Category Archives: Green Party

Report from last night’s Council Meeting

Posted on April 2, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

By Chris Hutt from the Comments It all started so well, with Charlie Bolton’s original motion getting beefed up by a Lib-Dem amendment which he accepted. Railway Path supporters cheered and clapped. It looked for a few moments like we … Continue reading →

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Ignoble Savage better for you than Greens?

Posted on March 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

No sign yet of a formal press release announcing the arrival of “Junket” Jan Ormondroyd to run Bristol City Council. So we’ll just have to make do with the one that the council’s PR girl Simon Caplan did back in … Continue reading →

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Cyclepath: here come the sketches!

Posted on February 1, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

How wide do they think the cycle path is? A quick roundup of cycle path related shenanigans … The meeting arranged for Tuesday 5 February 2008 at 7.30pm is at Easton Community Centre, not Easton Leisure Centre or The Cornubia. … Continue reading →

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More Bristol News news

Posted on January 19, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The battle to save the Marksbury Road Library, situated in the middle of one of the most deprived areas of the city, takes a new turn. The Bristol Green Party is proposing that the extra £100,000 earmarked by the Labour … Continue reading →

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In praise of Peter Goodwin

Posted on January 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Well done to the Green Party’s Peter Goodwin who’s proving himself to be a fully paid up member of Bristol’s depressingly small political awkward squad. Goodwin made good use of Freedom of Information legislation last autumn to obtain information from … Continue reading →

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Toff's looney index

Posted on September 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The latest salvo fired by this emerging toff/green alliance is today’s publication of the Tory’s Quality of Life Report, produced by billionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith and Thatcherite oddity John Gummer, fondly remembered by many for trying to force feed his … Continue reading →

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Greener than thou

Posted on August 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

An ungreen corn starch bag? A green newspaper? We all know what bloody environmentalists are like once they get going, so it might be asking for trouble bringing this up, but I notice that both of our green blogger friends … Continue reading →

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How that CONgestion cash cow coming soon really works

Posted on July 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Thursday night, during another stroppy and less than impressive full city council meeting, one of the only things the Lib Dems and Labour managed to agree on was voting down Tory leader Bunter Eddy’s motion to have a referendum on … Continue reading →

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The Bristol Blookie (Live from Alcester)

Posted on May 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Get ready to gamble… The Bristol Blookie’s EXCLUSIVE will-not-be-beaten odds on the outcome of tomorrow night’s council meeting. (Brought to you LIVE from next door to Teddy’s Tiny Tots Nursery, Alcester) 3 – 1: Lib Dem minority administration supported by … Continue reading →

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Bolton takes up the gauntlet!

Posted on May 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Yet another successful campaign from The Blogger. Charlie Bolton has picked up The Blogger’s gauntlet and has announced in today’s Evening Cancer that he is ready to stand as leader if the leadership vacuum at Bristol City Council is not … Continue reading →

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