Alasdair Ross
alasdairross.bsky.social
Alasdair Ross
@alasdairross.bsky.social
Labour councillor for Rushmere Ward, Ipswich Borough Council, Exec Member for Housing, Veteran, Royal Green Jackets, Rifles, Ipswich
Town fan, groundhopper, lover of stadiums
Great club and ground to visit @peckhamtownfc.bsky.social - and they were unlucky to get nothing out of the game today
April 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Putin invaded Ukraine

I'm old enough to remember when US Presidents were capable of making that known to the world
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New Panini card set Adrenalyn XL PLUS 2025 - do you like or hate the parallel cards? For example, Hutchinson Lightning cards, basic card plus possibly 11 parallel versions!! Here is the basic, Orange and purple parallel
April 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Badenoch was the minister for Council Tax so she can’t talk!

#PMQs
April 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Council tax went up 12 years in a row under the Tory governments.

#PMQs
April 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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March 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Tory MP James Cartlidge: “We must stand up to Macron”

Healey: “Drop that Brexit rhetoric”

Labour is being way too cautious on the reset with the EU but this kind of put down to the relentlessly adolescent EU-phobic rightwing is very welcome.
March 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Always good to be back on an army camp - Wattisham
March 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Good session in Woolston talking to residents. In particular, a formerly Tory voting veteran mentioned how much he appreciated Keir Starmer’s leadership on Ukraine.
March 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Still copies left our our latest issue > Town Collectables - - January/Feb 2025 - Issue 74 - buy now ebay.co.uk/itm/33578469...
Pardon our interruption...eBay Home
ebay.co.uk
March 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The remains of Wolverton Park, former home of Wolverton AFC and one of Milton Keynes City's many incarnations.

All that's left is the outline of the pitch and a crude replica of what was one of football's oldest covered shelters.
March 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Thank you to Ipswich MP @jackabbott.bsky.social for his visit today to see the services that @stelizabethhospice.bsky.social delivers to our local community and to hear directly from our Medical Director to learn more about specialist palliative and end of life care. @hospiceuk.bsky.social
I warmly welcome the Government's £500,000 funding boost for our local hospices.

This will make a real difference, allowing @stelizabethhospice.bsky.social and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices to improve facilities and continue delivering outstanding care in Ipswich and Suffolk.
Suffolk hospices given share of £25m funding pot as MP comes to visit
An MP has paid a visit to a hospice charity ahead of news that two organisatons would receive a share of £25 million in Government funding.
www.suffolknews.co.uk
February 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Labour's new breakfast clubs will be transformational, boosting educational outcomes and life chances for children, and easing the cost of living for parents.

I'm delighted that schools in Ipswich and Suffolk will benefit from the first phase.

My East Anglian Daily Times / Ipswich Star column 👇
OPINION: Breakfast clubs will boost outcomes for children in Ipswich
In his opinion column this week, Jack Abbott discusses the news that 15 schools in Suffolk will be among the first to offer free, daily breakfast…
www.ipswichstar.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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A very special grave to me is that of a Post Office Rifles lad at rest far from home in the soil of Verdun.
March 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Photos of International Brigaders from around the world who fought against fascism in Spain.
March 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Reform, the Putin and Trump party.
See the Ipswich branch of the Reform Party have appointed someone as Chair who even the local Tories threw out after his comments supporting Putin (the Tories did want him back!)
February 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Imagine if it was Johnson - or even worse - Truss - hosting a conference of European leaders, dealing with Putin, Ukraine and Trump? Complete chaos - we should all be very grateful that it is Starmer who is showing true statesmanship
March 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Regardless of views on domestic policy, at a time that the US president is so unpredictable and unreliable Starmer will have to use all his experience as the UK’s top prosecutor to maintain any form of working relationship. I think he’s better placed than the last few PMs but it’ll be hard.
March 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Suffolk FA Centenary banquet Menu - 1985, Bobby Robson guest, Giles cartoon www.ebay.co.uk/itm/33584008...
March 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Five Labour MPs with military backgrounds have accused Reform of "openly parroting the Kremlin’s talking points"

Mike Tapp, Will Stone, Helena Dollimore, Fred Thomas & Paul Foster in @thehousemag.bsky.social say that Farage's party is "out in the cold, isolated and indifferent" to "barbaric" Putin
False-patriot Reform MPs are incapable of standing up for British values
Reform MPs reject British values and spew Kremlin propaganda. The British people will see through their dangerous rhetoric.
www.politicshome.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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A former councillor who was suspended over accusations of pro-Russian social media posts is now Ipswich's Reform UK chair.
www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2496141...
Ex-Tory councillor is now Ipswich's Reform UK chair
A former Conservative Ipswich borough councillor who was suspended for social media posts is now Reform UK's chair for Ipswich.
www.ipswichstar.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
See the Ipswich branch of the Reform Party have appointed someone as Chair who even the local Tories threw out after his comments supporting Putin (the Tories did want him back!)
February 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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🦷 15,500 desperately needed dental appointments for our area, delivering on the promise we made.

Combined with the important work being undertaken at the University of Suffolk Dental CIC, I hope we will soon be able to put an end to our county’s dental desert.
‘End the dental desert’: Plans for 15,000 emergency dental appointments welcomed by MP
Plans for more than 15,000 dental appointments have been welcomed by an MP.
www.suffolknews.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Meet Laurence Bradley , your Labour candidate for the Rushmere St Andrew bye election tomorrow .
He is a local man, in touch with the community and ready to work hard for you .
Polling starts tomorrow at 7 am.
February 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Sad to hear that Henry Kelly- 'Going for Gold' presenter has passed away- many lunchtimes at MPH in Belfast, watching the quiz, cuppa in hand and slippers on! Hard life! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
TV presenter and journalist Henry Kelly dies
He presented shows including Game For A Laugh and Going For Gold, and fronted several radio programmes.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM