The Council runs a bus service. They want to sell it off. There is a big local campaign led by the local (and under threat) Labour MP. The government minister in charge says that while sympathetic, there’s nothing he wants to do, saying that it’s up to councils.
But it’s not Ipswich, it’s Plymouth. And the minister who has the power to shut the whole thing down? Chris Mole.
He could do the whole thing in Ipswich, his own patch. He won’t. Why?
Well if you look at the speech it gives a clue, lot’s of talk about how much he likes council owned bus services and no real action to keep them council owned.
He may not exercise his power to keep the buses council owned, but at least it will get the petitions signed and the vote out. And in the end that’s all that counts in Labour’s once proud Fortress Ipswich.
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