Category Archives: Local government

Museum of Bristol update

Posted on November 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Predictably the Labour Cabinet nodded through on Thursday the £25m Museum of Bristol project on the site of the Industrial Museum. And just in case any of our elected representatives – not in the cabinet – might have wanted to … Continue reading →

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The Big Arse: greenwash photo-op watch

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Pictured is an embarrassing clown alongside someone dressed up as Robin Hood. The question that needs to printed on that bit of paper is ‘can Bristol bear this idiot in charge any longer?’ What passes for a leader in this … Continue reading →

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Hammond's homecare plans unravel

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Peter Hammond and the Labour Party’s promise at the last local election was to keep the city’s home care service “in-house”. We might have understood from this there would be no more privatisation of Bristol city council’s home care service … Continue reading →

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The Blogger get's it wrong, wrong, wrong

Posted on November 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Not an admission we have to make around here that often you’ll agree and, yes, it’s hard to countenance but The Blogger’s got it wrong. On Friday we said: In another piece of transport news, that no doubt will be … Continue reading →

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Will our new museum be Bristol's very own chamber of financial horrors?

Posted on November 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Blimey. It looks like Bristol’s Tories have finally woken up and decided to start acting like an opposition after six months of pointless fawning over Labour’s Bees-Holland-Hammond council leadership triumvirate of proven incompetents. They even appear to have bothered to … Continue reading →

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Transport round-up

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Minister of State for being an unpalatable shade of orange, Peter Vain, was in town yesterday making one of his stupid, posh foghorn-voiced announcements. And what tremendous news he brings! Yet another Labour government subsidy, no less, for Bristol’s most … Continue reading →

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Educashion today

Posted on November 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

On one of the more obscure outposts of the council’s website you can find details about something called ‘Buggybuddies’, publicly funded keep fit sessions for yummy mummies. If you really feel the need to look it up yourself it can … Continue reading →

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Direktive from ze Heatherbunker

Posted on November 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A reader directs The Blogger to this term’s edition of Herr Direktor Tomlinson’s glossy newsletter(PDF) for school governors as we “may want to read the series of crap excuses she’s concocted”! The reader continues: No great major spelling mistakes immediately … Continue reading →

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Our trough: their snouts

Posted on November 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Hurrah! As part of the national Crimestoppers Conference taking place in Bristol last week on the theme of ‘Engaging Hard-To-Reach Communities’, West Country Crimestoppers held a sumptuous black tie reception on board the SS Great Britain “to thank local and … Continue reading →

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Day 4 of my experiment

Posted on November 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Time for an update on The Blogger’s great e-democracy experiment to get rid of Heather Tomlinson. On Friday The Blogger fired off an email to the council’s e-democracy department requesting some simple information on their confidentiality arrangements with regards to … Continue reading →

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