Tag Archives: Chocolate Factory

Bye by George?

Posted on November 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

What’s happened to By George, George Ferguson’s saturday column of self-regarding drivel in the Evening Cancer? It was there last week and this week it’s gone! Surely it can’t have anything to do with Councillor Ashley Fox tabling a series … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: Fox goes hunting

Posted on November 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Over on Charlie Bolton’s blog you can currently find Lib Dem and Green councillors mincing around, mutually patting each other on the back and assuring the public what thoroughly decent chaps of the highest possible integrity they and their wealthy … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: The latest desperate cover-up attempt

Posted on November 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

News is coming in that at least one Bristol City Councillor has demanded an explanation and a legal view on David Bishop’s dodgy Railway Path land sale from the city solicitor Stephen McNamara. McNamara has replied by providing no opinion … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: local government policy and democracy: a post structuralist interpretive approach

Posted on November 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Time to return to the council’s latest response to Vowlsie’s complaint. Having had to cave in to the inevitable and admit the Railway Path land is covered by the Parks and Green Spaces Strategy as the Blogger pointed out over … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: They don't know what they're doing pt. 1,356

Posted on November 5, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

You can’t, of course, have a full-blown political scandal without a ‘gate’ suffix and logo. Bristol Indymedia have gone for ‘Bishopgate’ but at the Blogger we’ve settled for ‘Red Trouser Gate’ and a rather fetching logo. Now on to the … Continue reading →

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All the news that's fit to print?

Posted on November 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

No sign yet of the Evening Cancer publishing anything about the David Bishop Greenbank land sale scandal. No doubt the fact that their Saturday columnist, Bristol’s most pompous man, George Ferguson is intimately involved in the scandal is entirely coincidental … Continue reading →

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The magical effect of multi-millionaire Merchant Venturers on Bristol City Council

Posted on November 1, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

If you want to see in close-up how Bristol City Council operates one rule for normal people and another for its multi-millionaire property developer clients, take a look a look at the documents they’ve published about their sell-off of our … Continue reading →

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Another bloody CONsultation

Posted on September 20, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

More good work from the Green Bristol Blog who’ve spotted that Railway Path wreckers, Square Peg Developments (Blogger passim), have consulted with and got the go-ahead – according to their optimistically titled Planning Performance Agreement (pdf) with Bristol City Council … Continue reading →

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Insignificance

Posted on September 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Back in February, in their Parks and Green Spaces Strategy (pdf), the city council had this to say about the Bristol and Bath Railway Path: Bristol has a number of strategically important green links, providing important traffic free cycling and … Continue reading →

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