It’s not only the £500 a month Chris Mole gives to the Ipswich Labour Partythat rankles it’s the small little indignities.
Looking at one example of the thousands we pay to the Ipswich Labour Party:
…we see another line (you may have to go to page 115 manually, depending on your browser) :
Insurance: 1/3 of CIS bill – fire, theft etc £128.33
(CIS is now Co-Operative Insurance , tied to the Labour allies, the Co-Operative party)
Now the strange thing about this is that his office in Silent Street does not just contain the presumably larger offices of the Ipswich Labour Party (they quite reasonably don’t release their floor plans) but it also contains the premises of the Ipswich Labour club.
Are we the taxpayers really paying a third of the insurance costs of a premises that contains a private club selling alcohol? Not only does this take a massive part of the Labour complex in Silent Street but it also is a far riskier proposition than a first floor office that is rarely open at night. As the invoice merely says it’s a third share, and does not contain anything from the insurance company, it’s not clear. If it is covering the Labour club then this is a clear example of cross subsidy.
Of course this expense would not exist at all if Chris Mole were to run his council office from Ipswich Borough Council.
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