I’m going to spend most of this post annoying my Labour supporting readers, so I might as well start by annoying the Tories. The worst election for the Tories was not 1997, but 1992. They needed a time in opposition and the win in 1992 convinced them that they were invincible. The lost their humility, [...]
Bridge Ward News
News from Bridge Ward, Ipswich including the Hayes, Old Stoke, Prince of Wales Drive, Maidenhall Estate and Wherstead Road
Browsing the archives for the councillor phil smart tag
4 Feb 10
Wherstead Road needs a decent crossing
I was at the Wherstead Road Residents Association reporting the committee on what I’ve been doing on the buses and the noise yesterday and having almost got run over crossing the road it seems clear that the road needs a crossing.
This is something that the committee are clear on, in fact the Association has been [...]
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 [...]
5 Nov 09
Bell Inn to be gutted
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 [...]
Filed in Vernon Street
6 Oct 09
Noise meeting
Just finished the noise meeting which was quite productive. There were about 150 people there.
Some of the highlights:
No one from Southern Cement wanted to speak or identify themselves, which was expected. No one from the Port of Ipswich did either, which was disappointing.
There are plenty of people outside the Noise Action Group who are very angry. [...]
16 Sep 09
Chris Mole’s magic circle
I asked some time ago when talking about Chris Mole’s website, “who is this Double SS design” that created his taxpayer funded site.
I got an email recently saying that it was actually Double S Design, run by Soo Smart, the wife of very long serving Bridge councillor Phil Smart.
How cosy.
21 Aug 09
A Phil Smart attitude towards cars
Our councillor Phil Smart appears in the Evening Star saying that “The solution to traffic congestion is through better traffic management and the reduction of demand through better public transport.”
This is all very worthy. However when I was at the Maidenhall Residents Association there were only two people who did not walk to this very [...]
6 Aug 09
Our Councillor on TV
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 [...]
5 Aug 09
Chris Mole’s website – Labour benefits, you pay
The website of Chris Mole was paid (at double the going rate) for by you and me, as taxpayers.
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/chris-mole/Chris_Mole_0506_IEP.pdf
If you’re a Labour loyalist then this is a good deal, if you’re not then you’ve been robbed.
When one of the most prominent links on their website is to a scaremongering Labour website you can almost hear [...]
23 Jul 09
Chris Mole’s Website costs, guess who pays
Chris Mole has a website, which is all very nice, and it’s a very good party political website. However, and you’ve probably guessed it, who pays for it. Well, I’ve got an expenses claim:
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/chris-mole/Chris_Mole_0506_IEP.pdf
That’s £2408.75 for a website. That is as much as it looks. For example, Public Impact, the rule breaking Labour campaigning group, [...]
