The Bell Inn had the most Labour posters (3) of any building in Bridge Ward at the County Council elections. That’s a sad fact that I suspect a lot of people don’t know. A sadder fact is that we had as many Tory posters up. Two of the ward’s Labour councillors have larger houses than I do, and I’m sure they’ve put up loads of posters but as they don’t live in the ward they can’t enter this rather nerdy competition.
I wondered why this soon to be derelict pub would do that. I still don’t know.
However this ia a more interesting fact. The Bell Inn will be gutted and is applying to become a Sports Bar.
Bridge has Labour councillor Phil Smart on the planning committee. It will be interesting to see if he feels that he can vote on whether one of Labour’s biggest backers in Bridge should be able to gut the oldest pub in Ipswich to provide some godawful copy of the Drum & Monkey.
