Category Archives: Shirehampton

STOP PRESS: Mimosa meltdown!!!!

Posted on December 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Strong rumours reverberating on the Blogger’s newswires say that the manager and long-term secretary at Mimosa Healthcare’s ailing Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home in Shire walked out earlier today this month. (This is what happens when you spend the afternoon at … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol North west, Health, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Shirehampton, Social Care | Tagged , , , | There are 5 comments

Fancy that! "I will be out of the office at meetings on Monday 7 December 09"

Posted on December 7, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh look! The putative head of our city’s “atrocious” adult care services – “Why don’t you fucking go home Cathy?” Morgan – is not contactable today because she’s “at meetings”. Ho! Ho! Ho! When do we get her resignation then?

Posted in Bedminster, Bristol, Health, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Shirehampton, Social Care, Southmead | Tagged , , , , , , | There are 2 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 →

Posted in Bristol, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Shirehampton, Social Care, Southmead | Tagged , , , , , , | There are no comments yet

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 →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Shirehampton, Social Care | Tagged , , | There are 2 comments

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 →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol North west, Health, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Shirehampton, Social Care | Tagged , , | There are 10 comments

Tesco Ashton Gate: the land is ours!

Posted on September 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Looks like the cover’s blown on the Lib Dems’ claim that the Bristol City stadium and Ashton Gate Tesco developments are purely planning matters to be dealt with by their hand-picked team … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashton Vale, Bristol, Bristol South, Developments, Environment, Housing, Lib Dems, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Planning, Politics, Shirehampton, Southville, World Cup 2018 | Tagged , , , , , , | There are 8 comments

Terry's cooked

Posted on March 5, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The fact that local Labour frontbencher Terry Cook has announced his resignation seems to be passing without comment. He says, “[I’m] retiring to spend more time with my business”. Hmmm.

Posted in Avonmouth, Blogging, Bristol, Bristol North west, Elections, Labour Party, Lawrence Weston, Local government, Politics, Shirehampton | Tagged | There are 58 comments