Tag Archives: Jon House

Ashton Vale, Ashton Gate, new stadium, World Cup, Sainsburys: the battlelines for 2010

Posted on December 18, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

With the city’s World Cup bid accepted earlier this week, now might be a useful time to look at what will be happening at the grassroots as we enter 2010. First thing, the phoney war over Sainsburys at the Gate … Continue reading →

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Tesco Ashton Gate Planning Meeting: CANCELLED!!!

Posted on October 23, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The dedicated planning meeting to decide the Tesco Ashton Gate planning application has been cancelled today without explanation. This follows another Lib Dem/council officer fiasco today after Deputy Chief Exec Jon House and his sidekick Alun Owen appeared to take … Continue reading →

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The risky business of democracy …

Posted on August 7, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Leafing through the city council’s Corporate Risk Register (pdf) today musing about maybe getting out a bit more proved to be more interesting than planned. Basically this register is a list of things the council’s doing that could go badly … Continue reading →

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Phew!

Posted on July 5, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

What a relief for us all. Isn’t it lucky that Bristol City Council employed a new Chief Executive and gave them an inflation busting 30% pay rise just last year? It’s even luckier that this Chief Exec then spent the … Continue reading →

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Court circular #5

Posted on May 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Still no sign of a CONsultant plumber on the third floor of the Counts Louse to fix the leaks … Today we hear that this copper from Sheffield who doesn’t know where Easton is who’s been put put in charge … Continue reading →

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Court circular #4

Posted on May 12, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to reader Overayard, we have some more news on the latest ludicrous private sector CONsultant to board the Counts Louse gravy train, Mark Fletcher. Fletcher is a senior partner at the fashionable (ie. expensive) PR and communications agency ‘Reputation’. … Continue reading →

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Court circular #3

Posted on May 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

More news drifts in about this copper from Sheffield who doesn’t know where Easton is that’s been put in charge of marketing at the city council on a salary of just £140k a year. A reader writes: Why does Bistol … Continue reading →

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Court circular #2

Posted on May 8, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Murky Depths writes … You may be interested to know that at a meeting I attended earlier this year the esteemed Mr House (Deputy Chief Exec) made a BIG show of the fact that he ‘doesn’t do email‘, saying that … Continue reading →

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Court circular #1

Posted on May 8, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

By Shitstirrer Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear! Less than a year into city council Chief Exec Jan Ormondroyd’s “strategic leadership” dream, with the purple regal carpet barely fitted and the bullet-proof glass not … Continue reading →

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It's The Spongers! (New vertical edition)

Posted on January 14, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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