Tag Archives: Peter Hammond

Election Question …

Posted on May 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A reader writes … Hello, I wonder if you can help me, I have been trying(without success) to find a list of the EU and local candidates for Bristol. I have been through quite a few different sites but cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol North west, Elections, Housing, Labour Party, Local Elections 2009, Local government, MPs, Politics, Privatisation | Tagged , , | There are 12 comments

Labour Party leadership speculation Easter special

Posted on April 9, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Our man sipping Champagne with the socialists says there’s already open talk in the Bristol Labour Party of the possibility that they could lose eight council seats at the local elections on June 4. This has led to much speculation … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Budget, Elections, Labour Party, Local Elections 2009, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | There are 33 comments

Let them eat cake!

Posted on March 3, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger
Posted in Abolition 200, Bristol, Equalities, Local government, Politics, Race | Tagged , , | There are 8 comments

Shirley and the coconuts

Posted on February 28, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Shirley and the Coconuts … Sounds a bit like a band that had a couple of top ten hits with some sharp calypso inflected disco tunes in the early eighties – courtesy of Hopkins, Rogers and Wright, the legendary production … Continue reading →

Posted in Abolition 200, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Conservatives, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics, Race | Tagged , , , , , | There are 31 comments

Howzat!! Bristol Labour Party caught taking orders from cricket club toffs and House of Lords lobbyists

Posted on February 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Gruesome truth about school places in North Bristol: what you won’t be reading in the Evening Cancer … by lilly manilly Whatever happened to that new school at Ashley Down? They spent enough money on the feasibility studies and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bishopston, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol West, CONsultants, Developments, Education, FOI, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | There are 15 comments

Chickens on the way home

Posted on February 20, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Just been leafing through some Bristol City Council cabinet minutes from 22 February 2007 and item 7 (pdf) catches the eye. The title is ‘Bishopston Ward Primary School’ and it’s a report all about the city council’s plan to build … Continue reading →

Posted in Bishopston, Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Education, Labour Party, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , | There are 17 comments

Hopeless Hammond's merry-go-round

Posted on February 18, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I see that Labour’s education boss, the congenital idiot Peter Hammond – a Labour Party bearded equal opportunities bore who can’t get out of bed in the morning without first procuring an equalities impact assessment and consulting extensively with a … Continue reading →

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More child protection inadequacies exposed

Posted on December 3, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear. It’s been revealed in the Cancer that another Serious Case Review into a child abuse case in Bristol isn’t up to scratch. At last night’s full council meeting the political boss of the city’s children’s services, Peter Hammond, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Education, Health, Local government, Policing, Politics, Social Care | Tagged , | There are 3 comments

Dying for a change?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

After yesterday’s eventual departure of Sharon Shoesmith, Haringay’s Director of Children’s Services, in the wake of the traumatic levels of bureaucratic failure surrounding the death of ‘Baby P’, James Barlow has been taking a look at Bristol’s Safeguarding Children Board … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Conservatives, Education, Health, Labour Party, Local government, Politics, Social Care | Tagged , , , , | There are 6 comments

More CONsultants joy

Posted on November 18, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

City council PR boss Simon Caplan is cross-dressing again. For this week’s edition of PRs in their eyes Matthew, Simon’s going to be education spokeswoman Julie Walton. And what joyous news she brings under the catchy headline, “Council and schools … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, CONsultants, Education, Labour Party, Local government | Tagged , , , | There are 7 comments