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DAY GROUP INQUIRY: THE COMMUNITY SUMS UP

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IN THE MATTER OF: THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING REGULATIONS(ENGLAND AND WALES) 2016 AND AN APPEAL BY DAY GROUP LIMITED AGAINST THE REFUSAL OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERMIT FOR AN INSTALLATION TO TREAT INCINERATOR BOTTOM ASH AT AVONMOUTH, BRISTOL ___________________________________________________________________________ CLOSING STATEMENT OF IAN ROBINSON ___________________________________________________________________________   Sir, I would like to open the closure of my arguments […]

PROPERTY IS DEBT

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 Council property boss Robert “Spunkface” Orrett, brought in to the council in 2012 for his “PRIVATE SECTOR EXPERTISE” has ceased to run the world’s most useless council department that specialised in draining us of public money. Last year, Spunkface’s department – responsible for all the council’s buildings and its lucrative land and property portfolio – posted an inexplicably HUGE LOSS of […]

AVONMOUTH COUNCILLOR ENTERS WEIRD SPACE-TIME VORTEX AS LAUNDRY TRIAL DATE SET

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Despite the express instructions of District Judge Rowe at Bristol County Court last month that they negotiate an immediate solution to ‘The Ridiculous Case of the Shuttered Laundry’ at Antona Court within two weeks, Bristol City Council’s legal and housing goons have done the EXACT OPPOSITE and made no effort whatsoever to settle the dispute. The case, […]

WE’RE CRAP CONFIRM AUDITORS

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More exciting news on the Rev Rees’s efforts to support WHISTLEBLOWERS at Bristol City Council. We learn that the Rev’s hapless pair of CHIEF INTERNAL AUDITORS have investigated the state of whistleblowing at Bristol City Council and have discovered – after all these years – that there’s “a lack of co-ordination, no central or comprehensive recording of whistleblowing reports and […]

AUDIT UPDATE

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 Promises by our dear old friends on Bristol City Council’s beyond useless Audit Committee to take a long hard look at the finances of the METROBUS PROJECT on our behalf are floundering after just a few months. At their meeting on 23 September a question from a member of the public on the Metrobus fiasco […]

MARKET FARCES: ‘REASONABLE’ LOSSES?

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Elsewhere in the latest markets report we’re assured that the OLD BENT MANAGEMENT of the service has now been moved on in favour of a new, young all-singing, all dancing team. So how are the new team getting on? Well, a careful read of the report reveals they have managed to collect just 73 PER […]

MARKET FARCES: A WRITE OFF?

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Our endless trudge through the city council’s farcically bent MARKETS SERVICE continues into another year … Back in December, the authority’s ineffectual Internal Audit service dished up their FIFTH report in THREE YEARS about the service for the benefit of their gormless councillor overseers on the Audit Committee. This time around, as well as the […]

REES FOG

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Labour’s Marvin “LUTHER” Rees, now officially selected as their mayoral candidate, continues to inhabit his own personal alternative universe. One of the first to congratulate Luther Rees on getting selected as Labour’s mayoral candidate was SIMON WOOLLEY at Operation Black Vote (OBV), a quango that’s dedicated to getting black people to run in elections. Naturally […]

POOR SUFFER CULTURE BOOST

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Looks like Mayor Luvvie-Dahling and his yes-man sidekick, Cabinet Member for freebies and junketing, Simon “Spend” Cook, have not heard of austerity when it comes to spending money on vital services such as juggling, street entertainers, circus performers, artisan cheese markets and local drama productions. While environment and waste, planning services, highways and transport, housing […]

SPUNKFACE SPUNKS IT!

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What’s the council’s full-pay, part-time private sector property boss, Robert “Spunkface” Orrett been up to now then? A brief glance through the council’s draft accounts for 2014 – 15 reveals that operating costs in his Investment Property section have ROCKETED by over 70 per cent in one year from £1.66m to £2.83m. That’s an INCREASE […]