Category Archives: Bristol West

Bad losers of the year award

Posted on December 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Take a bow Bristol City Council as more evidence of decrepit leadership and the collapse of moral authority at the Council House is revealed. Another example of Bristol City Council blatantly bending and abusing the law and legal process to … Continue reading →

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Green balls

Posted on December 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Some daft survey conducted by “marketing specialists” CECI, has decided the greenest location in Britain is Redland closely followed by Clifton, a report in the very slow news pages of today’s Observer says. It’s not very clear how they worked … Continue reading →

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Completely illegal Bristol City Council try-on of the week

Posted on November 30, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Comes, not unsurprisingly, from Heather Tomlinson’s intellectually vacuous education department. Local Campaigners trying to save the extremely good and popular Sefton Park School from congenital school wrecker, Peter Hammond’s factory-style expansion plans have recently resorted to using the Freedom of … Continue reading →

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Saturday night at the movies

Posted on March 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Two new films about the Railway Path here. Both, in their own way, are far more representative of the traditional left than unwashed hippy “Green Protestors” the Cancer would have you believe. One features Labour’s prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol West, Developments, Easton, Eastville, Environment, Hillfields, Labour Party, Lawrence Hill, Local government, Politics, Respect Party, The Downs, Transport, WESP | Tagged , | There are 31 comments

Swivel-eyed liberal loonwatch

Posted on March 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Fruitcake A grudging hat-tip to James Barlow for this story, although I don’t see why we should when it’s obvious he’s just signed up to the same ‘They Work for You’ alert as we are. Anyway, very strange outburst from … Continue reading →

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A new trough for a new day

Posted on February 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like cash-strapped Stephen Williams MP has come up with a new and imaginative way to squander taxpayers money. How about paying to publish – in the local glossie for the yoof, Venue – a sartorially challenged picture of … Continue reading →

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Snout watch (featuring trough of the week)

Posted on February 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to ‘Poor Dear’ on the dazzlingly revamped Bristol Indymedia for this one. With spectacularly bad timing, Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams has used his weekly web-based ‘Westminster Yawnfest’ (surely diary? ed.) to complain about his pay. You see, the … Continue reading →

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First in line

Posted on January 27, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Mark Bradshaw, Labour’s architect of the plans to convert the Bristol and Bath Cycle Path into a rapid transit route, is very keen to play down any role First Bus – Bristol’s most hated firm – might have in the … Continue reading →

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