The Bristol Blogger with their resident cartoonist Evelyn Post today present a special limited edition post to celebrate the first apartments going on sale off-plan at Urban Splash’s Lake Shore development in Hartcliffe (Blogger Passim).
(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)
The Blogger is being accused of beardism in relation to claims regarding the Bristol Labour Party. Here is the case for the prosecution:
1. George Micklewright
Former LABOUR leader Bristol City Council 1997 – 2002. Created £350m budget deficit. Most shameless act: closing Merrywood School after promising it would never happen. Strangely Bearded.
2. Peter Hammond
Former LABOUR leader Bristol City Council 2004 – 2005. Created £20m deficit in social services, closed daycare services. Most shameless act: throwing a sickie to avoid presenting his own dodgy budget. Strangely Bearded.
3. Derek Pickup
LABOUR Executive Member for Education, Bristol City Council 2007. Creating more school places than children through a school rebuilding programme funded by long term debt (PFI). Most shameless act: rigging the presentation of GCSE results this summer by excluding english and maths results . Strangely Bearded.
The relationship between strange beards, Bristol Labour Party, disreputable behaviour and hopeless incompetence is clear for all to see. I rest my case m’lud.
On a daily basis, at a great many international and scholarly conferences all over the world, we can hear learned debates about human rights and emotional proclamations in their defense. So how is it possible that the international community remains incapable of responding effectively to dissuade Burma’s military rulers from escalating the force that they have begun to unleash in Rangoon and its Buddhist temples?
I see the rather fetching Juliette Binoche has joined the ranks of 9/11 conspiracy theorists. She told the Telegraph recently:
‘I went to see the Iranian ambassador at the time and he said of course it’s true. Things that I thought were hidden and private… they were very open about it.’
So she means the CIA and other agencies knew 9/11 was going to happen?
‘Of course.’
Blimey. Who’d have thunked it?
This got me wondering if any other incredibly attractive French actresses believe that 9/11 was an inside job. Here’s a picture of Deneuve in her pomp anyway just in case she decides it was.
Urban Splash have ratcheted up the marketing campaign for their Lake Shore development in Hartcliffe a notch.
The website for the new development went live this week and in an intriguing twist they now seem to be promoting Hartcliffe as a top golfing destination!
What are they proposing? That the fucking yuppies tee off down Hartcliffe Way?
The website has also got a rather neat draw-your-own Lake Shore poster feature or ‘Pop Art Machine’ that comrade Evelyn may put to good use (see above).
(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)
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 to a bunch of school kids on BCFM, Bristol’s new(ish) community radio station that has about three listeners.
More good news, though, is that two of those three listeners bothered to write to the Evening Cancer to tell the rest of us what the weirdly bearded one said.
And it seems he claimed to have three degrees. Really Derek which ones? Are we talking 1973’s minor Phillie classic The Three Degrees? Or do you have 1975’s The Three Degrees International? Both of course featuring the classic line-up of Ferguson, Pinkney, Holi–
I beg your pardon?
Oh my aching sides . . ! Can it really be . . ? Pickup attempting intellectual gravitas? (In front of children at least)
He means he’s got three university degrees! What better example of the collapse in educational standards could we find than the fact that a man apparently with no clue about anything is the proud owner of no less than three supposedly high quality further education qualifications.
What are these qualifications for then Derek? An honours degree in Adventure Playground Development Studies from the University of Milton Keynes? Maybe a Voscur-sponsored MBa specialising in Managing Voluntary Organisations Without Bothering to Look at the Balance Sheet? And what’s the doctoral thesis? Ridiculous bearded people in the Bristol Labour Party 1997 – 2007 (a study incorporating myself, Peter Hammond and George Micklewright)?
Next they’ll be telling us that the City Academy’s head honcho and spinner-in-chief is now suddenly known as Dr Ray Priest!
Not much joy with the comp yet so here’s a clue. The key phrase in the convoluted spin is:
waste chargeable
(The Blogger is expecting to take delivery this evening of a draft copy of the citizen’s jury report. Any enterprising journalist – or anyone else for that matter – who’s interested in having a closer look at this “independent” process can have a copy for the cost of the photocopying. Just get in touch – email bristol_citizensATyahoo.co.uk)
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 to get down to the Commonwealth Museum this Friday and explain to the city’s black community what they think is so great about this slave trading, profiteering scumbag.
For it seems that a proposed debate supposed to be taking place at the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum on Friday to consider whether Edward Colston should be considered a hero for his philanthropy or a villain because of his involvement in the slave trade may have to be cancelled because nobody is prepared to publically defend Colston’s reputation in front of a largely black audience.
Certainly Bristol Tory boss Bunter Eddy doesn’t want to do it despite being happy to blather down the telephone to the Evening Cancer from the safety of mummy’s Headley Park semi that: “Colston was a great Bristolian who made an immense and continuing contribution to our city and we should not “airbrush” him out of history.”
Neither does big Colston fan Business West boss John Savage want to do it. The deluded Tory loon – who greets visitors to Business West’s HQ at Leigh Court Mansion by booming “welcome to my home”at them – and influential Merchant Venturer with well-known ambitions to be the city’s first elected mayor has also been invited to speak but bravely hasn’t bothered responding at all.
Presumably ignorant toff Dennis Burn, the Master of The Society of Merchant Venturers, who appeared in a televised debate on Bristol’s role in the slave trade back in March is barred from any further public appearances after making a prize ass of himself by telling black people in the audience they were welcome to come begging to his multi-million pound organisation for cash for youth projects if they wanted.
That just leaves Nick Hood. He’s at a loose end these days isn’t he? Perhaps he could do it? He could also tell us what he’s done with all that cash he made through his lucrative directorships of Enron subsidaries couldn’t he?
(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)
Big prizes to be won:
This is a small section of the council’s recent press release about the recommendations of the recent citizen’s jury on recycling. All you have to do is tell us what you think it it means. . .
Charging – to keep fortnightly collections; make additional waste chargeable sacks available through supermarkets and work on increasing the support for reusing materials.
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 being 18.
This makes her the youngest person ever selected as a parliamentary candidate after the minimum age was reduced to 18 from 21 last year. She even spoke at the Labour Party conference yesterday and if she wins the seat she will be the fifth generation of the toff family to have sat in Parliament.
Which is a rather nice example of how hereditary power is still able to flourish in our so-called meritocracy mainly thanks to the full support of a party of gormless middle-class careerists with a skin deep commitment to socialism.
The insufferable egoist Tony meanwhile has published the latest volume of his tedious, self-serving diaries covering the outbreak of the Iraq war. Tony of course visited Iraq to meet senior members of its administration in the lead up to the war.
And his diary entry demonstrates perfectly why this so-called “national treasure” is in fact a fuckwitted toff of the highest order when he in all seriousness describes Tariq Aziz, who he visits, as “a nice guy”.
Earlier in an entry for 6 June 1996 Benn writes:
Had a long talk to the Chinese First Secretary at the embassy – a very charming man called Liao Dong – and said how much I admired Mao Tse Tung or Zedong, the greatest man of the twentieth century.
Sorry could you come again with that one please Tony? Are you saying that a totalitarian, a dictator and the killer of millions was the greatest man of the twentieth century?
Benn’s calls his latest volume of diaries Free at Last.
