Bristol Local Election results 2013 and news review with former mayor candidate for the Green party and new Councillor (announced today) for Bishopston, Daniella Radice. Chris Browns website Bristol 24/7 has best election results coverage: Labour now largest party in Bristol as LibDem vote collapses. City Slacker news: LibDem on Mayor Fergusons cabinet Simon Cook retains his Clifton East seat by 17 votes while Cheryl Anne loses her Horfield seat to Labour in 27.5% turnout. Not satisfied with volunteering their help for mayor George Ferguson to help him make decisions about the Citys budget, financial services firm KPMG have their tentacles into BBC Radio Bristol volunteering a 7:30am business news for the BBC Breakfast show but failing to reference a report talking up the economy promising 200,000 jobs about to come to Britain, but who wrote this report and why have the BBC given up their editorial independence? KPMG have a terrible track record, and are embroiled in several scandals including criminal insider dealing in the US, falsifying the accounts of HBOS, undervaluing HBOS junk assets by 7000% and are being investigated for price fixing with the big four financial services firms. The chairman of publicly owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Sir Philip Hampton, has said the bank will be ready to return to the private sector next year. Martin Summers disagrees and Daniella doresnt think the public will get as much for the banks shares as we paid for them. The Cayman Islands will in future share information on taxes with the UK and other countries. Bermuda and other British tax havens have signed agreements on sharing tax information, the Treasury has said. UK Uncut expose in court the âsweetheartâ tax deal which saved Goldman Sachs millions of pounds which they agreed with Tax people HMRC to save Chancellor George Osborne from âmajor embarrassmentâ. A £255m project to turn the former Courage brewery in Bristol into homes, offices and shops has gone into receivership. Work at the Finzels Reach site halted some time ago but now receivers have been called in after developer HDG Mansur defaulted on a loan. Transport protesters gathered outside City Hall to condemn the city council over lack of consultation on transport issues. They claim the council only pays lip service to peoples views before taking final decisions. David Mock, from the traffic and transport subgroup of the Greater Area Neighbourhood Partnership, claimed their views about a new showcase bus route were not considered relevant by council officials. Simon Brookes, who has been campaigning for the removal of a bus lane in Westbury Road, said: "Consultations are a sham, e-petitions are being ignored, and as a result of that, there can be one conclusion â the electorates views are being ignored." Tory Councillor John Goulandris (Stoke Bishop) claimed the city council had a hidden agenda to "slow the city down so the excuse of congestion charging can be introduced". Frack Free Somerset organise meeting in Ston Easton, Somerset, about proposals to pump toxic chemicals into the Mendip Hills. Local people described "seeing nothing like it" in the village for the past 16 years with the number of people that attended. And so it came to pass. Despite near universal professional opposition and strong political pressure, the Section 75 regulations that explicitly open up the NHS to competition law were approved in the House of Lords last week. A three-line whip on Liberal Democrat peers ensured a majority of over a hundred, with Baroness Shirley Williams speaking warmly of "an exciting new direction" for the NHS. The rage expressed across social media forums is unlikely to disappear but what can opponents do next? http://www.nhsforsale.info http://www.keepournhspublic.com http://protectournhs.wordpress.com
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