In a TV interview Dr Dan, known by his constituents as the Invisible Dan has told Lady Haw Haw that he could no longer look his NHS colleagues and patients in the eye and stay on as a Conservative. So he has joined the party that wrecked the NHS under Blair by introducing a management structure that lets paitients down whil the NHS managers get paid extortionate amounts of money.
We have been in touch with a number of his constituents. One said,
He told Laura Kuenssberg that he had trouble looking his constituents in eye. Given how infrequently we’ve seen him over the last fourteen years, that’ not surprising
Dr Poulter said he would sit as a Labour MP until the general election and then stand down. Another constituent also expressed the reason why he is stepping down. Basically he has no chance of winning Suffolk Coastal because it will always vote blue.
As far as the Invisible Dan’s constituents are concerned, his defection changes nothing. For, he is known as the Invisible Dan for a reason
So he has decided to fire a parting shot and for many in Mid Suffolk, this is the first they’ve heard from him since the last general election at least.
I leave the last word to North Ipswich Conservatives
The Ofcom battle against GB news to have it shut down due to its impartiality. Those on the left are upset that it has politicians presenting on it even though labour politicians are presenting on LBC. But then with the left there is a law for them and a law for everybody else.
They are saying Nigel farage shouldn’t be presenting during the next general election. When Nigel Farage does not hold any public office.
Ofcom has said they are not shutting it down which has caused a reaction from Bolshevik Broadcasting Commune’s Labour Lacky, Nick Robinson. Who talks about Nigel Farage being one of the founders of Reform UK and talked about Lee Anderson being on there and Jacob Rees-Mogg presenting on there. Yet Toenails believes it to be fine that the Labour Party has an entire poll tax funded media department pumping out lies constantly on the Labour Party’s behalf.
Ofcom have made a statement saying that we are a free country unlike China or the Soviet Union. Comparing the UK with China and the Soviet Union is a subtle way of continuing to take away our flights and freedoms.
We have been informed that Suffolk for Europe Suffolk Coastal Lib Dems aren’t very confident, they insinuate that Therese Coffey is vulnerable but it appears that after Therese saved the branch of Barclays Bank in Leiston, the wind has gone out of their sails.
In the window of Jules EUwart’s office in Sax, they’ve got a sign that says “Coffey to go?” followed by an advert asking for donations, claiming they could get rid of Therese for a price of a coffee. Here’s the begging ad.
So they have resorted to a cheesy fund raising tactic. They probably consider this original as if Tea Coffee hasn’t been thought of before. But I bet they loved coming up with it over wine and olives.
Also in coastal, in Woodbridge the Lib Dems and their anybody but Tories together for Woodbridge fellow drips have put the Woodbridge Art Club premises up for sale. They threw out the Art Club less than a month ago and have now put it on the market. So in Woodbridge, the Lib Dems who like to be seen as arty farty types are out to destroy a local art club.
Meanwhile in South Suffolk the yellow peril are annoyed at Suffolk county Council’s support of businesses in Sudbury. They are very upset at the decision to rescind an experimental order to close parking spaces on Sudbury’s Market Hill over the summer months. The recinding of this would increase footfall for local businesses but the Lib Dems with their green and independent friends have got to many fairies in their brains to think of such basic things as supporting local businesses.
Meanwhile in Ipswich the Saint Margarets Ward Residents Association Ipswich Lib Dems have selected James Sandbach to lose £500 when the general election occurs. No doubt we will see lots of him in and around Christchurch Park.
Sachin Karale stood for the Conservatives last year where in his leaflet he said the Labour administration of Ipswich had run out of ideas. This is from his Conservative leaflet here
Labour council who seem to have run out of fresh ideas. Isn’t it time residents gave someone else a go at getting them sorted?
In response to them running out of ideas, Sachin has joined the Labour Party. Has he joined them to give some fresh ideas?
So he stood last time saying he was a successful local businessman and had built close connections with businesses and residents in Alexandra. Now he’s Labour, he has no problem with business rates crippling local businesses in the Town Centre creating lots of empty shops?
He said “I know the issues that local people want tackled; traffic, frequent floods, drugs and crime around the town centre. These have continued for years under the Labour council who seem to have run out of fresh ideas ” now he wants to stand for those who have run out of ideas.
Has he decided to join them to tell them of fresh ideas? Well by what Ipswich Labour and Ipswich Labour’s leaflets say, his voice isn’t been heard amongst his comrades.
He was rather clandestine about his defection, in fact we had no idea. But he has announced his defection now.
So he announces it with a photo of him with Rachel Reeves, Letting it be known he believes himself to be a political big hitter. That doesn’t make him special, Here’s a picture of me with Labour MEP Richard Howitt I bleed blue.
So Sachin Karale has gone over to the dark side. Why? Well maybe he is so desperate to win he has sided with a party that historically has created losers. Maybe he wants his successful business nationalised so he can live off government payouts. Or maybe he is so desperate to win he wants to have the power to put his hand up at the right time during meetings to implement Ipswich Labour’s crap policies to the detriment of the town.
A Conservative councilor is needed in Alexandra to speak of different ideas. Sachin believed in fresh ideas now he doesn’t and is quite happy to be in a party that is ruining the town for what?
