Category Archives: Labour Party

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 →

Posted in Bristol, Budget, Economy, GOSW, Labour Party, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | There are 14 comments

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 →

Posted in Bristol, Budget, Economy, Labour Party, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , | There are 31 comments

The McCarthy touch

Posted on December 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Another local politician shows the kind of sure touch we’ve come to expect from the city’s leadership … Wednesday found “award winning” blogger Kerry McCarthy breathlessly explaining to us “Why I haven’t been blogging.” Apparently the Bristol East MP had … Continue reading →

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Dying for a change?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

After yesterday’s eventual departure of Sharon Shoesmith, Haringay’s Director of Children’s Services, in the wake of the traumatic levels of bureaucratic failure surrounding the death of ‘Baby P’, James Barlow has been taking a look at Bristol’s Safeguarding Children Board … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Conservatives, Education, Health, Labour Party, Local government, Politics, Social Care | Tagged , , , , | There are 6 comments

Completely illegal Bristol City Council try-on of the week

Posted on November 30, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Comes, not unsurprisingly, from Heather Tomlinson’s intellectually vacuous education department. Local Campaigners trying to save the extremely good and popular Sefton Park School from congenital school wrecker, Peter Hammond’s factory-style expansion plans have recently resorted to using the Freedom of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashley, Bristol, Bristol West, CONsultants, Education, FOI, Labour Party, Local government | Tagged , , , | There are 5 comments

RED TROUSER GATE: the Cabinet questions

Posted on November 29, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s the answers to Ashley Fox’s questions to Cabinet on Thursday regarding the Railway Path land sell-off. The Blogger’s comments are in red. It’s certainly a fascinating insight into the quality of governance we’re getting: Questions from Councillor Ashley Fox … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, Conservatives, Cycling Demonstration City, Developments, Easton, Environment, Labour Party, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Politics, Transport | Tagged , , , , , | There are 16 comments

You decide: should Kerry McCarthy MP kick the Director of First Bristol in the bollocks?

Posted on November 27, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol East MP, Kerry McCarthy has just announced on her blog that she’s “seeing Mr First Bus tomorrow, with Dawn Primarolo”. I assume she means this week’s Managing Director of First Bristol – our excremental bus provider – Justin Davies. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol East, Labour Party, Politics, Transport | Tagged , , , | There are 26 comments

Local MP: People on benefits "lack social skills" and don't know "what is right or proper"

Posted on November 26, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Labour’s Bristol East MP, Kerry McCarthy, has been getting a bit of useful publicity from her slightly obscure attacks on the Jeremy Kyle Show made in Parliament yesterday. She has continued her old-fashioned Tory-style moral crusade on this less-than-urgent matter … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Bristol, Bristol East, Labour Party, Media, MPs, Politics, The British Left | Tagged , | There are 38 comments

Local MP receives minor award for blogging that's barely worth mentioning really

Posted on November 21, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Frankly unbearable levels of smugness over on Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy’s blog today after she was given some Mickey Mouse award only open to MPs for her blog. Since the news yesterday she seems to have given up any … Continue reading →

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More CONsultants joy

Posted on November 18, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

City council PR boss Simon Caplan is cross-dressing again. For this week’s edition of PRs in their eyes Matthew, Simon’s going to be education spokeswoman Julie Walton. And what joyous news she brings under the catchy headline, “Council and schools … Continue reading →

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