Bristol City Council Opiniones 

My daughter left her car unattended for 5 minutes to meet me off the train and she got a ticket RIDICULOUS we were back to the car as you were putting the ticket on
Awful

This Council, supposedly Labour run, is actually a complete farce. It is a comedy act without any humour. Why? It's hard to know where to start!

Rivers of money flow under this thing, and despite most coming from ordinary working people they are diverting it in a manner that would be admired by the lowest moral tier of Mafia. Examples:-
1. The top executives and managers on six figure salaries, whilst other staff are sacked or threatened with redundancy.
2. They continuously fork out money to the private sector. Investment banks, well-funded organisations, property outfits. No prizes for guessing how these pay their 'top' employees.
3. They don't listen. They resent democracy so much that they closed the neighbourhood partnerships and short-circuited means to properly challenge planning decisions.

So actually what this Council resembles is a reverse robin hood. The money is literally extorted from the poor and middle classes (who face JAIL if they don't pay the Council Tax / Poll Tax), then palmed off to the rich (in ways noted above).

To be fair they are not unique from other British councils in how they act but that's no excuse. Another thing: their planning department is ripe for an undercover journalist. The practices there are abominable. Put it this way: a few pockets are getting very heavy, courtesy of council tax payers.