Monthly Archives: May 2007

Ding-dong Bells, Foie Gras it no longer sells

Big shout out to the Bristol Animal Rights Collective. After just one vocal protest outside upmarket Montpelier eaterie Bells Diner, run by media-darling chef Chris Wicks, the restaurant has stopped selling Foie-Gras with immediate effect. The Animal Rights Collective turned … Continue reading

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Golly! Bunter wants a job

A shameless pitch today from Bunter Eddy to today’s Evening Cancer for a job in the cabinet. After his and Peter Abraham’s vomit inducing moral homilies and lectures to the Lib Dems on responsibilty and integrity on Tueday night, we … Continue reading

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Bristol's Knights of the Brown Nose

Croydonian has compiled a list of Labour MPs who have not put their name to the pathetic, anti-democratic coronation of  Gordon Brown as Labour leader. New Labour Brown nosers to the bone, not one Bristol MP is on that  list. … Continue reading

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I'm backing Bolton!

I’m sick of these mainstream party tossers pissing about and refusing to run the council so I’ve started a campaign to get Charlie Bolton to run for leader. If you think Charlie Bolton should cut through the crap and run … Continue reading

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"There are going to be some stark choices ahead"

Yesterday’s Guardian had an interesting interview with Sarah Pickup, Hertfordshire’s Director of Social Services, on the stark financial issues facing adult social care provision – which includes home care services. Unfortunately the interview is not on the web yet. Pickup … Continue reading

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Back to the future

Just like the good old days… Peter Hammond prancing like a tit in the council chamber; John Bees slamming down his copy of The Daily Star, stubbing out his Lambie and reprising his tired old working class, man of the … Continue reading

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Evelyn Post #3

Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name.

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Another bloody shambles!

Having fought an election campaign “to save home care”, Bristol Labour Party have now declined the opportunity to do so! After rejecting Lib Dem efforts earlier this evening to form a minority administration to run the city, the Labour Party … Continue reading

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Lib Dems lose control of the council

The Liberal Democrats have lost control of Bristol City Council at the Council House this evening after the Tories joined with Labour to vote to reject a minority Lib Dem administration led by new leader Steve Comer. The central issue … Continue reading

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Sacrilege!

Further proof, as if it’s needed, that this city is run by an unholy alliance of charlatans, philistines, bureaucratic retards and the plain demented. Last week the bastards demolished Radiant House, by far the best modernist building in the city … Continue reading

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