So we're into 'Mayor' Marvin Rees second year and things just go from bad to ridiculously bad and disbelief. This City is under Rees and his loony Deputy (she appears to be equally objectionable by the way), is fast turning into a mini Brent under Barmy Bernie Grant, but that's the Labour philosophy I guess.....piss off as many citizens as possible due to the voice and deranged reasoning of a few and then dismiss all other reasoning. Bristol Arena Firstly he decides, and against all considered advice bar that of the consortium who want to build it privately, when he's clearly taken a back hander from them on his jollies to Malaysia, that the Bristol Arena that surely all right minded people think should be built in a central area of the city rather than 10 miles away at Filton gets replaced by luxury flats that few people will be able to afford. I'm glad that the Tories and Lib Debs have called Rees out on it. So far this catastrophic joke has cost the Council £12m with nothing to show for it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And now because the Colston Hall is closing again for refurbishments for 2 years and the Bierkeller suddenly closed (p.s am I allowed to say Colston given we seem to want to eradicate out history too in case it offends some liberals ?) no bands come to Bristol and wont whilst there is no where to play bar the Fleece & Firkin and the O2. I'm having to go to Cardiff for UFO and Birmingham for Ozzy Osbourne. These are both Cities who have got their act together....... Roadworks He harps on about how bad it looks for visitors getting off the train at Temple Meads seeing the old derelict Sorting Office, but come out of the station and a bigger eyesore and ballache are the perpetual roadworks everywhere that just get worse. The Council have now started resurfacing/redressing roads that are perfectly healthy when parts of central Bristol will break your suspension if you drive over them. The Gyratory is the biggest eyesore I have ever seen and because it seems that the level of due diligence required before such an undertaking was started fell well short of what a professional contractor should be carrying out it's now not going to be finished for another year or more. But what irks me the most is that it wont improve the traffic flow or commuting time, it will just be cosmetically better looking. I ask, what is the point in pretty pavements when the daily commute via Temple Meads is horrendous. Bristol Airport Marvellous Marv also came up with the blinding idea of an underground railyway from Temple Meads to Bristol Airport.....Really ?? How many centuries and tens of billions of pounds would that cost ????? Never mind that Filton should have become the real Bristol Airport and it was there long before 99% of the NIMBYs Metro Bus We have a Metro Bus that people seem to be using although not in great numbers, run by a company that didn't/don't want it and yet it comes no where near to where I live in one of the most densely populated areas of the city. Ashton Court Miniature Railway So Marvellous Marvs Deputy has called on a group of railway volunteers and enthusiasts to get their act together over the profits made by the miniature railway at Ashton Court that's been giving people pleasure for 50 years. It costs the Council nothing and is run by unpaid people so back off bitch I'm proud of my City and it's history but FFS - you couldn't make some of this up and that's without the debacles of two football teams who dared ask for new stadiums. Rant over
what some / most do not understand is that they may not have even had the chance to be here or any where else had not history taken the course it did. Whilst I do not condone slavery in any form now or in the past Colston was only doing what many many others did and it was not just slavery that he gave to our fair city …. I wonder how many kings shillings were taken up by non" british / Europeans? " but we don't condemn ancient mariners / ships dockyards etc! in the days of the early navy's etc etc! changing COLSTON HALL ...CABOTS CIRCUS … etc is shameful Absolutely, and in a lot of places where there are minor collisions, within city limits because hedges over hang roads and path's " its an instinct to swerve" and the odd wing mirror scratch down the side . or pedestrian injured is not important..... I had the "priveledge" to drive all over EUROPE for in excess of 10 years .. probably 120k miles and visited pretty much every corner of the Benelux and France and its major cities /towns as well as vast swathes of GERMANY, ITALY SPAIN and parts of the old Yugoslavia .. road projects bigger, much bigger were executed in far less time than the fiasco that is the nightmare surrounding TM's and Redliffe / Victoria and with much less mess and hindrance waste a big waste ….. ho ho ho he ought to go on britains got no talent …a show for the less talented … imagine a cog and rail [ Snowdonia style ] underground .. he will next be dreaming of an underground tunnel to PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND as it will cut down on air pollution caused by the planes his railway takes you to …… a master piece not many use it but it makes a fortune £500k so far, out of motorists that take the slip road … but the real cost will never be raised by those that use it... a few hundred? due to maintenance and running costs …….. another sign of demented reasoning …… So Marvellous Marvs Deputy has called on a g... You've got everything about right but I can in no way agree with this comment … IT SHOULD BE … Marvin COCO THE CLOWN Rees Deputy ……. mind you some of this was red trousers brief ……………...
