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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Robotics news
Looks like New Labour’s TOP SECRET Robotics Division have been working overtime in their TOP SECRET lab deep in the bowels of the Houses of Parliament. And we can report that the K3RR4 model that’s been so badly malfunctioning over … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Bristol, Bristol East, Labour Party, MPs, Politics
Tagged Kerry McCarthy
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Corporate backscratch (with added greenwash)
Well, well, well … Who’s this sponsoring the Evening Cancer Business Awards 2008 then? Why knock me down with 10,000 tons of high strength concrete if it isn’t Atkins, the multinational civil engineering outfit (Blogger passim) who’ve recently received a … Continue reading
St Christopher of Orlik?
Does the former Labour Councillor for Windmill Hill, Christopher Orlik know something about his former employers we don’t? Not only has he joined the campaign to save the railway path but he’s rejected all the usual sedate campaigning pastimes aimed … Continue reading
Democracy update
Simon Bale – new boss of yet another one of the city’s ever-multiplying quangos, the Bristol Partnership – breaks cover in the Cancer today to answer a few soft questions optimistically billed as “an interview” by the Cancer’s imaginative subs. … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Local government, Politics
Tagged Bristol Partnership, Simon Bale
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Redland Green: another finance farce
When you’re at work, have you ever wondered why the receptionist doesn’t order £75,000 of luxury office furniture on a whim and the admin assistant doesn’t decide on a boring Friday afternoon to order a new £2m fleet of Mercedes … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Education, Local government
Tagged Carew Reynell, Redland Green School
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Redland Green School:auditor's report
The auditors report into the £6m Redland Green School overspend has been published (pdf). James Barlow has done an excellent in-depth analysis on his blog but the meat on bones of this report can be found in section 10 – … Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Bradshaw exposes himself!
… As Sustrans reject fig leaf role More bad news for Labour’s transport boss Mark Bradshaw as his desperate attempts to control the fallout from revelations that he intends to turn the Bristol and Bath Railway Path in to a … Continue reading
Who's paying for Pigfucker's party then?
Rumour reaches the Blogger that outgoing waste-of-space Chief Exec Pigfucker Gurney is having a leaving party and personal invitations are on the way to the select few of well remunerated brown-nosers and civic dignitaries right now. Strangely the Blogger hasn’t … Continue reading
Railway path spinwatch
Labour transport boss Bradshaw and his press spokeswoman Kate Hartas – who seems to flit from working for the city council to the West of England Partnership and back again on a regular basis without ever troubling the truth a … Continue reading
Waffle watch
“We are all constantly striving to achieve clarity in all communications.” Helen Holland, Bristol Evening Post, 16 February 2008 By reviewing the Corporate Plan at the same time as the review of the Bristol Partnership’s Sustainable Community Strategy (please see … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Labour Party, Local government
Tagged Helen Holland
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