Category Archives: Bristol

New for the New Year … Meet The Spongers!

Posted on January 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Spongers will be a new and irregular feature on The Bristol Blogger for 2009. (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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City Council budget balls: go figure

Posted on January 9, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The ruling Labour group has unveiled what it calls a prudent budget for hard times … but Council leader Helen Holland says there will be no cuts in frontline services Bristol Evening Post, 9 December 2009 That makes things pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Budget, Economy, Labour Party, Local government, Politics, Trade Unionism | Tagged , , , , , | There are 17 comments

Kate Pollard

Posted on January 8, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

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 →

Posted in Activism, Bristol, Bristol South, Local government, Politics, Totterdown, Transport | Tagged , , | There are 10 comments

News from ze Heatherbunker: ze final direktive

Posted on December 31, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name) HAPPY NEW YEAR – we’re off to a good start anyway …

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BRT: York notes

Posted on December 20, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Private Eye’s ‘Dr B Ching’ has been taking a look at First Group’s ftr (which stands for “future” public transport!) bendy buses that have been operating in York since 2006. The system is very similar to the bendy bus BRT … Continue reading →

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City council budget balls (3)

Posted on December 18, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Well, well, well. What’s this in yesterday’s letter to Chancellor Darling from the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, explaining why this month’s inflation figure of 4.1% is above the government’s target rate of 2%? It is likely … Continue reading →

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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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City council budget balls (2)

Posted on December 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Lib Dem Councillor Gary Hopkins, perhaps not entirely seriously, is proposing a way out for the city’s collapsing economy in the comments section: One area where promotion of the city abroad could produce dividends is in tourism. We are a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Budget, Economy, GOSW, Labour Party, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | There are 14 comments

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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City council budget balls (1)

Posted on December 11, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Predictably, Bristol City Council are doing bugger-all for us as the credit crunch bites and talk of economic downturn turns to recession and even depression and we confront what’s looking like the worst economic situation since the Second World War. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Budget, Economy, Labour Party, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , | There are 31 comments