Oh I know, and some of Fergusons ideas were equally barking such as the giant slide down Park St and banning cars from Central Bristol on weekends. Plus he's about as dodgy as they come in business terms, but at least he's also called Mental Marvin out over the arena along with many others. I've also driven extensively abroad, although not all of it has been in Europe and overall I've done nothing like the mileage you've clocked up there. I wrote to the Council asking why they were re-dressing perfectly good roads and ignoring roads that have the equivalent of the Marianas Trench in them, and their automatic reply said I would get a response within x weeks. They've already broken their SLA on that, and there is no sign of anything being forthcoming yet. Come back to the head of Highways at Swindon Council being a rabid anti car campaigner....I mean really.....who employs these idiots ? I've heard that Rees simply sacks colleagues that don't agree with his policies and approach. Whether they then disappear mysteriously is anyone's guess but I wouldn't bet against it. He sounds like an evil sh*t to work with/for. I don't condone historic or modern slavery either, but you cant change history by pretending it didn't happen. no matter how regrettable or distasteful it might be. By definition, history can't be changed. But it shouldn't be ignored because of a bunch of do gooders. As far as I'm aware no one is celebrating Colstons track record, but as you've said, it was of the age when all merchants used slavery as free/cheap labour. I abhor whaling but it still goes on and wont change while the likes of Japan and Norway see no wrong in slaughtering fellow and helpless mammals.. Do we perhaps now forget the two world wars in the 20th Century because of the evil of the Nazi's in the latter one and the suffering that they caused millions of innocent people ? Will we choose to forget Lady Diana's death because it was upsetting, or 9/11 because it brings back horrible images to normal and peace loving people ? Thank God for the sensible and right thinking people of this world like of you and I
yep that was a reported news item … was it about the time there was a influx of bodies suddenly appearing in the docks? I don't usually take much credence in what third parties comment about … prefer my own source … but in the proverbial " my mates cat said" .. " coco the clown" [ my nickname for him ] said something similar along those lines and … wished he would disappear into a morass of his own making … as an after thought checked back loosely on my mileages and how wrong can you be … clocked up 30k+ just going to Luxemborg airport, [most journeys were regular so observed time took to dig up roads etc] its actually about 256,00 miles [records shows 320 weeks and average of 700 miles per week, but also did 1 month holidays of around 2500 miles touring, ] of the 3.36million I have driven since passing my test ………… I have kept a log in every car I have driven fuel bought/miles/etc and added into it other mileages from time to time ..like hire cars / company veh's etc … I now only manage about 20,000 a year so unlikely to make 4,000,000 which was my target in 2006 [ doing in excess of 140k a year then! ]
Just be happy you aren't living in the large room called Canada with Trump sitting at the foot of your bed waiting to ruin every day, and it seems to me that this idiot mayor went to the Trump School of Charm.
I don't think it has anything to do with him being a 'loony lefty' so that seems a bit of a daft title to me. I think he's just a bit incompetent, as are people on both sides.
JUST A BIT? J U S T A B I T ? if you put a dam at each end of the Avon gorge and filled it with his incompetence and arrogance it would overflow and flood Bristol all the way up to Totterdown …….
it does seem that way agreed, but it started out to reflect what I spent and how different journeys/ styles of driving etc effected fuel consumption.. in the late 60's I had a mini cooper that was capable of over 100 mph and around this point speed v care was quite a fuel difference also I had noticed how many miles I had done and how much fuel I had used and how much I had actually personally spent achieving that ( not many peeps had cars ) so they would put in a gallon or so which was always more than required! Also noted at that time I had done so many miles? and thought before I get to age? how many would I do? etc etc I have never stopped..... but each vehicle gets a new book and I pretty much dump the old ones after a few years... I had 2 new fiats and in the 14 years I had them put 424,000 on the doblo and 278,000 on the ducato when the doblo went after 4 years I had a couple of other cars and rattled up 51,000 miles … the replacement for the Ducato a transit has only managed 5300 miles since March the 1st ………… ducato 9/10 v transit 6/10 ……… good job I don't live in AUSSIE! probably have done 6 million miles now! ….
To be fair what did the previous mayor achieve? Combine that with the fact that anyone who leads Bristol is fighting with our nonsensical Council setup and conflicting interests of the local areas. He's been absolute crap but I also think most people would be to be fair.
RT had 1 in 10 good moments but as you say the council is the biggest villain but now boosted by COCO ...
Listening, not on here, to some of the views of locals ( south eastish Bristol ) it is amazing that they moan about bus services, rates roads lack of shops! [cant understand lack of shops 4 big supermarkets, few mediums, umpteen take aways or sit ins, Imperial park Bemmy ], how city is getting ruined by council / mayor etc etc etc.. the answer to the question .. is ............ "I wouldn't vote for them, voted labour all my life and my parents and grand parents" the next question …. " well it is the fault of the tories and liberals , nothing the matter with labour councillors " and pretty much any discussion or argument stops there … concrete wall and headache would be a softer option ………
I vote labour but voted for Ferguson. The Mayor post needs a man with drive. Bristol is a damn sight lower profile since Rees took over.
Went to Imperial Park yesterday and they are now ripping up the surface of the road around the Wills/Hartecliffe roundabout. Congestion was epic on the roundabout itself and on all approach roads due to the traffic lights being out of whack. Again, another piece of road that doesn't need resurfacing compared to some others.
now in his third year and has been absolutely c*** FOR 2 YEARS PUT THE VETO ON A WALL IN THE SHOPPING PRECINCT AT STOCKWOOD … Well finally after much complaining he paid out [ instructed/allowed ] a cowboy building out fit to do absolutely disgustingly repairs at a cost of £30,000. The job could easily have been done properly, tidily and looked in keeping for around £12-15,000 instead a worse eyesore than it was in its state of collapse !!!!!!!!!!! and now he has paid £98,000 to a woman who has done 7 months work, been paid an extorinate salary no doubt during this time because she feels she cant do the job/ carryon with the job because of family circumstances. this follows on apparently to a wrist slap? a year or so ago when he paid out /authorised [ quarter of £m ] to people/person who he couldn't get on with. Iask the question was that them that wouldn't agree with him and were not in his party???? AT LEAST THE LATEST ONE AND MAYBE THE OTHER PAYMENTS are according to the auditors legal peeps not contractral payments .. even members of his own party "labour" appear to want to distant themselves from him / it. that squandering of money could easily have paid for an extra 5 policemen or a dozen care workers or transport for the elderly in a few of the areas where there is none …. Also, not exactly related, but back a few months a few comments were bandied about regarding the cowboy efforts of a team filling... well dumping a bucket of tar in the pothole and tamping it down with a plate on a pole... that whole 100m of road, a main route is now worse than a 19 century lane! the holes are bigger deeper and longer
