Category Archives: Local government

Saturday night at the movies

Posted on March 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Two new films about the Railway Path here. Both, in their own way, are far more representative of the traditional left than unwashed hippy “Green Protestors” the Cancer would have you believe. One features Labour’s prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol … Continue reading →

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Friday night is bad gags night

Posted on March 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The back of a bus and the council’s new chief exec. A reader writes … (Made me laugh anyway) Sir, Have you noticed the resemblance between our new Bristol City Council Chief Executive, Jan Ormondroyd and the back end of … Continue reading →

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Practical money wasting from overpaid woman

Posted on March 13, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Looks like our city council’s brand new, top value £180k a year Chief Executive Jan Ormondroyd intends to hit the ground running when she starts work on Monday. The only trouble is that Jan gives the impression that she’s more … Continue reading →

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CONsultants latest

Posted on March 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The view of Bristol enjoyed by our new local CONsultants Another post on what seems to be this weeks’s emerging theme: the city council’s sell-out of Bristol to corporate CONsultants from London because the authority’s superannuated senior officer clique who … Continue reading →

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Fwd: what does our city look like?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

From BBC Bristol … The BBC is collecting pictures of Bristol that capture the soul of the city. Why? Because Bristol is getting a new Chief Executive, and she’s new to the city. Jan Ormondroyd will be given the “official … Continue reading →

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Contact-a-CONsultant

Posted on March 11, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

We now have the full address and contacts for Sharon Daly, the CONsultant from Steer Davies Gleave who may – or may not – be responsible for trying to put a BRT route on the Railway Path … Sharon will … Continue reading →

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Jesus wept, now we've got mystery consultants and moonlighting PRs

Posted on March 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Willard: Who’s in charge here? Soldier: In charge? I don’t know man. I thought you were in charge… Apocalpyse Now If you’re looking for any hard news about the city these days – as opposed to articles about what the … Continue reading →

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They shoot horses don't they?

Posted on March 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

More bad news for Mark Bradshaw and Bristol’s beleaguered Labour Party administration as another one of their councillors publicly speaks out against the BRT scheme. This time it’s St George East councillor Fabian Breckels who’s not only spoken out against … Continue reading →

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Brass necks of the week

Posted on March 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Following Saturday’s Guardian magazine ‘Big journeys around a small island’ feature, which listed the current incarnation of the Bristol and Bath Railway Path as one of the UK’s great journeys, comes a story in today’s Evening Cancer announcing that the … Continue reading →

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No selection, honest guv!

Posted on March 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Your child in their hands? This week’s news on secondary school applications and allocations brings few surprises. The city’s struggling local authority-run neighbourhood comprehensives – the ones everyone wants to work – continue to remain hopelessly undersubscribed as parents vote … Continue reading →

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