Category Archives: MPs

Back for good

I see my question to Andy Bennett on his police blog has got a reply: Q: Perhaps you could explain what your thinking is on the Dispersal Order on College Green imposed by Avon & Somerset Police? Particularly could you … Continue reading

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Bristol City Council: employee of the month

This toy that reveals where anonymous Wikipedia edits originate from is proving very handy indeed. Blogger reader Mapreader draws our attention to the city council employee who’s used their time exceptionally well to improve on the entries of a couple … Continue reading

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Dumb and dumber

At last The Blogger has found someone even more stupid than public school twit Dan Norris. The Labour MP for Wansdyke, who’s not sure how long he worked as a child protection worker, has been finally out-twitted by… His own … Continue reading

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Lib Dems' pretend friends

Super-geek Northavon MP Steve Webb has come up with a hilarious little jape to entertain the press for August. The man charged with writing the next Lib Dem election manifesto – a document that combines the realism of an In … Continue reading

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Full steam ahead with New Labour

Grunting Opus Dei cabinet weirdo, Ruth Kelly, continues to demonstrate why she may well be the most hopeless government minister in living memory. Another sideways move, this time to the transport portfolio after a gruellingly gormless spell at housing, finds … Continue reading

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More MoD balls

The MoD might have 1,000 highly paid experts working in media and communications but can they answer a simple parliamentary question between them? Mr. Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many former departmental staff are working … Continue reading

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Lambies set to save south Bristol schools

Top news reaches The Blogger from his friends with their fingers on the fading pulse of South Bristol’s schools. It seems the next business sponsor to be announced for Withywood’s brand new Merchants Academy, run by our old friends The … Continue reading

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Scrounger watch

What is it with the Labour Party and these London barristers they insist on foisting upon us? As fast as you get rid of one, another of the dodgy buggers pops up. Recently we’ve had the Cambridge educated barrister Sam … 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…"

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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Clunking fist opts for cultured prawn

Our man with the Blackberry in The Strangers Bar suggests Gordo will solve the Prawn Dimarolo conundrum by giving her a place in the cabinet at Culture, Media and Sport with the Olympics removed elsewhere, as, let’s face it, she … Continue reading

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