Category Archives: Toffs

Toffwatch south west

Posted on August 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I say chaps. Have you heard yet? Spiffing news what? Those jolly good fellows of the South West Regional Development Agency have only gone and got themselves a terrific new Chairman chappie don’t you know? Naturally such a character, responsible … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSERGATE: the column of crap

Posted on April 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Reading George Ferguson’s ‘By George’ column in today’s Cancer – alas not yet online – at least explains why he chose a career in concreting over public park land rather than comic writing. Southville’s great wit writes about Easter this … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the meritocracy

Posted on March 21, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Great Hall, Bristol Grammar School Bristol Grammar School – catchy strapline: “rich[ !!!], vibrant and a real community, BSG is full of possibility, large but never impersonal” – is currently trumpeting its latest result in getting 17 of its students … Continue reading →

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University challenged

Posted on February 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Great news just in! A recent parliamentary answer reveals that the city’s best known higher education college, the University of Bristol, continues to be one of the most ridiculously exclusive and elitist institutions in the country. Latest figures show that … Continue reading →

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Meet "the new one that you must call the master"

Posted on November 15, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Well, well, well. Who’s this slithering back up the greasy pole into the higher echelons of Bristol’s public life? Those fine and honourable fellows of our local creepy millionaires’ misogynist sect, the Society of Merchant Venturers, have only gone and … 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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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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Evelyn Post's Tory marathon shocker!!!

Posted on September 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Tory Bristol North West candidate Charlotte Leslie completes the Bristol half marathon on Sunday… Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name.

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Toff's looney index

Posted on September 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The latest salvo fired by this emerging toff/green alliance is today’s publication of the Tory’s Quality of Life Report, produced by billionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith and Thatcherite oddity John Gummer, fondly remembered by many for trying to force feed his … Continue reading →

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Banksy vs Snooty

Posted on September 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bad day at the office for Bristol radical and controversialist, Banksy I’m afraid. The latest sighting of the great man’s work is on the top floor of the Millbank tower. The Tory press assure us that the trendy office suite … Continue reading →

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