Category Archives: Local government

Something for the weekend no. 1: a gun to your head …

Posted on October 16, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I’m sure when this all started any direct link between Tesco and the new stadium was being vigorously denied and rebutted. Now they’re advertising the fact on billboards:

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Are our politicians in danger of having to express a view in the near future?

Posted on October 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

This city’s politicians’ habit of speaking in bland, meaningless platitudes on any and every subject while the bureaucrats they handsomely pay are left with a free hand to royally shaft us may be under threat judging by events today. First … Continue reading →

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Netiquette: take care before pressing that 'Send' button …

Posted on October 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Or your private email message may end up all over the internet: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gagging_orders_in_secret_family_177#incoming-49653 Ho! Ho! Ho!

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Senior officer moment

Posted on October 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

UNISON have been asking some useful questions about senior officers’ fat cat six-figure salaries down at the Counts Louse. Possibly overlooked in the frenzy over Tesco at Ashton Gate and Steve Lansdown’s admission that his £60m stadium, as predicted, is … Continue reading →

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Hot fuzz?

Posted on October 12, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A reader writes: Residents in the Ashley Down/St Andrews/Montpelier area of Bristol have just received this hilarious letter (see below). The following comments seem relevant: a) This letter was clearly not just sent to my road and I suspect the … Continue reading →

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Apology: Bob Wall

Posted on October 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Due to an unfortunate mix-up on Friday, this blog accidentally published a photograph of Canadian ice hockey legend Bob Wall in an article about ‘Mr Bristol’, the recently deceased former Bristol Tory Group leader, Sir Bob Wall. We would obviously … Continue reading →

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Correction: Bob Wall

Posted on October 9, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It appears that yesterday this blog, due to the fact that it’s run – in common with the rest of the city’s media – by total fucking morons, may have inadvertently run a photo of martial arts expert and Hollywood … Continue reading →

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Off the Wall

Posted on October 8, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Evening Cancer’s innovative experiment to become the country’s leading staffless newspaper continues apace … The death this week of the Tory’s ‘father of the city’ – bluff old cove and enthusiastic Bristolian reader Bob Wall – found editor Norton’s … Continue reading →

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Ring-a-ring-a-roadsies

Posted on October 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Today’s Cancer provided an uncritical platform for editor Mike Norton’s wealthy mates to make their latest announcement about what we are being asked to call the ‘South Bristol Link’. For starters, this is quite possibly the world’s most pathetically inept … Continue reading →

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Did you lie Councillor? Or are you merely an incompetent?

Posted on September 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The webcast for the full council meeting of 15 September is now available from the Bristol City Council website here. Using the index you can go to section 4.c Questions from the public where you will find the following: PQ3 … Continue reading →

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