It’s rather embarassing for the Ipswich Labour Party that they get more from their MP’s office allowance than they do from their members, but both these sums come to less than 10% each of their income.
The vast bulk of their income comes from a more surprising source, and that’s gambling. And not any old gambling, [...]
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9 Mar 10
Ipswich Labour’s funding, no wonder they want to gamble on our future
5 Mar 10
Mama Rudkin
No, I didn’t make it up. Irony is really failing me (if it hadn’t already).
From Dame Bryony Rudkin’s very own account of her trip to sunny South Africa:
On our last day in Soweto, on being told by my colleagues that I was an elected councillor, a street trader at once referred to me as “mama” [...]
4 Mar 10
Are BBC job cuts a good thing?
To state the bleeding obvious, the BBC is not a direct rival to me. It also should not be a direct rival to the East Anglian Daily Press or the Ipswich Evening Star, but the growth of its licence funded Suffolk presence has made it a great rival. We may have many problems with these [...]
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 [...]
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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20 Feb 10
Was that a dig at our councillor, comrade Ross?
As any regular reader of this blog knows we love and cherish Bridge Ward Labour councillors here, particularly those of them who are not good enough to represent where they actually live. With their nice web design contracts and their £400 a day consultancy gigs they need all the help they can get and on this [...]
12 Dec 09
Pre Budget Review – We’ve not seen the worst yet
I’ve spent more years than I care to remember working in tax, often having to get the implications of the budget quickly either to the media or to the internet. One thing that I’ve learnt is that it is only two or three days later that you work out where the worst damage is. So [...]
14 Nov 09
We still need a referendum
Just as I was losing hope that any of the big three parties had any honest men left in them. Douglas Carswell, the Harwich MP who’s constituency is a near neighbour has called for a referendum:
I want you to know that I have begun a campaign for a referendum on the EU. All three parties promised us [...]
8 Nov 09
Lib Dem meets alien – Who’s more normal?
The Lib Dems are a strang bunch, but this is probably odder than normal. A Lib Dem councillor in Hampshire has seen aliens, in the local shopping centre (thanks to Paul Staines for that little gem. Believing in aliens in your back garden is fairly odd, you’d think.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall you’d [...]
23 Oct 09
How to deal with the BNP – and it ain’t by ignoring them
I can’t believe the amount of discussion that Nick Griffin coming on the BBC has generated. What has been disapointing is that he’s come across as a victim. I can’t see how the people who want to ban him from the airways can’t don’t recognise that.
Jack Straw came across as a robust but essentially complacent [...]
