Monthly Archives: February 2009

Shirley and the coconuts

Shirley and the Coconuts … Sounds a bit like a band that had a couple of top ten hits with some sharp calypso inflected disco tunes in the early eighties – courtesy of Hopkins, Rogers and Wright, the legendary production … Continue reading

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Mimosa: "expect arrests imminently"?

Oh dear, what a bad day for the Mimosa Healthcare Group in Bristol. You can be forgiven if you took your eye off the ball today – what with all that underwhelming Babs taking over from Helen bollocks at the … Continue reading

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Health, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics, Privatisation | Tagged , , , , | There are 3 comments

Labour resign!

Yep, the city council’s vile and incompetent Labour regime has quit after their budget was laughed out of the Counts Louse. That’s the good news. And the bad news? That ridiculous home counties snob Babs Janke has just been voted … Continue reading

Posted in Bristol, Budget, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics | Tagged | There are 38 comments

From the archives: car parks not kids!

Lest we forget … Here’s Labour leader Helen Holland’s “explicit endorsement in the media” for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’s car parking arrangements over the education of the city’s children. Bristol Evening Post: We’re bowled over by world class ambition Bristol … Continue reading

Posted in Bishopston, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol West, Developments, Education, Labour Party, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , | There are 4 comments

Howzat!! Bristol Labour Party caught taking orders from cricket club toffs and House of Lords lobbyists

The Gruesome truth about school places in North Bristol: what you won’t be reading in the Evening Cancer … by lilly manilly Whatever happened to that new school at Ashley Down? They spent enough money on the feasibility studies and … Continue reading

Posted in Bishopston, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol West, CONsultants, Developments, Education, FOI, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | There are 15 comments

Chickens on the way home

Just been leafing through some Bristol City Council cabinet minutes from 22 February 2007 and item 7 (pdf) catches the eye. The title is ‘Bishopston Ward Primary School’ and it’s a report all about the city council’s plan to build … Continue reading

Posted in Bishopston, Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Education, Labour Party, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , | There are 17 comments

It tolls for thee Kathy

Strong rumours have been reverberating around the Blogger’s newswires today that the coroner will be opening an inquest tomorrow into the death of a former resident at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home last autumn (Blogger passim). The news might come as … Continue reading

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Health, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Social Care | Tagged , , , | There are 13 comments

Achtung Palestina!

I see Bristol’s contribution to George Galloway’s glorious Viva Palestina! convoy has set forth on their mercy mission to the holy land. And is it really a surprise that indefatigable George is bravely leading from the front in a brand … Continue reading

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Hopeless Hammond's merry-go-round

I see that Labour’s education boss, the congenital idiot Peter Hammond – a Labour Party bearded equal opportunities bore who can’t get out of bed in the morning without first procuring an equalities impact assessment and consulting extensively with a … Continue reading

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Carboot Circus: "an absurd bubble"

While the council and the Cancer continue to talk up the new Carboot Circus shopping centre with endless waffle about best shopping centre in the world ever awards to the accompaniment of some highly speculative footfall figures, the economic reality … Continue reading

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