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Currently on the Nicky Campbell phone in on 5live. Please, please, please, if you have a vote in Ipswich do whatever you can to vote out this piece of sh*t at the next election.
Minor point, it is 30 p Lee not 20 p. He says it is possible to eat healthy meals for 30 p not 20 p!
"The Conservatives have had an 80-seat majority since 2019 and it is still Labour's fault that those waiting processing for immigration have quadrupled in number!"
The commentator is spot on that they have no interest in lowering the numbers. They want the immigrants so that those desperately opposed to them can see it as an issue while they then claim to be the only party that will deal with them! How absurd that electors cannot see straight through them.
It was the people of Ipswich - my neighbours - who voted for him.
[Post edited 8 Aug 2023 21:15]
I tend to think of Ipswich as being a Labour seat, with occasional swings the other way.
Since 1938, Labour have held the seat for 65 years in contrast the Tories who have held it for 20 years.
Indeed, in 1983 Ipswich along with a seat in Bristol was the only place with a Labour MP outside London south of a line from the Bristol Channel to the Wash, which gave me a great sense of pride.
It was therefore a great disappointment to me that Ipswich elected Hunt in 2019, and voted to leave in 2016, because that was not the Ipswich I grew up in.
Genuinely shames our town. Compare to our last tory mp (gummer) who actually worked hard to represent our town, regardless of the party he stood for.
Edit: the most ridiculous thing is that the BBC has more or less been the propaganda arm of government on this issue today and yesterday. Blanket coverage of the issue, heavily weighted with the government position. Its actually p1ssed me off quite a lot. So for Hunt to be whining that the BBC is biased is quite something.
[Post edited 8 Aug 2023 16:52]
Absolutely this.
I can, at a push, handle a local tory MP and Gummer was approachable and if he promised to get back to you, he did and, importantly, actually worked in the best interests of the town.
This tw@t's only interests are himself and his own elevation within the party.
Imagine telling the dockside flat owners that you'll "fight like a lion" on their behalf only to abstain on a vote that would've actually helped them in their predicament.
Get him out, Ipswich.
Please note: prior to hitting the post button, I've double checked for anything that could be construed as "Anti Semitic" and to the best of my knowledge it isn't. Anything deemed to be of a Xenophobic nature is therefore purely accidental or down to your own misconstruing.
I tend to think of Ipswich as being a Labour seat, with occasional swings the other way.
Since 1938, Labour have held the seat for 65 years in contrast the Tories who have held it for 20 years.
Indeed, in 1983 Ipswich along with a seat in Bristol was the only place with a Labour MP outside London south of a line from the Bristol Channel to the Wash, which gave me a great sense of pride.
It was therefore a great disappointment to me that Ipswich elected Hunt in 2019, and voted to leave in 2016, because that was not the Ipswich I grew up in.
[Post edited 9 Aug 2023 7:23]
I did a bit of GOTV on election day for the previous MP - Labour's Sandy Martin - who was a decent man of fairly unremarkable centre left politics, prior to being MP he spent 20 years as a local councillor for the Town doing boring stuff for the community that no-one cares about.
Looked beat half way through the day and said it was the dirtiest campaign he'd seen in his entire life, that there were some astonishing lies about him pinging around facebook and whatsapp, stuff he couldn't believe even after more than two decades in politics. Sad really.
I did a bit of GOTV on election day for the previous MP - Labour's Sandy Martin - who was a decent man of fairly unremarkable centre left politics, prior to being MP he spent 20 years as a local councillor for the Town doing boring stuff for the community that no-one cares about.
Looked beat half way through the day and said it was the dirtiest campaign he'd seen in his entire life, that there were some astonishing lies about him pinging around facebook and whatsapp, stuff he couldn't believe even after more than two decades in politics. Sad really.
[Post edited 9 Aug 2023 14:19]
He did make mention to that in his concession speech and it was just laughed and jeered away by Hunt and his team.
You can see already that he is accusing Jack Abbott of going to 'Open Borders' demonstration on that link shared from GB News and going to Calais to give them advice on how to get here
He is a stain on our name, I could last vote in Ipswich in 2010 and voted for Ben Gummer as he was the best candidate on the ballot and did a good job as a local politician whilst balancing trying to make a mark nationally - obviously his manifesto in 2017 saw the end of his spell as an MP,.
Hunt couldn't give a single toss about the people of Ipswich
I did a bit of GOTV on election day for the previous MP - Labour's Sandy Martin - who was a decent man of fairly unremarkable centre left politics, prior to being MP he spent 20 years as a local councillor for the Town doing boring stuff for the community that no-one cares about.
Looked beat half way through the day and said it was the dirtiest campaign he'd seen in his entire life, that there were some astonishing lies about him pinging around facebook and whatsapp, stuff he couldn't believe even after more than two decades in politics. Sad really.
[Post edited 9 Aug 2023 14:19]
Interesting.
I suppose the thing is that Trump and his tactics get a lot of justified criticism but the Tories are really no better.
And, in my view, the Tories have always played it dirty when it comes to elections. Take the Labour Tax "bombshell" which claimed that every voter would be £1,250 worse off, when in fact 8 out of 10 voters would have been better off.
The Ipswich constituency is not changing at all. Every house that was in Ipswich at the last election will still be in Ipswich at the next election.
In 1983 four wards were stripped from the constituency (which previously coincided with the County Borough boundaries); Broomhill, Castle Hill, White House and Whitton wards were transferred originally to Central Suffolk.
The 2018 boundary review reincorporated Castle Hill into the constituency.
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