Tag Archives: Vowles the Green

Car crash blog post of the week

Take a bow Bristol’s only Green Councillor, Charlie Bolton. In an extraordinarily misjudged outburst on his blog, Charlie managed to put not only a large dent in his credibility and raise huge questions about his personal integrity, he’s also effortlessly … Continue reading

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

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 FLASH***

Bristol City Council – to use their own strangulated bureaucratise – are to take “the opportunity to fully address the issue of the actions of David Bishop,” the Blogger learns tonight. Although quite why they can’t just address the actions … Continue reading

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This sounds like good value

Connecting Bristol and Vowlsie are reporting that Bristol has been chosen as the only city in the UK to be short-listed for the European Green Capital Award. Shit. If this place is the greenest city in Europe we really are … Continue reading

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It's chaos, wrapped in a cock-up, inside a shambles …

Was it only two months ago that the Bristol Blogger pointed out that the sale of city council land on the Railway Path at Greenbank contravened the council’s freshly minted Parks and Green Spaces Strategy? Indeed it was and now … Continue reading

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STOP PRESS: Now they really don’t know what they’re doing!!!

News just coming in … Oh my aching sides! … The shambles just gets more shambolic … It seems Richard Mond, the council’s Head of Parks, Estates & Sport – the man who’s spent over a month not answering a … Continue reading

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They don't know what they're doing! Pt 3

Bish at his desk with attentive middle managers (still from Jan Ormondroyd’s 2008 production of ‘No Questions Please, We’re Incompetent’) It’s a competitive field, but I think my Bristol City Council story of the year is shaping up to be … Continue reading

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They don't know what they're doing!

The plan to rip up the city’s premier green corridor, the Bristol and Bath Railway Path, at Greenbank and build a tower block and houses on it takes a new turn courtesy of the relentless Bristol City Council – Square … Continue reading

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