Category Archives: Politics

Court circular #4

Posted on May 12, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to reader Overayard, we have some more news on the latest ludicrous private sector CONsultant to board the Counts Louse gravy train, Mark Fletcher. Fletcher is a senior partner at the fashionable (ie. expensive) PR and communications agency ‘Reputation’. … Continue reading →

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Court circular #3

Posted on May 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

More news drifts in about this copper from Sheffield who doesn’t know where Easton is that’s been put in charge of marketing at the city council on a salary of just £140k a year. A reader writes: Why does Bistol … Continue reading →

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Court circular #2

Posted on May 8, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Murky Depths writes … You may be interested to know that at a meeting I attended earlier this year the esteemed Mr House (Deputy Chief Exec) made a BIG show of the fact that he ‘doesn’t do email‘, saying that … Continue reading →

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Court circular #1

Posted on May 8, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

By Shitstirrer Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear! Less than a year into city council Chief Exec Jan Ormondroyd’s “strategic leadership” dream, with the purple regal carpet barely fitted and the bullet-proof glass not … Continue reading →

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RTPI

Posted on May 7, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like the city council’s planning officers are off doing whatever the hell they feel like again to help their private developer friends without going to the bother of consulting elected politicians. It says here that the Royal Town … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, CONsultants, Developments, Education, Housing, Local government, Planning, Politics, Transport | Tagged , , | There are 27 comments

Ormondroyd: the interview

Posted on May 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Shambolically useless interview with Chief Exec Bum Disease Ormondroyd in this week’s issue of Venue. Unfortunately I’ve left my copy at work so can’t post it in full until tomorrow but mainly the interview’s a study in what happens if … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Congestion charge, Education, Journalism, Local government, Media, Politics, Transport | Tagged , , , | There are 27 comments

Bank holiday Tesco slag off space filler

Posted on May 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

As news filters through that City Chairman Steve Lansdown may be about to generously give us a large Tescos retail shed in exchange for our greenbelt land at Ashton Vale to build his new football stadium on, it might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashton Vale, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol South, Conservatives, Developments, Environment, Merchant Venturers, Planning, Politics, Southville | Tagged , , , , | There are 4 comments

Cry Freedom, Cry Seven Stars!

Posted on May 1, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

At last! A proper plaque, courtesy of Bristol Radical History Group, to commemorate anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson, the mystery landlord “Thompson” and many ordinary Bristolian sailors – prepared to lift the lid on Merchant Venturer slaving scum – was unveiled … Continue reading →

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Bristol's grand censor-in-chief

Posted on April 29, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I see our old friend Steve Norman’s asking a question of  leader “Call me ma’m” Janke tomorrow at cabinet about Mimosa Healthcare and the morbidly dangerous levels of care they provide on her behalf to our city’s elderly people. I … Continue reading →

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Red alert! Planning gain games

Posted on April 28, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

More on the Bristol City Stadium saga … This weekend found the Cancer merrily spinning away for City chairman Steve Lansdowne with a generous little page 3 hagiography on his ascent up the Sunday Times Rich List while their ‘star’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Bedminster, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol South, Developments, Education, Labour Party, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Planning, Politics, Southville | Tagged , , , , , , , , | There are 69 comments