Monthly Archives: September 2009

Did you lie Councillor? Or are you merely an incompetent?

Posted on September 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The webcast for the full council meeting of 15 September is now available from the Bristol City Council website here. Using the index you can go to section 4.c Questions from the public where you will find the following: PQ3 … Continue reading →

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The real BCFC pro-forma letter …

Posted on September 24, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Bcfc Supporters Letter by bristol_citizen on Scribd

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EXCLUSIVE LEAKED DOCUMENT!!!! the pro-forma letter that spells the end for the anti-Tesco brigade

Posted on September 22, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Want Tescos? Want a new stadium? Want the World Cup? Send your pro-forma letter objecting to spoilsport Green councillor Charlie Bolton now! Exclusively here on the Bristol Blogger is that letter, crafted to perfection for you by Bristol City FC … Continue reading →

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Postscript: Tesco value MP

Posted on September 20, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A small amuse-bouche to yesterday’s Dim Prawn main course of refusing to get your hands dirty critcising Tesco … Bristol East MP, Kerry McCarthy, is now holding constituency surgeries at Tesco Extra in Brislington! How long before Labour drop the … Continue reading →

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Resurrected Red Dawn rises?

Posted on September 19, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Actually I very much doubt it … But I was re-reading one of Dawn’s HearFromYourMP alerts – the sterile monthly dirge the Dim Prawn delivers direct to my mailbox – from July, which had this to say about the Tesco … Continue reading →

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Those Ashton Gate Tesco questions in full

Posted on September 16, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Last night a number of people put questions to the Full Council regarding the proposed Tesco at Ashton Gate with specific reference to the piece of land that’s owned by the council. Among the most interesting unanswered questions are what … Continue reading →

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Lib Dems in office: Bishop in power: business as usual at the Council House

Posted on September 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Minor uproar has greeted this blog’s revelations that almost a fifth of the land at Ashton Gate pencilled in by Bristol City FC to become a Tesco Extra belongs to Bristol City Council. And even by the extraordinarily low intellectual … Continue reading →

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Blog of the week

Posted on September 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s been a good week locally for mentalist blog posts. The Blogger’s own balloon dueling effort rather pales into insignificance alongside the Green Bristol Blogger’s ‘THREE DIE IN BANKSY QUEUE‘ extravaganza today and Charlie’s fascinating insight that if you were … Continue reading →

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"I’m ten years younger, two stone heavier, and I haven’t had my nuts taken off by academia"

Posted on September 9, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A list of great literary feuds would be a long one. They’re all at it aren’t they? Who can forget Salman “somewhere in Las Vegas there’s probably a male prostitute called ‘John Updike’” Rushdie? The effervescing Barnes vs Amis relationship … Continue reading →

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A City supporter writes …

Posted on September 7, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Of course, all City fans are behind Steve Lansdown’s new stadium, the World Cup bid and the plan to put a Tesco Extra on Ashton Gate aren’t they? It’s only Gas Heads, political agitators and people who hate football who … Continue reading →

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