Monthly Archives: December 2007

Banksy Balls at the Arnolfini

Trudging home on a windswept Thursday night past the Arnolfini, the sight of a table full of free red wine in the book shop was enough to pull The Blogger in to grab a ten quid copy of Home Sweet … Continue reading

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Rotten borough latest

A friend of The Blogger’s with a good head for figures has produced a very handy spreadsheet listing every donation handed to the Labour Party by a local ‘Labour Group’ since records started in 2001. ‘Labour Groups’ are the ones … Continue reading

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Labour funding: an interesting proximity of cash to candidacy

Another day, another ‘Bristol Labour Group’ donation mystery . . . But first a quick recap: What we have is cash donations amounting to exactly £10k, made in two large tranches, from an unincorporated association – ‘the Bristol Labour Group’, … Continue reading

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No. I am Spartacus!

The launch of Home Sweet Home – Bristol’s very own Banksy book – tonight at the Apple is shaping up to be good sport. Not only will it feature local grafitti types, photographers, banksy fans, art scene movers, publishing shakers … Continue reading

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KRS guest post

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Roger and them

Gotcha! Yesterday we mentioned a city council officer – Roger Livingston – who works for ‘the Bristol Labour Group’ in an office at the Council House where tens of thousands of pounds worth of apparently anonymous donations to the Labour … Continue reading

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Those dodgy Labour group donations in full . . .

Here they are. Labour Party donations originating from an unincorporated association based in a publicly-owned building at an office staffed by council officers . . .

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Labour funding: Do we have two associations with one member working from the same office?

It gets murkier and murkier with regards to whatever ‘the Bristol Labour Group’ is and their generous £10k cash donation to the Bristol North West Constituency Labour Party. It almost seems as if there’s two Bristol Labour Groups operating at … Continue reading

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Labour funding: now we have an association of one!

As reported yesterday, ‘the Bristol Labour Group’ – an unincorporated association listing a Council House address – has donated £10,000 in cash in this year alone to the Bristol North West Labour Constituency Party. The presumption yesterday was that ‘the … Continue reading

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Labour funding: local angles (1)

While leafing through the Electoral Commission’s register of donations to political parties we find a most unusual couple of entries. It seems that the Bristol Labour Group – an unincorporated association registered at the Council House – made two donations … Continue reading

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