Category Archives: MPs

McCarthy shockers!!

Posted on March 18, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Couple of interesting items on Bristol East Labour MP Kerry McCarthy’s blog. Firstly, to give you a further idea of the chaotic, leaderless, anti-democratic shambles which is the BRT plan for the Railway Path we get this from Kerry: I … Continue reading →

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Friday night is bad gags night

Posted on March 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The back of a bus and the council’s new chief exec. A reader writes … (Made me laugh anyway) Sir, Have you noticed the resemblance between our new Bristol City Council Chief Executive, Jan Ormondroyd and the back end of … Continue reading →

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Swivel-eyed liberal loonwatch

Posted on March 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Fruitcake A grudging hat-tip to James Barlow for this story, although I don’t see why we should when it’s obvious he’s just signed up to the same ‘They Work for You’ alert as we are. Anyway, very strange outburst from … Continue reading →

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It's official! Bus route is "quite loopy"

Posted on March 3, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrUAhel8aDg] Bristol West MP Stephen Williams has slammed the plan to turn the Bristol and Bath Railway Path into a guided bus route as “daft” and “quite loopy”. Williams visited the path, which is now in his constituency, during the … Continue reading →

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Robotics news

Posted on February 21, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Looks like New Labour’s TOP SECRET Robotics Division have been working overtime in their TOP SECRET lab deep in the bowels of the Houses of Parliament. And we can report that the K3RR4 model that’s been so badly malfunctioning over … Continue reading →

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The corporate takeover of the railway path

Posted on February 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s some sterling research on the role of First Group and the BRT scheme over on Bristol Indymedia by Cyclopath. They point out the guided bus used in the sketch for the proposed BRT route on Bristol and Bath Railway … Continue reading →

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A new trough for a new day

Posted on February 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like cash-strapped Stephen Williams MP has come up with a new and imaginative way to squander taxpayers money. How about paying to publish – in the local glossie for the yoof, Venue – a sartorially challenged picture of … Continue reading →

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Snout watch (featuring trough of the week)

Posted on February 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to ‘Poor Dear’ on the dazzlingly revamped Bristol Indymedia for this one. With spectacularly bad timing, Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams has used his weekly web-based ‘Westminster Yawnfest’ (surely diary? ed.) to complain about his pay. You see, the … Continue reading →

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The life and times of Michael Cocks #4

Posted on January 6, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Former Bristol South MP Michael Cocks, even in the twilight of his long parliamentary career, still manages a small walk-on part in high Tory journalist Peter Oborne’s surprisingly impressive attack on contemporary parliamentary politics, The Triumph of the Political Class. … Continue reading →

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Counting the cost of Brown's Britain

Posted on January 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

1.4m – number of children living in poverty despite having a working parent in 1997 1.4m – number of children living in poverty despite having a working parent in 2007 (Source: Institute for Public Policy Research [pdf]) This would seem … Continue reading →

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