St.MARGARET'S VOTERS. MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND VOTE AGAINST CORRUPTION.

People have for the most part lost interest in elections especially local elections where only about 30% even bother to vote on local issues but only vote according to their political leanings. We all have the choice to vote on any issue we chose but in St.Margaret’s we have a chance to make a difference to the way this town is run by rebelling against political parties and the management of Ipswich by IBC and SCC.


There is a main issue in the ward and that could decide who runs this town. We have a major problem with the northern fringe as developing it into masses of houses affects the whole town. Not only will it spoil the little countryside we have left but it will also generate masses of traffic and extra demand for water, which is a scarce resource. We do need the countryside that can be used to grow food to do just that. Development will cause mayhem for residents living in Christchurch Street and Bolton Lane etc; where already the congestion is causing diabolical levels of exhaust pollution. We have one of the most densely occupied wards in the town and more houses will destroy the quality of life in every part of the ward and yet that is what is planned and indeed it will happen if voters do not reject this by a massive rebellion against the present system. An abstention will also be taken as contentment with the status quo so vote for a difference, an Independent candidate who only serves you, the electorate and not a political party nor busy with a career and raising a family. Don't let your lack of will to vote be used against you by the professional politicians. It only counts if you use it to stop the nonsense taking place in our town. Vote as a protest against politicians.

There is a fortune to be made developing the northern fringe and quite clearly local electors are against this but it will happen if it is not fought. I do not take instruction from any political party nor from IBC, indeed I have taken IBC to the Magistrates Court before now and had them fined £750 and ordered to pay me £1,000 in compensation which I gave back to IBC. I have plans for SCC along similar lines and I fully expect to have IBC in the Magistrates Court again. I am truly independent and in St.Margaret’s I detect injustice through my research here and my experience of Ipswich where I have lived for the last 70 years. My speciality is being able to research decisions and actions and finding the flaws that can be used to reverse those decisions. I have done this on the dock and that has a long way to go legally as yet.

So much money is involved in developing the northern fringe all the major political parties and IBC are working together to achieve it regardless of the local residents. A strong candidate has been parachuted into the ward who is regarded as being strong enough to carry out the neutering of the electorate.

Andrew Cann has one task in St.Margaret’s and that is to oversee the development of the northern fringe regardless of the cost in congestion and pollution lower down the ward and throughout the town. Andrew Cann has been parachuted in to do the job Richard Atkins was supposed to do.

I have been involve with Ipswich issues for many years now. I watched Jim Savage as CEO of this town and he was totally ineffective when Jamie Cann stole from our town. Jim Savage was informed by me and given the figures to show Jamie Cann had his fingers in the till and yet nothing happened other than £100K being repaid by IBC to a supplier. The nonsense about the Crown Pools and the corruption involved went unchallenged except by an accountant who realised the figures didn't add up and started digging himself and found a trail that lead to a one time BBC comentator amongst others. He took everything to the local paper and there it stayed. Not a single word was published. We had spent hours sitting with auditors and sifting through figures only to be foiled by the local newspaper which had taken such an interest apparently.
Jamie went to Parliament and James Hehir ran this town after that while poor Jamie drunk himself to death. It seems he spent more time in the House of Commons bar than in the debating chamber. Eventually he became an embarrassment and the local party wanted to be shot of him but he knew where the bodies were burried and survived major incidents of public drunkeness. He was breathalised one morning after a heavy night and eventually they had him as he could now drink without worrying about being stopped as he had the services of a driver. The scandal of all this is everybody involved realised he was drinking himself to death and nobody stopped him which would have been quite easy if anyone had cared but no, he was wanted dead and out of the way and sure enough he did drink himself to death quite literally. That was shameful.
However it gave Jamie Hehir free reign to destroy our town with his stupid ideas of massive bulding sites everywhere and complete congestion which we suffer with to this day and it is getting worse too as stuff he started cannot be stopped. We have massive construction sites along the dock standing derelict and the mad plan to build on the Ipswich flood plain continues. Grand schemes are in hand to hold the river back and we as tax payers are paying for them via the Environment Agency erecting a barrier across the river so Associated British Ports can build a gated community on the dock island site for millionairs complete with berth for their luxury boats. Ipswich people who have used the river for centuries can no longer afford too. A few have even been forced out of business but ABP and it's lead shareholder Goldman Sachs are thriving.
James Hehir along with his supporter Nigel Pickover never even lived in our town even though they ccontrolled it. Pickover has to support massive development in that area as his company wants to demolish their place in Lower Brook Street and redevelop it as another massive multi-story building which IBC will allow as again the local press knows where the bodies are burried and no councillor who wants to remain in politics in Ipswich is going to vote against the planning proposal from the news paper. That is just a minor part of how ccorruption is ruining our town behind our backs and unless we all fight back our town will become and absolute ghetto where no cyclist or pedestrians will venture even during the day time. The major retailers have all recognised this and that is why so few want to be here. It is elementary common sense.

Now we have Russell Williams as CEO of our town and he at least lives in our town but the challenge for him is to serve the town that pays his salary. I like Russell but as returning officer for this election I think it is unwise for him to be drinking in the Dove Public House with Andrew Cann.

 If you want to protest this process then turn out and vote for me or the Green Party and demonstrate your disdain with a massive turn out against the status quo before this town continues on the same track designed for it by the late James Hehir who I regard from my contacts with him as being the most polite and civil leader any mafia gang has ever had. I believe his time in Ipswich was a time of massive corruption we are all paying for now. Look at our docks and the dereliction there spawned by him in favour of the world’s biggest bank, Goldman Sachs. Bankers also manage blind trusts senior decision makers are supposed to have! Yes that is corruption and yes I say we have corruption in Ipswich and that has to be dealt with as a priority so give me the job.
Peter Turtill