Category Archives: Politics

Hammond's homecare plans unravel

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Peter Hammond and the Labour Party’s promise at the last local election was to keep the city’s home care service “in-house”. We might have understood from this there would be no more privatisation of Bristol city council’s home care service … Continue reading →

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Will our new museum be Bristol's very own chamber of financial horrors?

Posted on November 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Blimey. It looks like Bristol’s Tories have finally woken up and decided to start acting like an opposition after six months of pointless fawning over Labour’s Bees-Holland-Hammond council leadership triumvirate of proven incompetents. They even appear to have bothered to … Continue reading →

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Full of Eastern promise?

Posted on November 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol East MPs old and new in the news this week. The former MP until 2005, Jean Corston, the New labour ultra-Blairite ultra-loyalist whose ruthless focus on her Westminster career rather than her constituents saw her rise to be Chair … Continue reading →

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Who'd have ever guessed it?

Posted on November 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol City Council is looking for urgent savings in this year’s budget of up to £2 million. It is overspending on waste services (£1.5m), care for the elderly (£1.5m), taxi services for special needs youngsters (£400,000) and concessionary bus fares … Continue reading →

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Bristol education: even the kids have given up hope

Posted on October 31, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The number of pupils who played truant from Bristol secondary schools last year was almost double the national average. And it has been claimed that 2006-07 could go down as the worst ever school year on record for secondaries in … Continue reading →

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Bristol Labour: corruption one of "our problems" admits former councillor

Posted on October 31, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A former Bristol City Labour Councillor who was recently shortlisted as a potential candidate for Doug Naysmith’s Bristol North West seat has responded to allegations of corruption in Bristol Labour Party by agreeing “we have our problems”. Kelvin Blake the … Continue reading →

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Lest we forget

Posted on October 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

For old time’s sake here’s the cover of Education Director Heather Tomlinson’s original glossy leaflet – On Course for Success: creating an education service to be proud of! – published three years ago. That rogue exclamation mark in the title … Continue reading →

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Prostitution in Eastville pt. 567

Posted on October 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As exercises in futility go, Bristol East Labour MP Kerry McCarthy’s backing of New Labour’s latest Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – only the 55th such bill they’ve introduced! – as a solution to the street prostitution problem in Eastville … Continue reading →

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The strange and confusing world of NHS finance

Posted on October 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

North Bristol NHS Trust was issued a loan for £52m by the then Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt, on 22 March 2007. Anyone know why?

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MP Dan's vanity publishing shocker!!!

Posted on October 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol Labour Party’s overpromoted public schoolboy twit-in-chief, Wansdyke MP Dan Norris has been exposed as one of the four biggest spenders in parliament after claiming expenses of £172,733 for the year March 2006 – March 2007. This compares to the … Continue reading →

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