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What do you want to ask Bristol mayor George Ferguson?

By Emily_Koch  |  Posted: January 30, 2013

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George Ferguson

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Do you have a question for Bristol mayor George Ferguson?

On Friday he will be answering your questions in his first #askGeorge session - which will be broadcast live on ThisisBristol.

A reporter from ThisisBristol will choose from questions submitted by you to cover a range of issues.

All you need to do is email your questions to us by 5pm on Thursday.

Mr Ferguson will then answer as many as he can during the live webcast between 12.15 and 12.45pm on Friday - and you can watch him live.

Mr Ferguson said: "I won’t know which questions will be asked to keep me on my toes! You’ll be able to watch the recording if you miss the live webcast.

"This is part of my desire to be as open and accessible as possible.

"In December I held my first Cabinet meeting outside City Hall at the Park in Knowle West – this was very successful and attracted a much bigger attendance from the public than usual.

"I’ve pledged to hold at least six cabinet meetings a year in various locations across the city."

He added: "In early March I am planning to hold my first public question time session where members of the public will be able to raise issues with me direct.

"The first one will be here at City Hall, but I hope to stage follow up sessions throughout the city.

"The aim of all the events is to hear direct from you – your big ideas for the city, your thoughts about how services could be improved. Together we can make a difference to this great city so do not hold back."


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  • green_man  |  February 01 2013, 4:24PM

    Sustainability in the modern sense stems from the work of the scientists from MIT who produced the Limits to Growth report in 1972. The term sustainable development in the modern sense stem from the work in the 1980s of the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission, named after its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland, also known for her sciences background). So its science that modern sustainability is rooted in Gusto2 and DanielGraham, though it goes back to a common sense idea used for many hundreds of yrs eg by foresters, I suppose. You talk about religion and superstition in your rant Gust 2 but I'm an atheist/humanist and a green, as many are.

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  • green_man  |  February 01 2013, 4:01PM

    Nothing is sustained Gusto2??? How about life on earth - its been going for over 3 billion yrs which is not a bad effort! So, maybe we have things to learn about sustainability from the natural processes that have achieved this. Much of what you say is a wandering rant and bears little relation to what the modern green movement, with its aim of sustainability, is all about. For instance greens would like an explanation as to how, on a planet many of whose resources are finite, can we continue to have economic growth? And why we have the particular patterns of economic growth that we do, given that these patterns worsen inequality, resource depletion, pollution and human wellbeing?

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  • Gusto2  |  February 01 2013, 3:08PM

