It’s rather embarassing for the Ipswich Labour Party that they get more from their MP’s office allowance than they do from their members, but both these sums come to less than 10% each of their income.
The vast bulk of their income comes from a more surprising source, and that’s gambling. And not any old gambling, [...]
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 Ipswich Labour Party tag
9 Mar 10
Ipswich Labour’s funding, no wonder they want to gamble on our future
6 Mar 10
The taxpayer pays more to Ipswich Labour Party than their members do
All this Ashcroft got me wondering about the Ipswich Labour Party’s finances.
The 2008 details are here (in PDF format). The bulk of the Labour Party fundraising is through a profitable door to door gambling operation that reaches out into other parts of Suffolk and Norfolk. It’s lumped together as “fundraising”.
Anyway the rent that we the taxpayer paid [...]
21 Feb 10
Is this how Labour will privatise Ipswich Buses?
There’s an enigma in Labour’s stance on Ipswich Buses. The Labour Party knows that if the buses remain in municipal hands without any help, then as the second smallest bus operator in the country they will be susceptible to a strike from First Group. First Group could, as it has done to other small operators, [...]
20 Feb 10
Was that a dig at our councillor, comrade Ross?
As any regular reader of this blog knows we love and cherish Bridge Ward Labour councillors here, particularly those of them who are not good enough to represent where they actually live. With their nice web design contracts and their £400 a day consultancy gigs they need all the help they can get and on this [...]
17 Feb 10
Oh no, hide: Maidenhall Estate’s message to Brown
It really should go without saying that a three year old should have more sense than a Labour MP.
The Evening Star have a very funny story about a young boy trying to give the sagest advice that Chris Mole will ever get about what his election campaign should do with Gordon Brown. ”Oh no. Hide“. [...]
16 Feb 10
Vote Mole, get in the Brown stuff
Seventeen and a half minutes into this interview on BBC Suffolk Gordon Brown commends Chris Mole
Councillor Alasdair Ross (this time on the record) says he is “thrilled this man is our Prime Minister”.
There are quite a few Tories who are thrilled that Gordon Brown is your leader as well.
15 Feb 10
Labour’s new front
Labour may not be able to run an economy, but they seem to be doing a good job of running an internet campaign. They have set up a site to coincide with Gordon Brown’s visit, called Ipswich Spy, it also has a Twitter site.
The idea is to act as Ipswich’s version of the anti-politics net, [...]
5 Feb 10
Bob Blastock, we need more like him
Bob Blastock is one of the people that you see everywhere. I first met him about five years ago when I went to a meeting of the Over Stoke history group. I wasn’t really that active in local politics at the time, confining myself to delivering a few leaflets and so I didn’t get to [...]
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 [...]
27 Jan 10
Is Ipswich set for a hard left takeover?
Sorry for the Daily Mail type headline, but this little comment invited it:
http://www.davidosler.com/2010/01/hewitt_hoon_and_hubris.html#comment-40564
Ipswich’s very own Andrew Coates manages to fit in quite a few little allegations:
- Ipswich Labour, led by John Cook the Norwich North candidate (the “full-time Secretary-Agent”) is busy building links and working closely with the “hard left”
- The Ipswich Buses campaign is [...]
