Appalling disregard for the local community, globalist dictatorship at its finest. If the council has local elections in May, rally the local community and vote the fascists out!
Sadly Bristol had council elections just last year, so this crowd are in City Hall for a while yet. And to be honest I don't think any other political party would be doing anything differently. See above for how much both Labour and the Tories have been behind these schemes in the first place.
"Any other political party" - You're assuming that Labour, Tories and Green are the only parties? There are plenty of parties who would NOT be imposing 15 minute cities on their people and you and others need to get out and campaign and vote for them.
You've been so busy covering this topic Helen, so thanks for your dedication. Great that you got a 3 minute statement in at the WECA meeting on Friday too. Let's hope that the whole sad event puts Bristol's Liveable Neighbourhood trials well and truly on the map....'if it ain't right, do it at night' says it all!
Terrific summary of events in East Bristol and you're right, next up will be South Bristol then North Bristol then West Bristol until the whole city is 'liveable'. Everything Bristol City Council does is motivated by it's hatred of cars and independent mobility.
Dontcha just love this imposed liveability? It's so, I don't know, life-giving, and creates such a feeling of wellbeing and expansion of the soul. So grateful for the beneficent tyrants for having our best interests at heart.
Oh whoops, but what if they don't actually have a heart? 🤪
It IS outrageous! Makes you very angry to hear abour social engineering of this sort. It was particularly prevalent in the 60s-70s but should have been left there. Power clearly goes straight to council people's heads. I hope you can find a way to prevent further incursions.
I haven't yet worked out if MKUltra-style mind manipulation goes on as part of the initiation rites once you are elected as councillor, or if the system is totally rigged in the form of the candidates all already being onside with TPTB's agendas. It could be a bit of both, plus god knows what kinds of blackmail. Whatever, they emerge fully as servants of the agendas and not of the people.
Ridiculous. Do you know where these officious officials live? Could the residents of the disaffected areas do the same to them? You'd need a tractor and some large planters, a few bollards ... and high-vis jackets and headlamps ...
I believe this has already been suggested by some of the local residents. We'll have to see how things pan out. There's a lot of outrage that one of the poorest areas has been chosen for this 'trial', with the Orwellian excuse that precisely because they are poor they need the council to help them by getting rid of all the rich people driving through their streets, for their own health and safety. It's really getting so monotonous and boring...
With Bristol City Council now firmly in the grasp of the Green Party—those insufferable, virtue-signaling lackeys of the globalist machine—the already catastrophic descent into WEF-sanctioned, NWO-engineered lunacy is only going to accelerate. If you thought the city was circling the drain before, just wait until these sanctimonious eco-fanatics finish flushing whatever remains of its sanity down the sewer.
As an *ex*-Bristolian—one of the few fortunate enough to have *escaped* over a quarter of a century ago—I can only describe my rare, reluctant returns to that crumbling husk of a city as **horrific**. Whether it’s visiting family or begrudgingly taking on commission work, every trip confirms what I already know: Bristol is a fractured, festering disaster zone, overrun with the detritus of modern Britain. Illegals and aimless dropouts shuffle through its streets, propped up by a bloated welfare system that rewards failure while punishing anyone who dares to be productive.
The whole place reeks of decay—both physical and moral. What was once a historic, character-filled city is now a soulless parody of itself, where endless roadblocks and absurd restrictions stifle actual movement, while taxpayer-funded activist groups push ever further into their cultish, progressive delusions. Every visit reminds me why I left, and every new headline out of that dystopian hellhole reassures me that I made the right decision. Bristol, once a proud city, is now little more than a Green Party-approved experiment in controlled decline.
Whilst I empathise with your disappointment about Bristol, it's not just the Green Party, it's all of them. No healthy solution will come through the current political and electoral system. And I wonder if any city whose wealth and history is bound up with slave trading can display robust health in modern times? That's not a 'woke' observation, simply noting the realities of the energies bound up in a place through past events. I am not sure that pride Bristol may once have displayed had a firm foundation.
