Category Archives: Lib Dems

STOP PRESS: It's game over for Bradshaw as Lib Dems come off the fence

Posted on March 17, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Stabbed in the back by his own party, now Bristol’s Lib Dems have kicked Bradshaw right in the bollocks! The Lib Dems have tonight announced their opposition to a BRT route on the cyclepath. Eastville Lib Dem councillor Muriel writes: … Continue reading →

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Ignoble Savage better for you than Greens?

Posted on March 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

No sign yet of a formal press release announcing the arrival of “Junket” Jan Ormondroyd to run Bristol City Council. So we’ll just have to make do with the one that the council’s PR girl Simon Caplan did back in … Continue reading →

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Swivel-eyed liberal loonwatch

Posted on March 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Fruitcake A grudging hat-tip to James Barlow for this story, although I don’t see why we should when it’s obvious he’s just signed up to the same ‘They Work for You’ alert as we are. Anyway, very strange outburst from … Continue reading →

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It's official! Bus route is "quite loopy"

Posted on March 3, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrUAhel8aDg] Bristol West MP Stephen Williams has slammed the plan to turn the Bristol and Bath Railway Path into a guided bus route as “daft” and “quite loopy”. Williams visited the path, which is now in his constituency, during the … Continue reading →

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Cyclepath: Lib Dem press release

Posted on February 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Just in: Here we don’ t go again – Wrong turning on Bristol Rapid Bus Bristol is in danger of losing government funding for a rapid guided bus network, the Liberal Democrats are warning. Bristol and surrounding authorities could lose … Continue reading →

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A new trough for a new day

Posted on February 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like cash-strapped Stephen Williams MP has come up with a new and imaginative way to squander taxpayers money. How about paying to publish – in the local glossie for the yoof, Venue – a sartorially challenged picture of … Continue reading →

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Fancy that!

Posted on February 5, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

I recently received my copy of ‘Our City’, which replaces the former Bristol News. I would like to compliment the officers who worked on the publication for a job well done. Explaining the City Council’s Draft Budget is not an … Continue reading →

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Snout watch (featuring trough of the week)

Posted on February 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to ‘Poor Dear’ on the dazzlingly revamped Bristol Indymedia for this one. With spectacularly bad timing, Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams has used his weekly web-based ‘Westminster Yawnfest’ (surely diary? ed.) to complain about his pay. You see, the … Continue reading →

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Cyclepath: here come the sketches!

Posted on February 1, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

How wide do they think the cycle path is? A quick roundup of cycle path related shenanigans … The meeting arranged for Tuesday 5 February 2008 at 7.30pm is at Easton Community Centre, not Easton Leisure Centre or The Cornubia. … Continue reading →

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Oh no … It looks like it's time for the infamous south Bristol ring road gambit!

Posted on January 28, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

With the plan to turn the Bristol and Bath Cycle Path into a bus route formally announced, it looks likely local politicians will be readying themselves to play the infamous south Bristol ring road gambit. This is an extraordinary technique … Continue reading →

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