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May 3 2012, 3.05PM Ipswich Spy labour, Conservatives, Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, Cock Ups, Rushmere, Ipswich Borough Council, Judy Terry, Election News, Ben Gummer MP

Tories hit out at Ross mistakes on ICR

Tory campaigners have objected to three glaring errors by Alasdair Ross in his interview with Chris Chambers on ICR 105.7, calling on him to apolog...
March 22 2012, 12.56PM Suffolk Wordblog Government, Ipswich, Alasdair Ross, Ipswich Spy, Blogs, Ben Gummer, Judy Terry

Ipwswich politics: Calm down, dear(s)

Why are ipswich politics so much like a tussle outside a bar at chucking-out time? They seem to scream at each other rather than engage in reasoned...
October 24 2011, 7.00AM Ipswich Spy labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, St Margarets, Ipswich Borough Council, street lighting, Suffolk County Council, John Cook

Street lighting row rumbles on

Street lighting. The Tories say Labour is switching off the lights at midnight. Labour say the Tories are switching off the lights at midnight. We&...
October 13 2011, 7.00AM Ipswich Spy labour, Conservatives, Uncategorized, Alasdair Ross, Ben Gummer, Ed Balls, Liz Harsant, John Cook, Sandy Martin, itfc

What is it with Labour and Ipswich Town?

With Labour run Ipswich Borough Council under fire from Ipswich Town fans for demanding more than half a million pounds back rent, you would think ...
October 12 2011, 7.00AM Ipswich Spy labour, Conservatives, Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, HEALTH, NHS, Policy, Ipswich Hospital, liberal democrat, David Ellesmere

Politicians aren’t qualified to run the NHS

Last night a tweet from Cllr Ross brought our attention to this article by local Tory blogger Gavin Maclure which has raised an interesting issue r...
October 10 2011, 7.00AM Ipswich Spy labour, Liberal Democrats, Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, Cock Ups, Alexandra, Bixley, Ipswich Borough Council, Suffolk County Council, Harvey Crane

Labour attack a plan they support

                Labour Councillor Harvey Crane has taken to the Ipswich Labour website to attack the idea o...
September 22 2011, 12.09AM Ipswich Spy General, Ipswich, Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, Cock Ups, Ben Gummer, Policy, Kate Green, Legal aid, Bryony Rudkin

Labour’s petty campaign against Gummer

Ipswich Spy has noticed rumblings across the blogosphere in the last few days, with complaints about so called “rowdy” behaviour during...
August 27 2011, 9.00PM Ipswich Spy unions, Ipswich, Alasdair Ross, Policy, Ipswich Borough Council, David Ellesmere, unison, Public sector cuts, Junkets and Expenses, Tracey Grant

Should a council fund a union office?

Ipswich Tory Ben Gummer MP has hit out at news that Ipswich Borough Council subsidises a union office to the tune of £20,000 in an article in the ...
June 27 2011, 7.00AM Ipswich Spy labour, General, Conservatives, Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, Policy, Ipswich Borough Council, Public sector cuts, street lighting, Suffolk County Council

Row over street lighting produces heat but no light

Alasdair Ross keeps insisting that a Tory plan to switch off streetlights is responsible for the forthcoming darkening of our side streets, whilst ...
June 25 2011, 7.00AM Ipswich Spy labour, General, Conservatives, Alasdair Ross, Civic Centre, Tesco, Planning, liberal democrat, Ipswich Borough Council, Bill Quinton

Politics MUST be involved in planning and development

Planning and Development Control committees on local authorities are supposed to be apolitical places. Decisions should not be made in back room de...
May 9 2011, 6.10PM Ipswich Spy labour, General, Conservatives, Alasdair Ross, chris mole, Rushmere, Ed Balls, Ipswich Borough Council, David Ellesmere, Andrea Hill

Balls: Ipswich voters vote for Labour shows coalition on the wrong track.

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, visiting Ipswich today to celebrate the Labour victory, claimed that the voters were turning to Labour in protest again...
April 7 2011, 4.24AM Ipswich Spy Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, referendum, alternative vote, Voting reform, Fairer Votes, FPTP, No2AV

Voting Referendum should be fought on the merits, not in the gutter.

Ipswich Spy has been watching with interest as the two sides in the voting reform referendum make competing claims about the benefits and drawbacks...
February 22 2011, 2.52PM Ipswich Spy labour, Conservatives, Green Party, Liberal Democrats, Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, On line presence, Kevan Lim, Liz Harsant, Jane Storey

Councillor 2.0 – how Ipswich politicians are failing to communicate

One of the Ipswich Spies has recently been visiting family elsewhere in the country and, being a very sad individual with a anorak like dependence ...
February 11 2011, 6.59AM Ipswich Spy labour, Conservatives, Ipswich, Liberal Democrats, North Ipswich, Campaign Activity, Alasdair Ross, bridge, On line presence, St Margarets

Labour echo campaigners call to save libraries

Labour have recently put an article on their website which echoes the blogpost from Alasdair Ross which was published on 5th February. This is rath...
January 31 2011, 1.02AM Ipswich Spy labour, General, Ipswich, Alasdair Ross, Ed Miliband, Ipswich Borough Council, David Ellesmere, George Osbourne, Public sector cuts, Coalition Government

Do Labour still not get it on cuts?

Ipswich Borough Council and Suffolk County Council are going to have to make huge cuts in the forthcoming year, indeed many of these cuts are alrea...
June 2 2010, 12.20PM Bridge Ward News Alasdair Ross, Politics (general), Ipswich Labour Party, councillor phil smart

Why I’m a local candidate

I received this today from Councillor Alasdair Ross, the Games Master at Ipswich School: James This local candidate issue does not stand up to scru...
May 11 2010, 11.42PM Bridge Ward News Alasdair Ross, Ipswich Labour Party, Ipswich Borough Council, David Ellesmere

Chris Mole’s concession speech showed that he was in trouble with his own party

Some miscellaneous notes before politics stops being as interesting. I’m going to squeeze in as much as possible, as I don’t think I...
May 2 2010, 5.18PM Bridge Ward News General Election, Alasdair Ross, immigration, Andrew Cann

Mrs Duffy and Ipswich

Andrew Cann has another reminiscence of the Labour mask slipping: One comment I would have made, if technically able, on the post you make about Mr...
April 29 2010, 10.26AM Bridge Ward News General Election, Alasdair Ross, Ipswich Labour Party

Insane, totally insane

On the twitter feeds: Alasdair Ross thinks that Mrs Duffy should be grateful (even as a joke that’s poor taste) Soo Thomas thinks that she sh...
April 21 2010, 6.25PM Bridge Ward News General Election, Alasdair Ross, Councillor John Cook

John Cook is not an Ipswich Fan, he’s an Ipswich Fanclub Fan

So I get two emails in fairly quick succession on the blog about Comrade John Cook. I got a rather nice email from a person called Clive: Hi James ...
April 20 2010, 11.51PM Bridge Ward News Ipswich blogs, Alasdair Ross, Andrew Coates, Ipswich Spy

Battle of the Blogs

The Battle of the Anoraks, sorry Ipswich political blogs OK, this is a quick and (very) dirty break down of the influence of blogs. But there are t...

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