As Sadiq Khan launches his re-election bid, the facts show he has cost London dearly.
Sadiq Khan has been accused of ‘two terms of failure’ as he launched his re-election campaign with Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer.
Starmer used the event to praise the Mayor’s tenure at City Hall as the “difference Labour makes in power” – a dire track-record of increased council tax, skyrocketing crime rates and drivers hammered by his daily £12.50 ULEZ expansion tax (with work on a Pay Per Mile charge underway).
HOUSING
The Mayor placed housing at the centre of his re-election bid, making a commitment to build 40,000 ‘new’ council homes by 2030 the ‘first major pledge of this election’.
Sadiq Khan’s announcement was quickly revealed as bogus, however, as he has already committed to building 33,000 of the 40,000 ‘new’ homes between 2018 and 2030 as Mayor.
The remaining 7000 council homes are expected to be delivered within the Mayor’s existing affordable housing programs, meaning Sadiq Khan is in reality committing to zero additional ‘new’ council homes.
Having suggested London is building ‘more affordable council housing than any time since the 1970s’, the Mayor leaves behind a dire track record on housing. In reality, Sadiq Khan has built just 2.8% of the 23,900 homes he had promised to build by March 2026, meaning this target is highly unlikely to be delivered.
Since becoming Mayor in 2016, the Mayor has built just 65,000 affordable homes, an average of 8,400 per year. This is a significant drop compared to Boris Johnson’s time as Mayor, despite being given £9 BILLION of funding from the Government. By contrast, 94,000 affordable homes were completed under Boris Johnson, an average of 11,750 per year.
The Mayor’s failure to build new homes even prompted an independent investigation into the planning system, which found that Sadiq Khan ‘now works to frustrate rather than facilitate the delivery of new homes.’
There are currently almost 90,000 empty homes in the capital – an increase of 54% since 2016, whilst London has seen a 24% increase in rough sleepers since 2016.
COUNCIL TAX
Under Sadiq Khan, the Mayor’s Council Tax precept – paid on top of existing Council Tax bills – has skyrocketed from £276 in 2016/17 to £471 in 2023/24 for the average Band D household, an eye-watering 70% increase. And the money isn’t spent wisely either – for example, £1 MILLION was spent by Sadiq Khan on beach parties.
CRIME
The Mayor has also overseen a disastrous spell managing London’s Metropolitan Police Service, with crime in the capital skyrocketing since 2016 and the force remaining in special measures.
Under Sadiq Khan’s watch, knife crime is up 49%, sexual offences are up 50% and robberies are up 45%, whilst 36 police stations have been closed. Crime on public transport, meanwhile, has increased by a huge 58%.
Despite these hugely increased rates of crime, Sadiq Khan managed to lose London 2000 new police officers after failing to meet recruitment targets set by the Home Office – the only police force in the country to do so.
As a result, £31 million of Government funding was lost, making London less safe from Sadiq Khan’s ever-increasing crime rates.
THE ENVIRONMENT
Having promised to be the ‘greenest Mayor ever’, Sadiq Khan has failed to meet many of his environmental targets and is many decades behind on making London ‘net carbon zero’ by 2030.
A promise to plant 2 million trees in 2015 has resulted in just 500,000 being planted as of December 2023, whilst the Mayor is also behind on his targets for electric vehicle charging points, green spaces and recycling rates.
TRANSPORT
Sadiq Khan’s mismanagement of Transport for London’s (TfL) finances, meanwhile, severely damaged London’s transport system before the pandemic, making the post-Covid picture for London’s transport system even bleaker.
Major milestones like the completion of the Elizabeth Line, the opening of Battersea Power Station Tube stop and the introduction of new, upgraded tube trains were all started and funded before Sadiq Khan became Mayor.
A record number of strikes – 139 in the last 8 years – led to the Mayor raiding his budget to find £30 million of funding for an inflation-busting pay rise for his union friends.
NIGHTLIFE
Finally, the Mayor has overseen a disastrous decline in London’s nightlife, with his £117,000 a year ‘Night Czar’ Amy Lame recently condemned on social media by users using the hashtag #LameLondon.
Under Sadiq Khan’s watch, the Night Time Industries Association says that more than 1000 venues in London have closed in the last three years.
CONSERVATIVE REACTION
Susan Hall AM, Conservative Candidate for Mayor of London, said: ‘From skyrocketing crime, to failing on affordable housing, to hammering vulnerable drivers with his unfair ULEZ expansion, the final Mayor’s Question Time marks two terms of Sadiq Khan failing to deliver and failing to listen.
“I’m listening to Londoners and I’ll scrap the ULEZ Expansion on day one, get a grip on crime with more bobbies on the beat, appoint a Women’s Commissioner and make London a genuinely cleaner and greener city’.
Neil Garratt AM, Leader of the City Hall Conservatives, said: ‘It is a genuine shame for Londoners that Sadiq Khan has been consistently unable to make good on his promises during his time as Mayor.
I would urge anyone who wants to see change in London to vote for Susan Hall on 2nd May. Susan has committed to stopping the Mayor’s unfair ULEZ Expansion on day one of her mayoralty, stopping all work on Pay Per Mile road charging immediately, introducing a Women’s Commissioner and getting a grip on crime – something Sadiq Khan has been unable to do.’”
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