Category Archives: Local government

Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: business

Business: Wear a new suit and work in local government for 20 years spending huge quantities of other people’s money and you are an expert at business. See also marketing.

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Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: holistic approach

Holistic Approach: Exactly the same as the usual hopeless Bristol City Council approach except the officers involved wear jeans.

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Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: meeting

Meeting: Kind of ritualised, aimless mass non-exercise conducted by groups of city council officers on a twice daily basis in order that they can have a cup of tea and use up some time either side of lunch. See also … Continue reading

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BANKSY BALLS: Gagged!

Was Friday’s synchronised pant wetting from Bristol City Council and the Evening Cancer over the Banksy exhibition quite what it seemed? The Blogger’s hyperbole-o-meter went through the roof when the Cancer gushed, “The world’s most famous living artist is coming … Continue reading

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Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: the great and good

The great and good: Those invited to the first night of the Banksy exhibtion – if you weren’t invited you weren’t great and thus you can’t be any good. To be good you must have money or a degree in … Continue reading

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Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: Councillors

Councillors: A form of decorative finishing unique to Bristol’s Council House. See also Politicians.

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The Blogger’s Dictionary of Bristol Political Terms

by A Reader “Bradshawing” Basic, simplistic and ineffective political spin in which you attempt to blame the opposition for the consequences of your own policies through endless repetition. As in: “the Labour leadership are Bradshawing the Tories over public sector … Continue reading

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Quote of the week: BANKSY BALLS special

Cancer editor Mike Norton says in today’s paper: I was dragged around [Bristol] museum more times than I care to remember. The building and its artifacts are now part of my psyche. My dad loved the place. This explains a … Continue reading

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The Blogger's Dictionary of Bristol Political Terms

by A Reader “The Popham Method” A cunning encoding system designed to convert plain text into undecipherable gobbledegook. Sir Winston Churchill is quoted as saying "Bletchley Park did OK, but Enigma was child-plays really. If the Nazi's had used The … Continue reading

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It's Red Trousers wot won it!

Confirmation – as if we really needed it – that Red Trousered architect, George Ferguson, is an utterly deluded egomaniac and public school twit of the very highest order. Wondering who was the – ahem – architect of the Lib … Continue reading

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