I’ve had a couple of polite emails from my hosting service that I’m almost at my monthly bandwidth limit as in the last few months the bandwidth usage has been creeping up and is now three times what it was a couple of months ago. This has not been helped by the Israeli, Russian and South [...]
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 February, 2010
26 Feb 10
Route 66: We need collaboration
Dame Bryony Rudkin (it’s a matter of time, mark my words, so we better start using the title now) has been blessing us with her representative skills at the council and asked about the Wherstead Road route.
On a serious note we should not simply be asking why the route shut down, Suffolk will say it’s [...]
24 Feb 10
This is why you need a stint of opposition, Comrade Ross
I’m going to spend most of this post annoying my Labour supporting readers, so I might as well start by annoying the Tories. The worst election for the Tories was not 1997, but 1992. They needed a time in opposition and the win in 1992 convinced them that they were invincible. The lost their humility, [...]
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24 Feb 10
Rats, Eurocrats and other vermin
Bin collections are probably not the most exciting thing for most people, but I know that if I miss a collection it can be four or six weeks before I can stop collecting the overflow rubbish in plastic bags. That this is down to stupid pointless rules from Brussels is no surprise. The Eurosceptic Daniel [...]
23 Feb 10
First Eastern Buses Meeting
I was at the meeting yesterday with Alan Pilbeam, the managing director of First Eastern Counties, pleading the case for some sort of service to replace the Route 66. We didn’t expect much, we didn’t get much. Hopefully someone from First Eastern Counties will be talking to the Wherstead Road residents soon. It would also [...]
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22 Feb 10
Nothings too good for this Worker
At Bridge Ward News we can understand why “Dame” (it can only be a matter of time) Bryony Rudkin doesn’t have us on her Christmas card list. It hurts, obviously, as we’ve decided that she is one of the treasures of Bridge Ward. OK, she’s not a great representative, but that’s to misunderstand her essence. [...]
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21 Feb 10
Oh No Hide! Now Chris Mole joins in
I owe an apology to Chris Mole. When Gordon Brown visited Ipswich I said that it goes without saying that a three year old has more sense than a Labour MP. However I was wrong. Chris Mole has had the same reaction as the three year old “Oh no. Hide.”
If you look at his press [...]
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21 Feb 10
Is this how Labour will privatise Ipswich Buses?
There’s an enigma in Labour’s stance on Ipswich Buses. The Labour Party knows that if the buses remain in municipal hands without any help, then as the second smallest bus operator in the country they will be susceptible to a strike from First Group. First Group could, as it has done to other small operators, [...]
