March 29th, 2010 — Politics (general)
I’ve sent this to Dame Bryony:
Dear Councillor Rudkin,
After your glorious journey to South Africa you told Ipswich Spy that the local press would be showing photographs from your trip. I have not seen them. While I may have missed these (and as you can imagine I was looking for them) I’ve not been able to find them in the local press.
I think that the people of Bridge Ward would greatly enjoy seeing them, with appropriate – and gushing – commentary. I would be glad to put these on my humble website.
Kind Regards,
James Spencer
Edit: I have been honoured with a response from Mama Rudkin:
Dear James,
I forwarded an account of my trip along with photos to the Evening Star as promised a few weeks ago – you have prompted me to give them a call to see when they will be publishing it.
Yours
Bryony
February 22nd, 2010 — Politics (general)
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. She can give us something to aspire to, if only we had the Labour Party contacts we too could have £400 a day consultancies and live on Corder Road. We should be happy that she has chosen to grace Bridge with her presence. Chanty’s loss is surely our gain. However it hurts, it really does, that we did not get on a post card from her latest all expense paid holiday, sorry fact finding trip, to South Africa during their summer. She was funded by the International Aid budget, which was a truly creative way of using this budget as some bureaucrat obviously worked out that the presence of Dame Bryony is a greater boon to the poor of South Africa than something dull like HIV vaccines or school text books. Did you hate geometry classes and booster shots? Me too. So we have to once again leap to her defence when those blackguards at Ipswich Spy make sarcastic comments about our Bryony. Hands off our Bryony. She brings light, joy and local government best practices to all who meet her.
June 21st, 2009 — Chris Mole Expenses investigation
if you are interested then here are the published expenses for Chris Mole (here are the ones on his site). I’m going through the expenses now and although Chris Mole has been claiming that he is “underspending” there are some very interesting claims in there.
I will be going through these over the next few days. The Evening Star and the East Anglian Daily Times have done some work and focussed on the cost of his home and some of the expensive tastes (such as £70 headphones and £1000 TVs), but there seem to be a couple of very interesting stories hidden in this which don’t seem to have been touched. More to follow…