The only part of that I can remotely agree with is the undeniable truth that our current political and electoral system is a sham—a carefully managed illusion of choice designed to keep the masses pacified while ensuring that nothing of real consequence *ever* changes. The entire charade is rigged to funnel discontent into dead ends, where the occasional reshuffling of puppets gives people the false hope that the next batch of grifters will somehow be different. Spoiler alert: **they won’t.**
As for Bristol? I wrote that place off years ago—along with nearly every other bloated, dysfunctional urban sprawl in this rotting husk of a nation. When I abandoned the city for the sanity of the hinterlands, I knew I was leaving behind something irredeemable. The modern metropolis, once the beating heart of civilization, has become a grotesque parody of itself—an open-air asylum where atomized, deracinated populations fester in soulless anonymity, clinging to whatever degenerate belief system or transient subculture helps them feel something other than crushing isolation.
I’ve written extensively on this grim phenomenon—the inevitable consequence of packing too many people into an artificial environment designed for consumption rather than production. The city dweller is no longer a citizen, no longer a creator, no longer bound by any meaningful ties to land, tradition, or community. Instead, he is a transient, interchangeable unit of labor and spending, existing solely to grease the gears of a system that neither knows nor cares about him beyond his purchasing power.
And what does that lead to? Decay. Moral, cultural, and societal. Stripped of deeper purpose, the urbanite descends into hedonism, nihilism, or whatever fashionable delusion is currently being peddled by the ruling class. The more disconnected from production—from real, tangible work that binds a person to reality—the more absurd, self-destructive, and degenerate their beliefs become. The cities are lost not just because they are mismanaged, but because their very structure demands decline. The system isn't broken, it's working fine - decline is the goal.
Appalling disregard for the local community, globalist dictatorship at its finest. If the council has local elections in May, rally the local community and vote the fascists out!
Sadly Bristol had council elections just last year, so this crowd are in City Hall for a while yet. And to be honest I don't think any other political party would be doing anything differently. See above for how much both Labour and the Tories have been behind these schemes in the first place.
Bristol has it's own Deep State
"Any other political party" - You're assuming that Labour, Tories and Green are the only parties? There are plenty of parties who would NOT be imposing 15 minute cities on their people and you and others need to get out and campaign and vote for them.
You've been so busy covering this topic Helen, so thanks for your dedication. Great that you got a 3 minute statement in at the WECA meeting on Friday too. Let's hope that the whole sad event puts Bristol's Liveable Neighbourhood trials well and truly on the map....'if it ain't right, do it at night' says it all!
Terrific summary of events in East Bristol and you're right, next up will be South Bristol then North Bristol then West Bristol until the whole city is 'liveable'. Everything Bristol City Council does is motivated by it's hatred of cars and independent mobility.
Dontcha just love this imposed liveability? It's so, I don't know, life-giving, and creates such a feeling of wellbeing and expansion of the soul. So grateful for the beneficent tyrants for having our best interests at heart.
Oh whoops, but what if they don't actually have a heart? 🤪
I'd just like to make clear that damaging those planters in any way is illegal and should not be considered, even after the police have gone.
It IS outrageous! Makes you very angry to hear abour social engineering of this sort. It was particularly prevalent in the 60s-70s but should have been left there. Power clearly goes straight to council people's heads. I hope you can find a way to prevent further incursions.
I haven't yet worked out if MKUltra-style mind manipulation goes on as part of the initiation rites once you are elected as councillor, or if the system is totally rigged in the form of the candidates all already being onside with TPTB's agendas. It could be a bit of both, plus god knows what kinds of blackmail. Whatever, they emerge fully as servants of the agendas and not of the people.
PS I'm writing up something about the current Chair of the Transport Committees's interesting family, which may shed a little light on this matter.
