'Vandals target councillor's house'

[djbombscare]

Labour should have kept a few of there promises if they wanted to stay in.

They fucked up. . they're crap and luckilly enough its looks likely that the Liberals will get in rather than any local BNP rep.

 

[bristol_citizen]

and i've met lib dem councillors who have denied that they knew anything about john astley's child porn, pretty sure they've done it publically too, can't see why they wouldn't.

Not true, Barbara Janke was invited on numerous occasions in the Council House (and on the record) to deny that either herself or any of her party were ever informed about Astley's activities. She has declined to ever answer the question.
You cannot rewrite history on this one.

 

[JTG]

Labour should have kept a few of there promises if they wanted to stay in.

They fucked up. . they're crap and luckilly enough its looks likely that the Liberals will get in rather than any local BNP rep.

I think the anti-Labour tide is going to keep coming in for a while yet - there's still a few wards where they have one councillor having lost the other to the Lib Dems and I reckon they'll lose again.

Not that the Lib Dems are any fucking use whatsoever, the council's as crap and in hock to business rather than people as it always has been.

Afaik the fash aren't trying again in Bristol after their mini push in 2003. One BNP candidate in the whole west of England thank fuck.

 

[Gerry1time]

Not true, Barbara Janke was invited on numerous occasions in the Council House (and on the record) to deny that either herself or any of her party were ever informed about Astley's activities. She has declined to ever answer the question.
You cannot rewrite history on this one.

not trying to rewrite anything mate, just know what i was told when i asked when i worked there (in the council house, with councillors) and had the feeling that they had said it publically. Do remember that astley affair council meeting at the time, seemed like a lot of labour politiking that the lib dems were refusing to rise to, but dunno. Either way, i'm not in this for points scoring, so whatever really.

 

[bristol_citizen]

Do remember that astley affair council meeting at the time, seemed like a lot of labour politiking that the lib dems were refusing to rise to

I'm no fan of the Labour Party but they called that one absolutely correctly. They were raising a fundamental issue of governance: should party political allegiance come before the protection of the people you govern? In this particular instance can we expect that allegiance to come above the protection of our children and young people?
Ironically when Janke was asked by the Labour leader, Peter Hammond: "Were any concerns raised with you or your party whips, either formally or informally, with regard to Astley and child protection issues?"
Janke's reply was that Hammond was "engaging in party politics."
Hardly a resounding denial is it?
Oh, and this isn't what people in the Council House told me. I was at all the relevant meetings and have copious notes.

 

[bristol_citizen]

The Filwood result in last night's election:
Christopher David Jackson The Labour Party Candidate 1255 52.34
Ann Marjorie Cooper Liberal Democrat 776 32.36
Jonathan Robert Hucker The Conservative Party Candidate 223 9.30
Xavier Panades I Blas The Green Party 144 6.01

Makes claims of desperate Labour tactics look a bit thin.

 

[gloryhornetgirl]

Xavier Panades I Blas

 

[fat hamster]

Do you know Xavier Panades I Blas, glorygirl?

 

[Sunspots]

Do you know Xavier Panades I Blas, glorygirl?

Google loves a name like that.

Assuming he's the only Xavier Panades I Blas who lives in Bedminster (), he's... a palaeontology graduate, he's into fossil eggshells, and his masters thesis is about 'determining the taxonomical utility of megaloolithid oospecies'.

 

[fat hamster]

Might be the same guy...he's also on Bristol Freecycle.

 

[Iam]

Wasn't he the...

Oh, nevermind.

I'm thinking of Xavier Panades J Blas.

Silly me.

 

[Sunspots]

I'm thinking of Xavier Panades J Blas.

Silly me.

Don't worry about it fella, a lot of people get the two of 'em confuzzled.

Xavier sounds like he's a very Green bloke.

I'm imagining he might be a sort of cross between Indiana Jones and Professor Denzil Dexter (from The Fast Show)!

If I'd have had a vote yesterday, I'd have voted for him.

 

[JTG]

the Evening Pest today had a story about how the cops caught some young scrotes handing out leaflets on Filwood Broadway on election day containing all sorts of allegations and libels against Mrs Cooper. Didn't say what these allegations were natch.

They have no idea where the leaflets originated from though. The Lib Dems are making noises about demanding a re-run of the election.