Category Archives: Bristol

Rotten borough latest

Posted on December 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A friend of The Blogger’s with a good head for figures has produced a very handy spreadsheet listing every donation handed to the Labour Party by a local ‘Labour Group’ since records started in 2001. ‘Labour Groups’ are the ones … Continue reading →

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Labour funding: an interesting proximity of cash to candidacy

Posted on December 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Another day, another ‘Bristol Labour Group’ donation mystery . . . But first a quick recap: What we have is cash donations amounting to exactly £10k, made in two large tranches, from an unincorporated association – ‘the Bristol Labour Group’, … Continue reading →

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No. I am Spartacus!

Posted on December 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The launch of Home Sweet Home – Bristol’s very own Banksy book – tonight at the Apple is shaping up to be good sport. Not only will it feature local grafitti types, photographers, banksy fans, art scene movers, publishing shakers … Continue reading →

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KRS guest post

Posted on December 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

 Bristle KRS

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Roger and them

Posted on December 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Gotcha! Yesterday we mentioned a city council officer – Roger Livingston – who works for ‘the Bristol Labour Group’ in an office at the Council House where tens of thousands of pounds worth of apparently anonymous donations to the Labour … Continue reading →

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Those dodgy Labour group donations in full . . .

Posted on December 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here they are. Labour Party donations originating from an unincorporated association based in a publicly-owned building at an office staffed by council officers . . .

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Labour funding: Do we have two associations with one member working from the same office?

Posted on December 4, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It gets murkier and murkier with regards to whatever ‘the Bristol Labour Group’ is and their generous £10k cash donation to the Bristol North West Constituency Labour Party. It almost seems as if there’s two Bristol Labour Groups operating at … Continue reading →

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Labour funding: now we have an association of one!

Posted on December 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As reported yesterday, ‘the Bristol Labour Group’ – an unincorporated association listing a Council House address – has donated £10,000 in cash in this year alone to the Bristol North West Labour Constituency Party. The presumption yesterday was that ‘the … Continue reading →

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Labour funding: local angles (1)

Posted on December 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

While leafing through the Electoral Commission’s register of donations to political parties we find a most unusual couple of entries. It seems that the Bristol Labour Group – an unincorporated association registered at the Council House – made two donations … Continue reading →

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Cancer on the case (again)

Posted on December 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Another big shout out to Evening Cancer editor Mike Norton and his super smart newsroom boys. “PAY AS YOU THROW” thundered the front page of our ever so good local newspaper yesterday. “ A “pay-as-you-throw” scheme charging householders £2 per … Continue reading →

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