Category Archives: Local government

Car crash blog post of the week

Posted on November 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Take a bow Bristol’s only Green Councillor, Charlie Bolton. In an extraordinarily misjudged outburst on his blog, Charlie managed to put not only a large dent in his credibility and raise huge questions about his personal integrity, he’s also effortlessly … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: Fox goes hunting

Posted on November 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Over on Charlie Bolton’s blog you can currently find Lib Dem and Green councillors mincing around, mutually patting each other on the back and assuring the public what thoroughly decent chaps of the highest possible integrity they and their wealthy … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: The latest desperate cover-up attempt

Posted on November 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

News is coming in that at least one Bristol City Councillor has demanded an explanation and a legal view on David Bishop’s dodgy Railway Path land sale from the city solicitor Stephen McNamara. McNamara has replied by providing no opinion … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: local government policy and democracy: a post structuralist interpretive approach

Posted on November 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Time to return to the council’s latest response to Vowlsie’s complaint. Having had to cave in to the inevitable and admit the Railway Path land is covered by the Parks and Green Spaces Strategy as the Blogger pointed out over … Continue reading →

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***RED TROUSER GATE FLASH***

Posted on November 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol City Council – to use their own strangulated bureaucratise – are to take “the opportunity to fully address the issue of the actions of David Bishop,” the Blogger learns tonight. Although quite why they can’t just address the actions … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: whose land is it anyway?

Posted on November 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Among the many treasures to be found in the council’s FoI release on the Railway Path land sell-off are some emails that reveal the huge influence of Square Peg’s large corporate agents – such as solicitors Davies and Partners and … Continue reading →

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This sounds like good value

Posted on November 6, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Connecting Bristol and Vowlsie are reporting that Bristol has been chosen as the only city in the UK to be short-listed for the European Green Capital Award. Shit. If this place is the greenest city in Europe we really are … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: PR news

Posted on November 6, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The Evening Cancer might not be prepared to report on their columnist, George Ferguson’s role in dodgy public park land deals but they’re more than happy to give his poncey Tobacco Factory bar some free publicity. “George flies the flag … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: They don't know what they're doing pt. 1,356

Posted on November 5, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

You can’t, of course, have a full-blown political scandal without a ‘gate’ suffix and logo. Bristol Indymedia have gone for ‘Bishopgate’ but at the Blogger we’ve settled for ‘Red Trouser Gate’ and a rather fetching logo. Now on to the … Continue reading →

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All the news that's fit to print?

Posted on November 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

No sign yet of the Evening Cancer publishing anything about the David Bishop Greenbank land sale scandal. No doubt the fact that their Saturday columnist, Bristol’s most pompous man, George Ferguson is intimately involved in the scandal is entirely coincidental … Continue reading →

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