Ridiculous. Do you know where these officious officials live? Could the residents of the disaffected areas do the same to them? You'd need a tractor and some large planters, a few bollards ... and high-vis jackets and headlamps ...
I believe this has already been suggested by some of the local residents. We'll have to see how things pan out. There's a lot of outrage that one of the poorest areas has been chosen for this 'trial', with the Orwellian excuse that precisely because they are poor they need the council to help them by getting rid of all the rich people driving through their streets, for their own health and safety. It's really getting so monotonous and boring...
With Bristol City Council now firmly in the grasp of the Green Party—those insufferable, virtue-signaling lackeys of the globalist machine—the already catastrophic descent into WEF-sanctioned, NWO-engineered lunacy is only going to accelerate. If you thought the city was circling the drain before, just wait until these sanctimonious eco-fanatics finish flushing whatever remains of its sanity down the sewer.
As an *ex*-Bristolian—one of the few fortunate enough to have *escaped* over a quarter of a century ago—I can only describe my rare, reluctant returns to that crumbling husk of a city as **horrific**. Whether it’s visiting family or begrudgingly taking on commission work, every trip confirms what I already know: Bristol is a fractured, festering disaster zone, overrun with the detritus of modern Britain. Illegals and aimless dropouts shuffle through its streets, propped up by a bloated welfare system that rewards failure while punishing anyone who dares to be productive.
The whole place reeks of decay—both physical and moral. What was once a historic, character-filled city is now a soulless parody of itself, where endless roadblocks and absurd restrictions stifle actual movement, while taxpayer-funded activist groups push ever further into their cultish, progressive delusions. Every visit reminds me why I left, and every new headline out of that dystopian hellhole reassures me that I made the right decision. Bristol, once a proud city, is now little more than a Green Party-approved experiment in controlled decline.
Whilst I empathise with your disappointment about Bristol, it's not just the Green Party, it's all of them. No healthy solution will come through the current political and electoral system. And I wonder if any city whose wealth and history is bound up with slave trading can display robust health in modern times? That's not a 'woke' observation, simply noting the realities of the energies bound up in a place through past events. I am not sure that pride Bristol may once have displayed had a firm foundation.
The only part of that I can remotely agree with is the undeniable truth that our current political and electoral system is a sham—a carefully managed illusion of choice designed to keep the masses pacified while ensuring that nothing of real consequence *ever* changes. The entire charade is rigged to funnel discontent into dead ends, where the occasional reshuffling of puppets gives people the false hope that the next batch of grifters will somehow be different. Spoiler alert: **they won’t.**
As for Bristol? I wrote that place off years ago—along with nearly every other bloated, dysfunctional urban sprawl in this rotting husk of a nation. When I abandoned the city for the sanity of the hinterlands, I knew I was leaving behind something irredeemable. The modern metropolis, once the beating heart of civilization, has become a grotesque parody of itself—an open-air asylum where atomized, deracinated populations fester in soulless anonymity, clinging to whatever degenerate belief system or transient subculture helps them feel something other than crushing isolation.
I’ve written extensively on this grim phenomenon—the inevitable consequence of packing too many people into an artificial environment designed for consumption rather than production. The city dweller is no longer a citizen, no longer a creator, no longer bound by any meaningful ties to land, tradition, or community. Instead, he is a transient, interchangeable unit of labor and spending, existing solely to grease the gears of a system that neither knows nor cares about him beyond his purchasing power.
And what does that lead to? Decay. Moral, cultural, and societal. Stripped of deeper purpose, the urbanite descends into hedonism, nihilism, or whatever fashionable delusion is currently being peddled by the ruling class. The more disconnected from production—from real, tangible work that binds a person to reality—the more absurd, self-destructive, and degenerate their beliefs become. The cities are lost not just because they are mismanaged, but because their very structure demands decline. The system isn't broken, it's working fine - decline is the goal.
Tell them to go back to Somalia.
Oh I do love a bit of divide and rule...