Monthly Archives: April 2007

Waffleshed Latest

Posted on April 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

More phoney baloney emanating from the Watershed in the wake of its £6m government handout entirely for the benefit of the city’s wealthy, if underemployed, ‘creatives’. The world’s most pretentious cinema manager, Watershed boss Dick Penny, gushes to Maurice Fells … Continue reading →

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Gott in Himmel! Das Bristol BNP ist bonkerz

Posted on April 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Der Griffinführer: “Ich bin ein teapot” Increasingly deranged noises – other than the new Bryan Ferry album – emerging from der Griffinführer’s London Nutterzbunker in response to the BNP having their sorry arses kicked out of Fishponds on Tuesday night. … Continue reading →

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Trolleygate

Posted on April 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Shit? Is it Thursday already? Must be time to report on this week’s fuck up by the city council’s head of legal services, Stephen McNamara. At the end of last year the cabinet decided that Bristol City Council would use … Continue reading →

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BNP confonted in Frome Vale

Posted on April 18, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Seems that the BNP’s canvassing in Frome Vale is running into a few problems. Vile witch Michaela Mackenzie and a couple of fellow BNP workers out delivering leaflets were confronted and driven out of the ward last night by a … Continue reading →

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The local election round-up starts here…

Posted on April 18, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Another year another damp squib of an election in Bristol. As usual, with only one-third of the seats up for grabs in the city, any changes to the political make-up of the city council are likely to be marginal with … Continue reading →

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Middle class government handout joy

Posted on April 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Unrestrained joy here at Blogger HQ as news filters down that SWRDA, the laughably inept regional development quango for the south west, has decided to subsidise the ‘creative industries’ in Bristol to the tune of £6m. The beneficiaries of this … Continue reading →

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NUJ boycott Israeli goods

Posted on April 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This’ll do wonders for their credibility… The National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year’s war in Lebanon. The Guardian Apparently this is in … Continue reading →

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The strange death of anarchist England

Posted on April 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Earlier today a reader attempted to post The Blogger’s story about the BNP’s Nominating Officer on UK Indymedia’s independent news site “offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.” Seems reasonable to me. The rise of the … Continue reading →

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In the Post

Posted on April 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Local public sector PR consultant now mooonlighting for the Evening Post, Maurice Fells, semi-coherently rambles his way through a list of pubs due for demolition in today’s paper. He says: “… in Parson Street, the Enterprise Inn has been locked … Continue reading →

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Are you living next door to a fascist? Whitchurch Park

Posted on April 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As part of The Blogger’s public service remit he now brings you the names and addresses of all the proposers, seconders and assentors for Bristol’s BNP candidates. 3. Whitchurch Park Candidate: Kerry Ellen Luckett 146 Fulford Road Hartcliffe Bristol BS13 … Continue reading →

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