On 19 November 2012, something really stupid happened in Bristol. For reasons best known to themselves, Bristolians elected a privately educated luvvie, George Ferguson, to be their first mayor. On his first day in office, the red trousered egotist made two immediate decisions. First, he revoked Sunday parking charges and then he renamed the the seat of local government City Hall from it’s original name the Council House. There can only have been one reason for this: Ferguson must have thought it sounded so much better.
I’m sure Ferguson didn’t draw a comparison between the Council House and council houses, of which there were probably not that many in the areas he frequented. It could be that he looked at London where jew-baiting Ken Livingstone ruled the roost in City Hall before making way for the posh boy with a buffoon act, Boris Johnson. How fortunate is the rest of the country that Johnson’s career never progressed beyond local government, eh?
It’s with all this in mind that I want the current mayor Marvin Rees to return City Hall to its previous name. It’s not a die-in-a-ditch campaign in the grand scheme of things, but Ferguson’s change was utterly pointless. The queen, Gawd bless her, opened the building in 1956 and it was named the Council House. If it was good enough for her maj then, it’s good enough now.
