Category Archives: Local government

The new pain in the backside

Posted on December 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Christmas, it seems, has come early for Jan Ormondroyd. Although she might sound like something very painful up your backside that you should urgently consult a doctor about, she’s actually been appointed the city’s new Chief Executive on a bumper … Continue reading →

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Parking news

Posted on December 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Within just days of the Labour-run administration raising parking charges to ten pounds a day and threatening inner-city residents with a costly Controlled Parking Zone we are given a nice little insight into a Labour councillor’s personal ‘Christian’ approach to … Continue reading →

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Rotten Borough: welcome to the Labour launderette

Posted on December 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Did ya hear the one about the local political party that returns three MPs to Westminster and has run the city council for most of the last 30 years but doesn’t present any public accounts? You have now. It’s Bristol’s … Continue reading →

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Rotten borough: Questions and answers

Posted on December 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

An unincorporated association listed by the Electoral Commission as ‘The Bristol Labour Group’, The Council House, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TR has donated £10,000 in cash to the Bristol North West Constituency Labour Party. So what? Q. What’s an unincorporated … Continue reading →

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Rotten borough latest

Posted on December 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A friend of The Blogger’s with a good head for figures has produced a very handy spreadsheet listing every donation handed to the Labour Party by a local ‘Labour Group’ since records started in 2001. ‘Labour Groups’ are the ones … Continue reading →

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Labour funding: an interesting proximity of cash to candidacy

Posted on December 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Another day, another ‘Bristol Labour Group’ donation mystery . . . But first a quick recap: What we have is cash donations amounting to exactly £10k, made in two large tranches, from an unincorporated association – ‘the Bristol Labour Group’, … Continue reading →

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KRS guest post

Posted on December 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

 Bristle KRS

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Roger and them

Posted on December 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Gotcha! Yesterday we mentioned a city council officer – Roger Livingston – who works for ‘the Bristol Labour Group’ in an office at the Council House where tens of thousands of pounds worth of apparently anonymous donations to the Labour … Continue reading →

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Labour funding: Do we have two associations with one member working from the same office?

Posted on December 4, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It gets murkier and murkier with regards to whatever ‘the Bristol Labour Group’ is and their generous £10k cash donation to the Bristol North West Constituency Labour Party. It almost seems as if there’s two Bristol Labour Groups operating at … Continue reading →

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Cancer on the case (again)

Posted on December 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Another big shout out to Evening Cancer editor Mike Norton and his super smart newsroom boys. “PAY AS YOU THROW” thundered the front page of our ever so good local newspaper yesterday. “ A “pay-as-you-throw” scheme charging householders £2 per … Continue reading →

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