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Category Archives: Local elections 2007
Oh no … It looks like it's time for the infamous south Bristol ring road gambit!
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
Rotten Borough: welcome to the Labour launderette
Did ya hear the one about the local political party that returns three MPs to Westminster and has run the city council for most of the last 30 years but doesn’t present any public accounts? You have now. It’s Bristol’s … Continue reading
Hammond's homecare plans unravel
Peter Hammond and the Labour Party’s promise at the last local election was to keep the city’s home care service “in-house”. We might have understood from this there would be no more privatisation of Bristol city council’s home care service … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Home Care, Labour Party, Local elections 2007, Local government, Politics
Tagged Alun Beynon, Peter Hammond, Sean Beynon
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Who'd have ever guessed it?
Bristol City Council is looking for urgent savings in this year’s budget of up to £2 million. It is overspending on waste services (£1.5m), care for the elderly (£1.5m), taxi services for special needs youngsters (£400,000) and concessionary bus fares … Continue reading
Home care watch
Having less-than-adroitly reneged on one set of ridiculous and uncosted election promises – around waste collection – through the use of a so-called citizen’s jury, a process handily managed by a Labour-friendly organisation in exchange for a fat fee, Helen … Continue reading
Competition time! Update
Thank you to BristleKRS and Shawn for having a crack at the recycling press release competition. Although I’m sorry to have to inform you that unfortunately it wasn’t a real competition at all. It was in fact a rhetorical device … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Global warming, Labour Party, Local elections 2007, Local government
Tagged Citizen's jury
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The Blogger is away…
… Until Sunday. Here’s something to ruminate on: Vote for home care get well-paid Public Arts Officers! I Write regarding the article on home care campaigners. Well over 150,000 additional hours of extra home care are desperately required in Bristol. … Continue reading
Rewriting history: Labour home care policy unveiled (part three)
First we had Helen Holland announcing her new “transparent” city council management culture. Then we had Peter Hammond announcing his secret uncosted non-plan for home care. Now Bristol Labour’s finance – ahem – expert, John Bees is getting in on … Continue reading
Spot the commitment: Labour home care policy unveiled (part two)
So where’s Labour’s commitment to “in-house” home care gone then? Bristol Labour Party’s cheerleaders at The Evening Cancer and the T&G might want to celebrate a popular victory for the people but Peter Hammond’s recent outbursts in The Cancer on … Continue reading
Labour home care policy unveiled (part one)
The first signs of the chaos about to be unleashed by new social services boss Peter Hammond emerged this week after his plan to reconstitute the ‘Adult Social Care Select Committee’ was hastily cancelled via the pages of The Evening … Continue reading