by CITIZENS ROBESPIERRE & MURAT ably assisted by Dr J.I Guillotin November’s Full Council meeting saw an outbreak of ‘MARIE ANTOINETTE SYNDROME’ among entitled councillors in official foppery pitted against a SEETHING MASS of unwashed sans-culottes in the public gallery. Controversy began when Lord Mayor Jos Clark decided (without historical precedence in Bristol or nationally) […]
Bristol City Council Chief Exec Nicola ‘Lady Gaga’ Yates wants to cut £90 million from what little remains of local services. But it’s not only the council that teeters on the BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY unable to provide basic services. Remember the ‘Private Finance Initiative’ – or PFI – deals that led to all our new […]
More details continue to emerge about the BLACKLISTING activities of Kier Group, the construction giant which bought up May Gurney and now runs Bristol’s rubbish and recycling collection routes. It seems that Kier paid a WHOPPING £30,620 to the industry-backed spy company The Consulting Association – giving them access to files on 229 workers! After […]
Our blue skies imagineering property magnate, hipster entrepreneur, millionaire mayor George Ferguson is at it again. In a recent reply to questions on Bristol City Council’s use of ZERO-HOURS CONTRACTS – where employers offer you a job but don’t actually guarantee any work – he half-heartedly explained: In respect of contractors, I cannot give you […]
Council finally calls time on sickening anti-safety bosses – but will Mayor Fergo take notice? After a long fight led by determined construction workers, Bristol City Council in early September voted to END THE GRAVY TRAIN of juicy local authority contracts for firms that profit out of ‘blacklists’. With blacklisting, construction giants like McAlpine secretly […]
A couple of examples emerge of just how charitable our old friends at the SOCIETY OF MERCHANT VENTURERS really are. First, please step forward TIM ROSS who seems well-versed in that old Venturer trick of turning public money into private wealth. Ross was, until June last year, Chairman of financial basketcase waste company MAY GURNEY […]
After a few technical problems (it being boiling hot for a start) the latest issue of your favourite muckraking scandal sheet The Bristolian is now hitting the streets! Packed full of stories, this edition features: CUFF LOVE Bristol City Council arms security guards with cop-style handcuffs to use on people visiting Phoenix Court ‘Customer Service […]
Notorious blacklisters Kier poised to take over May Gurney, run waste collection contract As troubled waste management company May Gurney teeters on the edge, one thing is for sure: no one in Bristol is going to benefit – least of all the binmen and women struggling to keep the city clean under ever-tougher working conditions […]