Category Archives: Budget

Senior officer moment

Posted on October 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

UNISON have been asking some useful questions about senior officers’ fat cat six-figure salaries down at the Counts Louse. Possibly overlooked in the frenzy over Tesco at Ashton Gate and Steve Lansdown’s admission that his £60m stadium, as predicted, is … Continue reading →

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Minister Tumblr

Posted on August 17, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The internet’s alive – 160 articles of varying quality based on the same news release and counting – to the Twitter of Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy being appointed ‘Twitter Tsar’ for the Labour Party’s doomed general election campaign next … Continue reading →

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Labour Party leadership speculation Easter special

Posted on April 9, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Our man sipping Champagne with the socialists says there’s already open talk in the Bristol Labour Party of the possibility that they could lose eight council seats at the local elections on June 4. This has led to much speculation … Continue reading →

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Legal news

Posted on March 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APj_-6HUg1s] Fine sport at yesterday evening’s highly entertaining 14 minute marathon cabinet meeting as our morally challenged snob of a new leader, Babs Janke, treated us to a remarkable lesson in relativism as she defended her racist councillor, Shirley Marshall … Continue reading →

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Eh?

Posted on March 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Lots of Lib Dem budget amendments. A fair few went through. Including one that I spoke to: a 150k proposal for domestic violence work (perpetrators work etc). I felt proud to be able to promote this particular proposal. I welcomed … Continue reading →

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Labour resign!

Posted on February 24, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Yep, the city council’s vile and incompetent Labour regime has quit after their budget was laughed out of the Counts Louse. That’s the good news. And the bad news? That ridiculous home counties snob Babs Janke has just been voted … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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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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 →

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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 →

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