on-eu-treaty/ Gray’s primary school in Newhaven was visited recently by Jason and Jim Paice MP, the shadow Agriculture Minister. They had come particularly to see the vegetables, flowers and herbs grown by the children, in tractor tyres supplied by Roger Foxwell, a local farmer. The tyres are a convenient and safe way ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/school-praised-for-growing-its-own-food/ After twenty years of the current flood defence scheme, the need to continuously shore up and move the shingle around Seaford Beach is now starting to cause widespread local concern in it’s accessibility and safety for users. In short, Seaford Beach is a shadow of what it once was and is ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/dangers-on-seaford-beach/ Jason has joined local people from Seaford in the fight to prevent the Environment Agency destroying the beautiful and iconic Cuckmere Valley. The Environment Agency plans to flood the Cuckmere Valley by breaching the embankments allowing the incoming tides to swamp the valley with seawater and by non-clearance of the river ... http://www.jasonsugarman.org.uk/news/save-cuckmere-valley/