Want Lower Council Tax? Vote Conservative  

There are two important votes next Thursday.  AV – which I’ve bored you about already – and for the Borough Council, which is far more in the balance. It is very close in Ipswich: the Liberal Democrat-Conservative Coalition has a small majority and Labour is snapping at their heals.  Why should you vote to keep them in? Because they’re good.  Since 2004 when the Tories and Lib Dems took over from Labour, they have refurbished and invested in almost every one of the town’s main cultural assets.  Christchuch Park, the Museum, the Regent, Fore Street Baths, Crown Swimming Pools, Holywells Park, Dumbarton Road Rec, St Nicholas’s Church – they have all received much needed funds.  And there are more. The Liberal-Conservative Coalition has done this whilst reducing the crippling debt left by the Labour administration (haven’t...