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

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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

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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

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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

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EXCLUSIVE: Caplan ousted in night of the long knives at Council House

Ding dong the witch is dead! But will he be unable to confirm or deny it? It seems Simon Caplan has been fired as head of Bristol City Council’s PR department in a mass clear out of officers that also … Continue reading

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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

Posted in Activism, Bristol, Bristol Indymedia, Conspiracy theories, Lib Dems, Local government, Middle East, Politics, The British Left | Tagged , | There are 10 comments

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)

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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

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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)

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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

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