Category Archives: Local government

Competition time! Update

Posted on September 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Thank you to BristleKRS and Shawn for having a crack at the recycling press release competition. Although I’m sorry to have to inform you that unfortunately it wasn’t a real competition at all. It was in fact a rhetorical device … Continue reading →

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Bearded Labour: the case for the prosecution . . .

Posted on September 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger is being accused of beardism in relation to claims regarding the Bristol Labour Party. Here is the case for the prosecution: 1. George Micklewright Former LABOUR leader Bristol City Council 1997 – 2002. Created £350m budget deficit. Most … Continue reading →

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Three degrees of bearded Labour

Posted on September 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The good news is that Labour education exec Derek Pickup has taken to the local radio airwaves to try to fend off his growing reputation for utter uselessness. The bad news is the coward chose to offer up his excuses … Continue reading →

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Competition time! Here's a clue . . .

Posted on September 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Not much joy with the comp yet so here’s a clue. The key phrase in the convoluted spin is: waste chargeable (The Blogger is expecting to take delivery this evening of a draft copy of the citizen’s jury report. Any … Continue reading →

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Competition time!

Posted on September 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Big prizes to be won: This is a small section of the council’s recent press release about the recommendations of the recent citizen’s jury on recycling. All you have to do is tell us what you think it it means. … Continue reading →

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The not so young Adonis makes an appearance

Posted on September 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Entirely coincidentally – at the same time as The Blogger was publishing ‘The Masterplanners’, querying Bristol Education Department’s long term plans for secondary education in the city – who should roll into town on Friday? Only Lord Adonis himself, the … Continue reading →

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EXCLUSIVE?

Posted on September 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s a story from the front page of today’s Cancer – “The campaigning newspaper of the year” – marked in large red letters as an EXCLUSIVE: The next chief executive of Bristol City Council will be paid about £180,000 a … Continue reading →

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Redland Green as expensive as Clifton College shocker!!!

Posted on September 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Evening Cancer yesterday reported Redland estate agents’ claims that house prices in the catchment area of Redland Green School have risen by up to 15%. This means a house in the catchment area once costing £500,000 would now cost … Continue reading →

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The masterplanners

Posted on September 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to Education boss, Heather Tomlinson, and her idiot boss, Pigfucker Gurney, the city is now spending around £2m a year on the strategic management of its schools and education. The result? Utter confusion. The latest announcement from The Cancer … Continue reading →

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The Waste-of-space Land

Posted on September 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A modernist poem by T B Blogger SEPTEMBER is the cruellest month, forcing Resignations out of hopeless bureaucrats, mixing Incompetence and wealth, stirring Angry cries with crude anger. Winter kept us hoping, covering The city in wishful thinking, feeding Us … Continue reading →

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