Category Archives: Politics

If she goes there will be trouble . . .

Posted on October 25, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Last week’s announcement that the city’s secondary schools remain firmly rooted near the bottom of national league tables – no matter how they try to spin it – elicited the following responses from readers of The Cancer: 2005 Ms Tomlinson: … Continue reading →

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Home care watch

Posted on October 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Having less-than-adroitly reneged on one set of ridiculous and uncosted election promises – around waste collection – through the use of a so-called citizen’s jury, a process handily managed by a Labour-friendly organisation in exchange for a fat fee, Helen … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Home Care, Labour Party, Local elections 2007, Local government, Politics, Social Care, Trade Unionism | Tagged , , , | There are 6 comments

Hello mum!

Posted on October 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger’s inexorable rise continues with our first mention in the council chamber… We will, of course, not rest until we have been condemned in the house! They were actually quite an interesting set of questions from Hopkins, who managed … Continue reading →

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Zzzzzzzzz watch

Posted on October 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Lib Dem leadership frontrunner Chris Huhne has declared and gone and got himself a promotional website – chris2win – already! These web designers don’t half work quick these days don’t they? No word as yet on whether Bristol West’s Stephen … Continue reading →

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BB Roadwatch: "a touch of class"

Posted on October 15, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As promised for Blog Action Day . . . Loudmouth Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary, that privately educated and over-privileged man of the people, has had a crack at campaigners fighting the plans to expand Bristol Airport in The Cancer. “They … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Developments, Environment, Global warming, Hartcliffe, Politics, Whitchurch Park Ward | Tagged , | There are 2 comments

Notting Hill's radical history

Posted on October 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s been light posting this weekend as The Blogger has been laying out Tom Vague’s excellent Bash the Rich Radical History Tour of Notting Hill pamphlet. It’s a kind of riotous, left wing, pop cultural, psychogeographic ramble through the streets … Continue reading →

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The strange case of the Brown-nosing Bristol MPs and the Stalinist sex pest

Posted on October 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Online Celtic fanzine ETims provides a reminder of the role two Bristol MPs – one current, one former – played in preventing former-Stalinist bully boy John Reid from running for the leadership of the Labour Party as the keeper of … Continue reading →

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Housing: Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted on October 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Compare and contrast: Bristol Evening Cancer Friday 5 October 2007 “I’ve got a friend who has three children living in a one-bedroom council flat. She’s been waiting for a new property for months but can only watch as more Somali’s … Continue reading →

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Nobel Peace Prize for Burma's monks!

Posted on October 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This is a bit of a rush . . .  The Nobel Committee decides on the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this coming week. If you think the prize should go to the Burmese Buddhist monastic order (sangha) there’s … Continue reading →

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The life and times of Michael Cocks #4

Posted on October 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Keren Suchecki comments: In the early 80s Michael Cocks used to be in the Hartcliffe Labour club every Sunday lunchtime (as was I), where people would queue to speak to him about their problems. I don’t know how successful he … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Hartcliffe, Labour Party, MPs, Politics, Southville, The British Left | Tagged , , | There are 7 comments