Category Archives: Labour Party

Prostitution poll joy

Posted on November 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Following The Blogger’s latest tirade on prostitution in Eastville last month, the local MP, Kerry McCarthy, has set up a poll on her website to explore opinion on the issue. Options include the setting up of a formal tolerance zone … 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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Things that come back to haunt you

Posted on November 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Kerry McCarthy has this to say about Labour’s new foreign office GOAT (Government of all the talents – geddit!), Mark Malloch Brown: he clearly has a huge breadth of knowledge, gained from years of working at the UN. I think … Continue reading →

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Half our pupils are missing

Posted on November 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Can it only be last week that Labour’s deranged multiculturalist guru Peter Hammond announced: he believed school was a place we went for the opportunity to meet other cultures that lived around us. But oh dear. What a shock. How … 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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Museum of Bristol update

Posted on November 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Predictably the Labour Cabinet nodded through on Thursday the £25m Museum of Bristol project on the site of the Industrial Museum. And just in case any of our elected representatives – not in the cabinet – might have wanted to … Continue reading →

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The Big Arse: greenwash photo-op watch

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Pictured is an embarrassing clown alongside someone dressed up as Robin Hood. The question that needs to printed on that bit of paper is ‘can Bristol bear this idiot in charge any longer?’ What passes for a leader in this … 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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Will our new museum be Bristol's very own chamber of financial horrors?

Posted on November 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Blimey. It looks like Bristol’s Tories have finally woken up and decided to start acting like an opposition after six months of pointless fawning over Labour’s Bees-Holland-Hammond council leadership triumvirate of proven incompetents. They even appear to have bothered to … Continue reading →

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Full of Eastern promise?

Posted on November 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol East MPs old and new in the news this week. The former MP until 2005, Jean Corston, the New labour ultra-Blairite ultra-loyalist whose ruthless focus on her Westminster career rather than her constituents saw her rise to be Chair … Continue reading →

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