Category Archives: Lib Dems

Did you lie Councillor? Or are you merely an incompetent?

Posted on September 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The webcast for the full council meeting of 15 September is now available from the Bristol City Council website here. Using the index you can go to section 4.c Questions from the public where you will find the following: PQ3 … Continue reading →

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Those Ashton Gate Tesco questions in full

Posted on September 16, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Last night a number of people put questions to the Full Council regarding the proposed Tesco at Ashton Gate with specific reference to the piece of land that’s owned by the council. Among the most interesting unanswered questions are what … Continue reading →

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Lib Dems in office: Bishop in power: business as usual at the Council House

Posted on September 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Minor uproar has greeted this blog’s revelations that almost a fifth of the land at Ashton Gate pencilled in by Bristol City FC to become a Tesco Extra belongs to Bristol City Council. And even by the extraordinarily low intellectual … Continue reading →

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Tesco Ashton Gate: the land is ours!

Posted on September 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Looks like the cover’s blown on the Lib Dems’ claim that the Bristol City stadium and Ashton Gate Tesco developments are purely planning matters to be dealt with by their hand-picked team … Continue reading →

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The Banksy Balls effect

Posted on September 3, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Despite my, quite frankly, show stopping appearance in – arguably the best book ever – that critically acclaimed seminal work Home Sweet Home by Steve Wright, published by Tangent Books and available here and in all good book shops, I … Continue reading →

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Give us a C! Give us an O! Give us an N! Give us a dodgy ginger minger planning boss!

Posted on August 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Put it all together and what’ve we got? CONsultation … Oh look it’s Friday, must be time for another CONsultation about the stupid ‘Cycle Houses’ on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path nobody wants. The new Lib Dem administration – … Continue reading →

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What a difference a day makes …

Posted on July 16, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

This new local online news thingy, Bristol 24/7, reported on Tuesday: Simon Cook – executive member for the culture, sport and tourism projects executive – told a press conference held at the Marriott Hotel, College Green, that the costs of … Continue reading →

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World Cup footBALLS of confusion

Posted on July 2, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Are we in need of the Council House equivalent of a Kremlinologist to explain what the Lib Dem leadership’s view of the proposal to build a Tesco Extra on Ashton Gate might be? A couple of Lib Dem cabinet members … Continue reading →

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Shirley and the coconuts (legal mix)

Posted on June 27, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s been a fairly understandable level of uproar across the city since the city council published then unpublished and then republished its report (pdf) into Lib Dem councillor Shirley Marshall and her notorious ‘coconut’ slur (Blogger passim). The crux of … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSERGATE: land still not sold, another bloody CONsultation in the offing …

Posted on June 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Red Trousergate saga continues … David Bishop’s dodgy deal with George Ferguson last year to sell off protected public park land on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path still rumbles on. These are some questions and answers from tonight’s … Continue reading →

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