Category Archives: Local government

From the archives: car parks not kids!

Posted on February 23, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Lest we forget … Here’s Labour leader Helen Holland’s “explicit endorsement in the media” for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’s car parking arrangements over the education of the city’s children. Bristol Evening Post: We’re bowled over by world class ambition Bristol … Continue reading →

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Howzat!! Bristol Labour Party caught taking orders from cricket club toffs and House of Lords lobbyists

Posted on February 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Gruesome truth about school places in North Bristol: what you won’t be reading in the Evening Cancer … by lilly manilly Whatever happened to that new school at Ashley Down? They spent enough money on the feasibility studies and … Continue reading →

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Chickens on the way home

Posted on February 20, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Just been leafing through some Bristol City Council cabinet minutes from 22 February 2007 and item 7 (pdf) catches the eye. The title is ‘Bishopston Ward Primary School’ and it’s a report all about the city council’s plan to build … Continue reading →

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It tolls for thee Kathy

Posted on February 19, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Strong rumours have been reverberating around the Blogger’s newswires today that the coroner will be opening an inquest tomorrow into the death of a former resident at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home last autumn (Blogger passim). The news might come as … Continue reading →

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Hopeless Hammond's merry-go-round

Posted on February 18, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I see that Labour’s education boss, the congenital idiot Peter Hammond – a Labour Party bearded equal opportunities bore who can’t get out of bed in the morning without first procuring an equalities impact assessment and consulting extensively with a … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: Committee time

Posted on February 16, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like the council’s planning department is pushing ahead hard with their controversial Chocolate Factory/Bristol and Bath Railway Path cycle house development (Blogger passim). In fact the relevant planning committee will meet on Wednesday about it. This comes despite … Continue reading →

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Partnership news

Posted on February 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

We know only too well that Bristol City Council’s pair of jargon obsessed New Labour leadership dronebots, Bum Disease Ormondroyd and Helen Holland, are very keen on this whole ‘partnership working’ malarkey. Martin Whitelock even reports on this blog that … Continue reading →

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MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE – Full Council Meeting, 10th Feb 2009

Posted on February 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

By Martin Whitelock The inevitable happened: – LibDems will wait until the June election in the likelihood of being voted in by the electorate as they are now the majority party in Bristol. – Conservatives got severely reprimanded by LibDem … Continue reading →

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Mimosa meltdown?

Posted on February 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Mimosa Healthcare Group who run Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home have now twice been invited by the Evening Cancer to comment on the major allegations of abuse going on in their home. Here’s the organisation’s formal responses so far: Mimosa … Continue reading →

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Kingsmead Lodge: the allegations begin …

Posted on February 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Bit of a hoo-ha down at the Counts Louse this afternoon, I’m told, over this public forum statement to the Health Scrutiny Commission about the Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home abuse scandal (Blogger passim). It seems that our dearest of dear … Continue reading →

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