Category Archives: Local government

It tolls for thee Gurney…

Posted on July 4, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Fascinating revelations on Bristol Indymedia about the city council’s chief exec Nick Gurney (the bloke pictured above who looks like he might fuck pigs in his spare time) who’s currently supposed to be organising the effort to make Bristol the … Continue reading →

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"I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to be ill…"

Posted on June 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Gordo has made the Dim Prawn Minister of State for Health and second in command to Postman Posh, Alan Johnston. She’ll be working directly alongside that insufferably vile, perma-tanned grinning idiot Ben Bradshaw who should be shot. The Prawn has … Continue reading →

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Local trade unions' congress

Posted on June 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Senior Labour cabinet member John Bees, stalwart of the local T&G, is rumoured to be spending a lot of time in “home care discussions” with the city council’s GMB rep Rowena Hayward. This selfless partnership working on behalf of some … Continue reading →

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Arena: Private profit from public cash

Posted on June 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Today’s Arena press conference saw the SWRDA and the city council responding with large cash handouts courtesy of the tax payer as the private developers involved in the Bristol Arena “partnership” predictably start to turn the screw on them. The … Continue reading →

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Arena announcement imminent

Posted on June 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger learns there is a press conference first thing tomorrow on the future of the Arena project. Apparently only the city council and the SWRDA will be attending. No sign of the private partners SMG… More news as it … Continue reading →

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Hammond takes a decision…

Posted on June 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Who says Labour’s social services boss, Peter Hammond, is a useless dithering wimp incapable of taking decisions and going off sick at the first hint of pressure? Not any longer. Because The Blogger learns the tough guy has taken a … Continue reading →

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Class in the classroom

Posted on June 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Labour’s new education boss, Derek Pickup, has broken cover and given a keynote interview to The Evening Cancer’s so-called Education Correspondent Linda Tanner. Tanner is happy to play pat ball with Pickup, lobbing him daft brown-nosing questions to provide him … Continue reading →

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Blogasmic Bristol Labour

Posted on June 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Hold the front page. The Bristol Labour Party has entered the blogosphere. The Blogger has discovered that Avonmouth councillor Terry Cook has got himself a blog. Here’s what he says: “This is my blog about me and my experiences – … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Post: Lost and Found

Posted on June 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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Rewriting history: Labour home care policy unveiled (part three)

Posted on June 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

First we had Helen Holland announcing her new “transparent” city council management culture. Then we had Peter Hammond announcing his secret uncosted non-plan for home care. Now Bristol Labour’s finance – ahem – expert, John Bees is getting in on … Continue reading →

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