Category Archives: Lib Dems

Bristol Election 2007 at a glance

Posted on May 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

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

Posted on May 3, 2007 by 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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Inner city Lib Dem blues?

Posted on May 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Reports of a historically low turnout so far in Easton especially in the Lib Dem heartland of Whitehall. It looks like Labour and Lib Dem voters rather than switching might be staying at home to express their disapproval. Senior Lib … Continue reading →

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Election predictions

Posted on May 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

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

Posted on May 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

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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Nepotism watch: keeping it in the trade union family

Posted on April 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

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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Banksy balls

Posted on April 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

I suppose it’s some sort of an achievement to have people like local Lib Dem rubbish czar Gary Hopkins gushing over your work. It denotes a high level of recognition and acceptance by the blandest section of the mainstream at … Continue reading →

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Trolleygate

Posted on April 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Shit? Is it Thursday already? Must be time to report on this week’s fuck up by the city council’s head of legal services, Stephen McNamara. At the end of last year the cabinet decided that Bristol City Council would use … Continue reading →

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The local election round-up starts here…

Posted on April 18, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Another year another damp squib of an election in Bristol. As usual, with only one-third of the seats up for grabs in the city, any changes to the political make-up of the city council are likely to be marginal with … Continue reading →

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Election? What election?

Posted on April 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

What with it being election time, The Blogger thought he better find out a bit about the candidates standing, party manifestos and the like. Where better to look than the internet? Um, anywhere really, judging by the miserable efforts made … Continue reading →

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