Well done to Suffolk Coastal Conservative Association for choosing some local candidates in their short list. One of the depressing things about the professionalisation of politics has been the growth of the short lists with members who have no links to the constituency.
Another mess like Ipswich North would be too much.
Bridge Ward News
News from Bridge Ward, Ipswich including the Hayes, Old Stoke, Prince of Wales Drive, Maidenhall Estate and Wherstead Road
Browsing the blog archives for January, 2010
31 Jan 10
Suffolk Coastal gets it right
29 Jan 10
Ipswich Underground resources
One of the most frequent searches I get is for the Ipswich Underground.
I’m not really how I can say this nicely but IT NEVER EXISTED.
However here are some links:
The Ipswich Star discussion
A transport forum discusses this
The Flickr group
And the page that started the whole thing
27 Jan 10
Is Ipswich set for a hard left takeover?
Sorry for the Daily Mail type headline, but this little comment invited it:
http://www.davidosler.com/2010/01/hewitt_hoon_and_hubris.html#comment-40564
Ipswich’s very own Andrew Coates manages to fit in quite a few little allegations:
- Ipswich Labour, led by John Cook the Norwich North candidate (the “full-time Secretary-Agent”) is busy building links and working closely with the “hard left”
- The Ipswich Buses campaign is [...]
26 Jan 10
A step towards decent buses on Wherstead Road
A pioneering agreement in Oxford may be able to offer hope to people on Wherstead Road. Wherstead Road is plagued by sporadic bus services, which would be far more tolerable if they were properly spaced out. Under typically stupid European Union rules this cannot be changed because there are a number of different operators on the [...]
25 Jan 10
The cement ship is in port
The cement ship has been spotted in port, coming in this morning. I noticed a hum at Belstead Avenue at 6.40 in the morning, but it wasn’t that intrusive.
If anyone else notices the hum, or doesn’t notice it, then it would be appreciated if you can let us know. This is going to be a [...]
18 Jan 10
Ipswich Buses: Chris Mole could stop it
The Council runs a bus service. They want to sell it off. There is a big local campaign led by the local (and under threat) Labour MP. The government minister in charge says that while sympathetic, there’s nothing he wants to do, saying that it’s up to councils.
But it’s not Ipswich, it’s Plymouth. And the [...]
16 Jan 10
Ipswich2006.com Domain hijack
The Ipswich2006.com domain has been hijacked. This was a great site with a lot of old photographs and memories, particularly around Old Stoke. Now if you go to the domain it’s been hijacked by some comparison site:
http://www.ipswich2006.com/
There’s still a discussion site here:
http://www.mrsite.co.uk/uforum/default.aspx?siteid=ipswich2006com&domain=ipswich2006.com
The ownership details are here (I have no idea if they are current or [...]
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15 Jan 10
Heart Campaign: Ben Gummer’s Advance
The Evening Star has a piece about a substantial step forward in the campaign to stop heart services being removed from Ipswich hospital. Would it have been at all possible without Ben Gummer’s campaign and investigation?
In other words if had been left to Chris Mole then the heart services would have gone. There’s no use [...]
