Desperate times at the top of Bristol City Council.
A recent question to Full Council from a member of the public – ‘The Chair’s confidence in the work of the Monitoring Officer’ – was unceremoniously banned by, er, “Dumpty” Tim O’Gara, the Monitoring Officer!
Dumpty Tim claimed the question was ‘offensive’. Although from where we’re sitting it looks more like the chair, “Tory” Tony Dyer, didn’t fancy having to tell the truth to the public.
Which is that his legal brains Dumpty Tim is obviously a useless lying bent incompetent that it’s impossible to publicly state you have any confidence in.
Huge sums of money dished out to ‘disappear’ WECA bosses by clown man regional mayor
It’s been a very busy time down at WECA for tasty payoffs and gagging orders. Since hapless clown man, Dan “The WECA Man” Norris, was elected in May 2021 there’s been the following exits:
June 2021: David Gibson, Director of Infrastructure exited with a pay off and gagging order;
September 2021: the Director of Governance exited with a pay off and gagging order;
February 2022: the Director of Finance exited with a pay off and gagging order.
And let’s not forget Chief Executive, Patricia “Psycho” Greer disappeared in 2022 too. Later paid off in August 2023 with a £219,000 golden handshake with a gagging order in place.
Into 2024 and we’ve said goodbye to Rachel Musson, Director of Resources, with rumours of sex discrimination circulating. She exited with a pay off and gagging order.
Another Director of Infrastructure exited with a payoff and gagging order and Alex Holly, Director of HR exited with a payoff and gagging order.
The term ‘basketcase’ doesn’t do the Weca Man’s organisation justice.
IT AIN’T HAPPENING! WORKING CLASS BARTON HILL KICKS MIDDLE CLASS GREEN ARSE AS DERANGED SCHEME IS HALTED BY PROTESTORS
‘CORRUPT CESSPIT’
In a packed field, the best question to Full Council in December came from Jamie Bolley.
He asked for a breakdown of EBLN costs to be published “so the public can be reassured that the council isn’t the corrupt cesspit that it is appearing to be!”
The council’s expensive PR team aren’t working are they?
The gift that keeps on giving
Posted on Facebook in December:
“Last night I had to call an ambulance for my husband. I thought he was having a stroke. The ambulance didn’t know how to get from Salisbury Street back to the main road and had to double back twice due to road closures and parked cars. They only got to hospital before me in the car because they were on blues and twos. I left after them. The ambulance reported that it’s not the first time they’ve been delayed. Someone is going to die if this crazy scheme doesn’t stop.”
FAKE CONSULTATION
The wheels have come off claims by Bristol City Council officers that their public consultation for the EBLN was some sort of top quality engagement process.
Transport Committee Chair “Dick” Ed Plowden has had to admit, after being asked publicly, that one of the council’s community group consultees – The Barton Hill Disabilities Group – was entirely fictitious. Apparently invented by dodgy transport officers to tick some boxes.
Lo and Behold! One of the main groups now objecting to the EBLN are disabled people struggling to get out of their homes and around their own neighbourhood.
Who would have ever guessed?
LAWFARE?
Council officers thought they were on to a big winner on the streets of Barton Hill back in January.
They requested the coppers remove local anti-EBLN protestors from the road for ‘obstructing the highway’ and preventing council contractors installing their liveable neighbourhood street furniture crap.
“Er,” came the response from Avon and Somerset’s finest, “they aren’t ‘obstructing the highway’ because the council has closed the road to carry out its works. Protestors are doing nothing illegal. They can’t obstruct a closed highway.”
Ain’t the law a bitch?
ONE RULE FOR US: ROAD BLOCKS
Green Windmill Councillor, Lisa Stone, is demanding that Hereford Street in her ward is made two-way again after being turned into a one way street as part of the Bedminster Green regeneration shitshow.
She also complains that the Hereford Road one-way scheme was implemented after plans were drawn up after a consultation which only mentioned changes to Whitehouse Road and Whitehouse Lane.
Shame Councillor Stone and her Green colleagues remain silent on the concerns of residents suffering in the East Bristol Liveable neighbourhood where numerous roads have been blocked and made one-way after poor quality consultation with residents.
Congratulations to Lib Dem Councillor Andrew Brown, the former chair of Bristol City Council’s Audit Committee, on his promotion. He’s now Chair of the Economy and Skills Policy Committee at the council.
When asked by a member of the public at one of his final Audit Committee meetings to name Nolan’s Seven Principles of Public Life, he managed three.
Just the man to be in charge of the city’s economy then.
The BBC excelled themselves recently as slave-trade apologists when the panel of ‘Politics Live’ on BBC 2 collectively cut off and chastised a Colston Four defendant when they had the gall to suggest that Bristol City Council decision-making was dominated by a cabal of the unelected, super-rich and prejudiced descendants of slave-traders.
It seems that the Merchant Venturer mafia are more influential nationally than we may have imagined. Whoever we elect Washington calls the shots. Strange days indeed.
