Category Archives: Labour Party

Bristol Election 2007 at a glance

Lib Dems – 31 (-2) Labour – 25 (+2) Conservative – 13 Green – 1 Labour are winners on the night with 29% of the vote and 2 gains. Lib Dems get 27% of vote and lose 2 seats. Tories … Continue reading

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Bristol Election 2007 with The Bristol Blogger

Bristol’s state of the art digital graphics election tour-de-force… Follow Bristol’s election results as they happen with expert commentary, analysis and graphics. Here’s how it works: The Blogger’s scientifically calculated predictions by ward are listed below. Wards in bold are … Continue reading

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Election predictions

The Blogger is not doing ward-by-ward predictions as it’s too complicated and some of the contests involve very local affairs and isuues and are too tough to call. However, overall The Blogger thinks it will pan out something like this: … Continue reading

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Makes me wanna holler – inner city news

A lot of high value election entertainment to be had over in the inner city at the moment. Labour’s Lawrence Hill candidate Bush Rat Ali, the Photoshop faker (Blogger passim) has already added considerably to the city’s mirth levels with … Continue reading

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Election stuff to make you raise an eyebrow

Some eyebrow raising in Hillfields at present as the Labour candidate, Martin Golding puts out a leaflet assuring the electorate he “lives locally”. Shame his nomination papers list his address as upmarket Westbury-on-Trym on the other side of town then. … Continue reading

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The Bristol Blogger: News updates

A couple of brief updates on some stories: Bush Rat Ali, the Lawrence Hill Labour Photoshop faker Whispers reach The Blogger that The Evening Cancer is declining to run the Photoshop faker story because “it is too sensitive” for election … Continue reading

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Nepotism watch: keeping it in the trade union family

We’re all fairly used to the fact that the toffs and the upper middle classes have always openly used nepotism as a simple method to get on and up the career ladder. A little helping hand from daddy at appropriate … Continue reading

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The Blogger investigates… The mystery of the missing candidate

A palpable sigh of relief here at Blogger HQ as Bristol East MP, Kerry McCarthy returns to her blog after a break of almost three weeks. Surprisingly her online absence on this occasion had nothing to do with the obsessive … Continue reading

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Bush Rat the Movie: 'Working for Britin' (sic)

Here it is. Meet Photoshop faker Bush Rat Ali the Lawrence Hill Labour Bhangra Boyo (he’s also head of the South Wales Muslim League). Laugh then cry as you realise the kind of imbecile the people who run the country … Continue reading

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Bristol Labour Photoshop Horror!

Thanks to Guido Fawkes for the photo. Seems the Labour candidate for Lawrence Hill, Busharat Ali, has been caught faking photographs of himself on stop the war marches. Full details here. Ali has also been somewhat coy about how long … Continue reading

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