Category Archives: Politics

Bristol Labour bottle watch

Posted on October 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Have Labour bottled it by not calling an election? See what Labour’s Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy was saying on her blog in Bournemouth at their conference not even two weeks ago and decide for yourself: Even backbenchers blatantly priming … Continue reading →

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The life and times of Michael Cocks #3

Posted on October 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Like all chief whips, Michael Cocks was an inveterate cynic and fixer. In opposition in the early 1980s, Harry Cohen, then an idealistic young MP, had set his heart on speaking in the house even though the whips of all … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Post live in Blackpool

Posted on October 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This one was just too easy . . . (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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The life and times of Michael Cocks #2

Posted on October 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Cocks was known as a very keen but not especially skilled cricketer. He would even extend special whip’s dispensations to Labour MPs absent from votes if they were playing for the Lords and Commons team. He was once sought urgently … Continue reading →

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The life and times of Michael Cocks #1

Posted on October 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Cocks (centre) with a young Blair (right) and Nick Brown (left) Vowlsie mentions former Bristol South MP from 1970 – 1987, Michael Cocks in a comment below and on his blog, which reminded me of this rather excellent story about … Continue reading →

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Dumbwatch from the conference

Posted on September 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Still battle is joined for the title ‘Dumbest MP in the West’. Bristol South’s Labour MP Dawn Primarolo, now a government health minister, was at last week’s Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth again showing off the impeccable left wing principles … Continue reading →

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Three degrees of bearded Labour

Posted on September 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The good news is that Labour education exec Derek Pickup has taken to the local radio airwaves to try to fend off his growing reputation for utter uselessness. The bad news is the coward chose to offer up his excuses … Continue reading →

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Tory toenail worshippers refuse to publically back their slave trading boy

Posted on September 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

They can’t get down to All Saints on Corn Street quick enough on a wet and windy October morning to worship the remnants of the great man’s toenails. But it seems Bristol’s Edward Colston loving Tories aren’t quite so keen … Continue reading →

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Toffs at the top

Posted on September 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Former Bristol South East MP, aristo-socialist Tony Benn’s been hitting the headlines again. Firstly because his niece, Emily, has been selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the East Worthing and Shoreham constituency on the south coast despite not yet … Continue reading →

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It's Tory candidate's gone mad I tell you

Posted on September 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like The Blogger’s favourite Tory gal, Bristol North West parliamentary candidate Charlotte Leslie, has found herself a “straight banana issue”. This is the peculiarly Tory habit of “discovering” strange and bizarre pieces of legislation usually from Europe, but … Continue reading →

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