Category Archives: Politics

The art of blogging: just keep banging your head against that brick wall …

Posted on December 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

… Until the right people start listening: Job done!

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"Institutional abuse" identified in Bristol's care homes

Posted on December 3, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Today’s report from the Care Quality Commission (CQS) in to Bristol’s adult care services is mainy a text book example of what happens when the dead hand of bureaucracy meets impenetrable New Labour social jargon. So we’ve got an “Annual … Continue reading →

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LEAKED DOCUMENT: city council leadership – we’ve done over the vulnerable, now for the wage slaves

Posted on December 1, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

You have to laugh … Or you’d probably cry. The city council’s ridiculous “strategic leadership team“, having spent the last 18 months feather-bedding themselves with pay rises of 20% plus; spending £120k on their own offices and “break-out spaces” and … Continue reading →

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REVEALED: £2m cuts for the city's most vulnerable

Posted on November 30, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

While our idiot councillors and idiot senior council officers write out a blank cheque to an international Swiss gangster operation for something between £17m and £40m – depending on who you want to believe – to host four football matches … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Budget, Economy, Health, Home Care, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Social Care, World Cup 2018 | Tagged , | There are 27 comments

From the comments …

Posted on November 29, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

by Steven Norman November 28, 2009 at 5:26 pm I believe that Bristol City Council should issue court proceedings for recovery of this outstanding money. At this moment in time it is public money that has been paid to one … Continue reading →

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"They will not get a brass farthing"

Posted on November 28, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Steve Norman “come on and take me to court then” story appears in today’s Evening Cancer. A couple of passages are worth further analysis: Police, social services and the watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CSCI) investigated earlier this year … Continue reading →

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McNamara: "I know nothing"

Posted on November 26, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I’ve come across some self-serving, backsliding, cowardly tosh from senior officers at Bristol City Council in my time but Stephen McNamara’s response to Steve Norman’s recent invitation to take him to court takes the biscuit: “I do not know anything … Continue reading →

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McNamara: "Come on if yer ‘ard enough"

Posted on November 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s getting just like the old days. Who can forget that fine June of 2005 when our city’s esteemed wig-wearer -in-Chief, Stephen McNamara decided to take action after the Campaign to Save Daycare in Bristol paraded 10ft-high placards through the … Continue reading →

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McNamara's Mimosa madness

Posted on November 23, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The bewigged anti-human fool that passes for a legal expert down at the Counts Louse, Stephen McNamara, excels himself again. Now the man that took council behaviour to a new low in 2005 when he personally patrolled the entrance to … Continue reading →

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World Cup: the state of our democracy watch

Posted on November 22, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

How cities bidding to host the 2018 World Cup have used the local democratic process: Newcastle Report to Cabinet on 15 July along with publication of 139-page Outline Bid SubmissionUpdate Report to Cabinet on 11 November Final Decision to be … Continue reading →

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