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Category Archives: Local government
Public money: private abuse
You may have read in the Evening Cancer on Friday that police are investigating allegations of abuse at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home in Shire. This private residential care home, specialising in dementia, is run by a Nottingham-based company, Mimosa Healthcare … Continue reading
Is the council about to dump our recycling abroad?
Fascinating comment in the minutes of the city council’s Resources Scrutiny Commission of 15 January. Councillors querying officers about what would happen to household recycling waste that could not be sold, as seems increasingly likely, were told: recycled material that … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Environment, Green Capital, Local government, Politics, Recycling
Tagged Resources Scrutiny Commission, SITA
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20 MPH zones don't work!
The Green end of the Bristol blogosphere’s been getting rather excited about 20mph zones for the majority of residential streets in Bristol. Not everyone’s convinced … A guest post by 2nd Anonymous 20 MPH zones haven’t made any difference for … Continue reading
She were useless
Have a look at the press release eventually published by Bristol City Council announcing the departure of Education boss, Heather Tomlinson. She says: “Special thanks is (sic) also due to all the parents, grandparents, carers and families in Bristol, who … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Education, Local government, Politics
Tagged Heather Tomlinson
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ZIONIST! watch
An occasional series highlighting the ludicrous uses of the term ZIONIST! locally. <spooky music>The tentacles of the global Jewish Zionist conspiracy stretch further than you ever thought comrades. The Jewish Zionist menace is not only serving low fat lattes behind … Continue reading
It's The Spongers! (New vertical edition)
(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)
Posted in Bristol, Evelyn Post, Labour Party, Local government, Politics
Tagged Jan Ormondroyd, Jon House, The Spongers
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Carole Caplan gets angry as Heather Tomlinson exit is confirmed … by Heather Tomlinson!
By Our Correspondent If last week you heard what sounded like the distant rumble of thunder then it was probably actually the sound of Carole Caplan storming around his Council House PR hidey-hole having had his plan to hold ‘the … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Education, Local government, Politics
Tagged Heather Tomlinson, Simon Caplan
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New for the New Year … Meet The Spongers!
The Spongers will be a new and irregular feature on The Bristol Blogger for 2009. (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)
Posted in Bristol, Evelyn Post, Local government, Middle class wankers, Politics, Privatisation
Tagged Jan Ormondroyd, John House, The Spongers
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City Council budget balls: go figure
The ruling Labour group has unveiled what it calls a prudent budget for hard times … but Council leader Helen Holland says there will be no cuts in frontline services Bristol Evening Post, 9 December 2009 That makes things pretty … Continue reading