Neil Chick 🏳️‍🌈🌹

We're backing Bristol's Bus Drivers First Group made £204.3m in profit last year. Shareholder dividends were up by 45%. Yet, bus drivers have been forced to take industrial action to get the pay rise they deserve. The main sticking point in negotiations is First Group’s refusal to back date their drivers’ pay rise in full. Backdating it would cost around 0.15% of First Groups’s yearly profits. Doing so is clearly affordable and reasonable. Without our bus drivers, Bristol would grind to a halt. These strikes are causing severe disruption to Bristol’s workers. Senior management need to get back to the negotiating table with Unite and give our bus drivers the wages they have earned.

🤝 Pay Bristol’s bus drivers what they deserve

📣 Our statement

19.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal, dies aged 76 The singer, who later became famous on reality TV show The Osbournes, dies less than three weeks after retirement concert

RIP Ozzy
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22.07.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New children’s homes in Bristol left empty for almost a year There are almost 100 children from Bristol in care far away from the city, costing the council millions

🚨 BREAKING: "New children’s homes in Bristol left empty for almost a year despite staggering costs"

🏘️ Under Green leadership, new homes are sitting empty - a bad situation for the children and costly for the taxpayer

📢 This needs urgent action 👇

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

07.07.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This Labour government is investing to create good jobs, deliver economic growth and put more money in your pocket.

This Labour government is investing to create good jobs, deliver economic growth and put more money in your pocket.

11.06.2025 07:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Save Bristol's Libraries Libraries provide a crucial service to the city, not least for the worst-off. Our valued community spaces need to be protected and invested in. Libraries need more investment, not less. Sources: ...

🚨 BREAKING: The Green / Lib Dem council have put library closures back on the table

📚 On Friday, they set up a new subcommittee that will be tasked with making the library service 'financially sustainable’, refusing to vote to rule out closures

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12.05.2025 12:54 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2

Return Eagle House to the community Eagle House Youth Club was shut down in 2014 before being leased to a church, which have the building until May 2026. Throughout this time, residents have been clear they want the building returned to...

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02.05.2025 17:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stay home poster from COVID from 2020

5 Years ago today 😢

23.03.2025 08:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I missed this part

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28.02.2025 19:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sign the Petition Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

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Lord Ken Clarke: "Rachel Reeves is a perfectly intelligent, serious woman... so you can't blame the first 6 months of the Labour government for the problems we now face..."

14.01.2025 16:33 — 👍 217    🔁 98    💬 7    📌 1

Cutting NHS waiting lists Child Exploitation Bill

Deepfakes crackdown Early years funding boost

Cheaper train tickets Highest deportations in five years Military housing back into public ownership

Boosting profits for farmers Sending 30,000 drones to Ukraine Cap on gig ticket prices

Last Week, while Elon Musk was Craving Attention, the Government Tackled The UK's Thorniest Problems

12.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Do you agree with Sadiq Khan’s knighthood?

This clickbait poll on Khan's knighthood was at 85/15, now it's down again to 73/27.

Set them straight. Link does not artificially inflate Express's traffic figures.

You can scroll down to see the results; no need to enter an email.

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01.01.2025 13:08 — 👍 229    🔁 187    💬 86    📌 33

So, Thames Water shamelessly lies and pays bonuses with money meant to mitigate the dumping of sewage in our rivers and seas. What is the point of OFWAT🤬

23.12.2024 14:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#MyLifeMyChoice

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15.11.2024 08:45 — 👍 782    🔁 357    💬 80    📌 50

Bristol communities are 'stuck in a knife crime mire' After the murders of Max Dixon and Mason Rist, community leaders say uniting people is taking time.

This is a fascinating read about some of the issues fuelling the knife crime problem in Bristol - and what some people are doing to stop it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

16.11.2024 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0