Category Archives: Home Care

REVEALED: £2m cuts for the city's most vulnerable

Posted on November 30, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

While our idiot councillors and idiot senior council officers write out a blank cheque to an international Swiss gangster operation for something between £17m and £40m – depending on who you want to believe – to host four football matches … Continue reading →

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MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE – Full Council Meeting, 10th Feb 2009

Posted on February 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

By Martin Whitelock The inevitable happened: – LibDems will wait until the June election in the likelihood of being voted in by the electorate as they are now the majority party in Bristol. – Conservatives got severely reprimanded by LibDem … Continue reading →

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Gravy train update

Posted on February 3, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The Tax Payers Alliance have published the latest in their ‘council spending uncovered’ series. Their last outing, you may recall, showed that Bristol City Council’s communications budget has increased by 275% in the last ten years and is now costing … Continue reading →

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Bristol Labour Party's exciting new policy unveiled

Posted on January 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Having already reneged on their election promise not to privatise Bristol’s home care service any further by introducing measures that will see 75% of the home care service delivered privately, now Bristol Labour unveil phase 2 of their exciting plans … Continue reading →

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Bristol Labour watch

Posted on November 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Green councillor Charlie Bolton points out in the depths of his blog that Labour’s new proposals for the home care service will break their election promise not to privatise any more of the service. Labour’s social services boss, Peter Hammond … Continue reading →

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Hammond does it again!

Posted on November 18, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As expected Labour’s Deputy Leader, the bearded fool, Peter Hammond is destroying yet more of Bristol’s Social Services because the hopeless incompetent can’t understand – let alone control – expenditure in his department (again). Back in 2005, as leader of … Continue reading →

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Hammond's homecare plans unravel

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Peter Hammond and the Labour Party’s promise at the last local election was to keep the city’s home care service “in-house”. We might have understood from this there would be no more privatisation of Bristol city council’s home care service … Continue reading →

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Who'd have ever guessed it?

Posted on November 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol City Council is looking for urgent savings in this year’s budget of up to £2 million. It is overspending on waste services (£1.5m), care for the elderly (£1.5m), taxi services for special needs youngsters (£400,000) and concessionary bus fares … Continue reading →

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The strategic genius of Peter Hammond

Posted on October 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As the bearded moron, Labour’s social services executive member, Peter Hammond sets about reorganising the city’s home care service under the personal direction of his friends in the trade unions, perhaps now is the time to recall the brilliant strategist’s … Continue reading →

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Home care watch

Posted on October 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Having less-than-adroitly reneged on one set of ridiculous and uncosted election promises – around waste collection – through the use of a so-called citizen’s jury, a process handily managed by a Labour-friendly organisation in exchange for a fat fee, Helen … Continue reading →

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