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Our councillors may think that we are moaning about nothing and maligning the far left unions but it was grim to be a commuter during the strike.  Sadly the RMT won’t compensate us for their strike to increase their pay rise so you will have to make do with National Express. 

Click here to get your compensation.

I would be very interested if someone could help me find some television footage of Councillor Phil Smart on the local news on Tuesday 4th August.  He was interviewed outside Ipswich Station (it was nice of him to make it so far from his house) in which he talked about the train strike.

This self described transport guru was saying how easy he found to get to work, without making it clear that he was commuting into northern Essex rather than London, like so many of his constituents.  Why he was making light of this appalling treatment of the far left rail unions by this councillor elected in 1983 is a mystery that I find it hard to resolve.

Now why would a 1980s era Labour councillor make light of the plight of his constituents in a way that covers up the actions of Marxist led trade union? 

The electricity cut that caught those of us in Rectory Road (as well as Wherstead Road, Station Street and who knows where else) did not come on in our house until 1.30 pm because they had somehow managed to trip our power switch and we had to call out an electrician.  Luckily we did not open the fridge or freezer or we could have been throwing away almost a weeks worth of food. 

These cuts have been very frequent in the last six months, even if not as long lasting. 

So our MP is put in charge of the roads and railways and within days Ipswich station is struck by lightening and the A14 is flooded and blocked by a crash.  Next we’ll be having plagues of frogs and locusts. Either the Almighty is displeased or Chris Mole is cursed with terrible luck.

Like many people who live in Bridge I was held up in the drama today.  For once I’m not going to moan about the railway company, who did the best they could under extraordinary circumstances – and if a chimney being struck by lightening is not extraordinary then I don’t what is.  In the end we were held up for one and a half hours – although the flow of information was constant and reassuring, and the staff pulled together. 

Ipswich station was also well run considering that it had been evacuated just twenty minutes before we got there, with even delay-repay forms being handed to us as we got out of the station.  It is a stark contrast to the times when much smaller incidents seem to have given the railway a nervous breakdown.

Anyway here are the stories from the BBC and the Evening Star.

Any way here are a couple of photos that have appeared on the BBC and in the Evening Star, if anyones got other pictures, particularly in Bridge, let me know on james@bridgeward.org.uk