Tag Archives: Mike Popham

Customer service pants

Posted on November 9, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

News is drifting in about how Bristol City Council has gone about CONsulting on their planned closure of most of their customer service points or area housing offices as we used to call them before the loonies took over. Apparently … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Budget, CONsultants, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , | There are 16 comments

"The mad world of New Labour's efficiency drive"

Posted on April 27, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Interesting article from the Observer’s Management Editor Simon Caulkin on efficiency savings of the type currently favoured by Bristol City Council through their freakishly weird ‘Customer Excellence Programme‘ (pdf). After a brief meditation on the nature of madness, Caulkin comes … Continue reading →

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That Biggles/Fox email exchange in full …

Posted on April 24, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Just arrived back from a notorious South Bristol boozer where an exchange of a number of used £20 notes for emails has successfully taken place. The Bristol Blogger is therefore pleased to present that Ashley Fox/”Biggles” Popham email exchange in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristolian of the week, Clifton, Conservatives, IT, Lib Dems, Local Elections 2009, Local government, Politics | Tagged , | There are 4 comments

Bristolian of the week?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like a member of the Conservative Party is in the frame for the Bristol Blogger’s much coveted ‘Bristolian of the week’ award after a fine piece of plain speaking to the complete loonies currently running things down at … Continue reading →

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Oh shit! More Lib Dem Clifton thickies on the way

Posted on April 8, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

As if they didn’t have enough wealthy twits from Clifton in their councillor ranks, come the elections in June it looks like the Lib Dems will be foisting some more of these ridiculous home counties Tories-in-disguise upon us. Joining Lib … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol North west, Conservatives, Elections, Kingsweston, Lib Dems, Local Elections 2009, Local government, Politics, The Downs | Tagged , , , , , | There are 67 comments

Biggles and the IT cost conundrum

Posted on March 17, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear, oh dear. Are our friendly city council senior officer class telling porkies to our politicians again? Or are our politicians just telling us porkies? An intriguing document arrives in the Blogger’s inbox. Published by Bristol City Council, it’s … Continue reading →

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Lib Dem IT technofix horror

Posted on March 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Newbie Lib Dem finance wizard, the Hampshire businessman and former Tory Mike Popham – who’s been a councillor for less than two years – has granted an interview to the Cancer. And this owner of a software company providing services … Continue reading →

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