Category Archives: Bristol South

The strange death of Labour Bristol

Here are the Euro election results for Bristol’s local authority area: Conservatives: 20,675 (19.4%) Lib Dems: 19,834 (18.6%) Labour: 17,321 (16.2%) Greens 16,735 (15.7%) UKIP: 14,647 (13.7%) BNP: 6,132 (5.7%) Pensioner Party: 2,796 English Democrats: 2,029 Christian Party: 1,363 Socialist … Continue reading

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Dim Prawn seals Gordon's fate

“Gordon Brown will be Prime Minister next week,” the monotoned moron MP for Bristol South intoned today on The Politics Show West. That’s game over for Gordon then. He’ll be gone by Wednesday. And for old time’s sake, let’s just … Continue reading

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Bank holiday Tesco slag off space filler

As news filters through that City Chairman Steve Lansdown may be about to generously give us a large Tescos retail shed in exchange for our greenbelt land at Ashton Vale to build his new football stadium on, it might be … Continue reading

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Red alert! Planning gain games

More on the Bristol City Stadium saga … This weekend found the Cancer merrily spinning away for City chairman Steve Lansdowne with a generous little page 3 hagiography on his ascent up the Sunday Times Rich List while their ‘star’ … Continue reading

Posted in Bedminster, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol South, Developments, Education, Labour Party, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Planning, Politics, Southville | Tagged , , , , , , , , | There are 69 comments

Sprawl news

News drifts in about the land assembly process for the new Bristol City FC stadium at Ashton Vale. Predictably it features a lot of familiar faces on that small but influential local developer scene. At the beginning of December 2007, … Continue reading

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The ego has landed

In Knowle West. Earlier. Long-suffering residents of the area were today treated to a keynote speech from none other than Public School Twit of the Year, George Ferguson, at the launch of some ill-fated, state funded council internet nonsense called … Continue reading

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Gone south?

Urban Spash? More of a dribble according to today’s Cancer. (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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Kate Pollard

Sad news arrives that Totterdown community activist/whirlwind Kate Pollard died in hospital in Sydney on January 2nd after a long fight against cancer. Kate died with her family in Australia, which is where she wanted to be. Kate will be … Continue reading

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