    Green Man, the environmentalist movement, the people who created the brand name for the new feudalism, Sustainable Development, were all oligarchs or landed nobility - of which all were eugenics freaks and openly pro-fascist (actually they created fascism). Fascism and environmentalism are not merely synergetic, they are the same thing. Have a look at the founders of the WWF (a SS officer in Prince Bernard), or Greenpeace (which, as its creator Patrick Moore said "Greenpeace has been hijacked by Marxists " - though he mislabelled those doing it, as they were fascists). The ideology of population control, limiting growth and creating scarcity to control the masses, by methods such as religious brainwashing, superstitions, the luddites, paganism, de-industrialisation and fear of technological advancements etc, has been the methodology of oligarchs throughout the last recorded 3000 years of human history. They always do this. We know the history of the modern environmentalist movement and its relation to the British Empire and the landed nobility, who fear a technologically advancing and increasing population. Please read the history on it on www. ecofascism.com By the way, nothing is sustained in this Universe; nothing whatsoever. We can prove nature operates on evolution vs devolution, growth vs decay. You may not notice it due to the slow effects, but that is how it works. The great bio-physicist Vladimir Vernadsky, showed that the human cognitive function is an anti-entropic faculty of the Universe, and that the Universe is synergetically governed by the noosphere - it is not reductionist - it evolves upwards to higher forms of energy intensive, yet smaller in mass, processes, which he named the biogenic migration of atoms. So nothing is sustained, and Sustainable Development, as its founders stated, is simply a method of manipulating the Promethean masses to give up the gift of fire, i.e to de-industrialise, in order to cull the human herd, which has always been the obsession of the ruling class. Look at Prince Phillips comments on reincarnation, he epitomises their outlook. China and Russian leaders understand this, they know the enemy is the British monarchy and those ecofascists who support them, hence they are advancing while Britain destroys its own economy through de-industrialistaion. Consider that we could have had this level of technology 2000 years ago, as we know various crude steam engines were designed by the Romans, but were taken out of existence by the same forces. We are now at a point through the late-developing industrialisation, whereby we have used the easy-to-access resources, which requires more advanced applications of the mind, through technology, to get these minerals and resources. Were we to give up this path, of what Buckminster Fuller called Ephermeralisation, we would guarantee the extinction of our species. Healthy organisms always go outward. In out case, our destiny is space, not earth. It is to keep going out until we colonise other planets. This can only be achieved through high tech scientific research based on discovering new principles in the Universe and manipulating them for our use. You don't even realise that you own your life to people who thought like this, like Leibniz, Cusa and Da Vinci, who understood this role of the creative human mind and helped take civilisation into a higher technological phase than the feudal guild system – which limited creativity as the rulers understood their power was predicated on keeping the individuals (serfs) creativity deadened as not to threaten their Order. Read ecofascism.com, if you have really care to know about the ideology you think is your own. We advance or we decay, in everything we do.

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  • green_man  |  February 01 2013, 12:56PM

    Daniel Graham - there is a fundamental contradiction in the middle of what you say about sustainable development. A green economy is by definition one that is sustainable, meaning that in social, economic and environmental terms it can endure. It cannot therefore be a green/sustainable economy if it is 'technologially backward and funded by tax subsidies' because, as you indicate, that will not endure. In addition sustainable development cannot be eco-fascism because eco-fascism is not something that is sustainable. Sustainability, or sustainable development is in truth a rounded concept involving: respecting our environment because it's a part of us and we are a part of it; stronger local communities; meeting needs now and in the future; local and global fairness and equality; efficiency; renewability; health, wellbeing and quality of life http://tinyurl.com/b8pq5wx

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  • DanielGraham  |  January 31 2013, 4:02PM

    The congestion charge is coming in. George Ferguson is fully signed up to the ecofascist Sustainable Development. They will drive the poor out of the city centres, create toll roads, hand our infrastructure over to the new feudal landlords - the various 'non-profit' ecofascist groups. They will give up the aerospace industry, as they did ship building, and they're create a city based on the green economy - until it collapses due to being technologially backward and funded by tax subsidies - which will run out due to the split between money and productive power which backs up the value of money. Get this in your heads, if you haven't already: There is no money for genuine transport solutions. EVERYTHING is now geared towards the new feudalism. Genuine transport solutions are predicated on the increasing the individuals ability to travel according to their free will - not according to First Corps timetables - i.e promote cars or motorbikes, not collectivist travel like buses. BTW George is a baby boomer, so he will, without doubt, read what people are saying about him on here. They are all the same. The 68er counterculture created a generation of collectivist ******* who only operate within the bondaries of popular opinion, so he needs to keep ahead of whats popular, or to create popularity. Truth, if unpopular, is binned. Youtube Keiser Report

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  • Dodge  |  January 31 2013, 9:05AM

    Bristol is The Capital of the west and by far the largest city in the area, yet the way the leaders have behaved in the past you would think that they believe that Bristol is a large village somewhere in Somerset. We need to be brought into the 21st centry and not be stuck in the past, we need to vastly improve our infrastructure and that means bulding proper main roads to cater for the transport. Also we need to construct a proper public transport system and buses are useless due to the poor road network so we need to go by rail maybe overhead or underground. Finally we need to improve our sporting venues with proper stadiums and arenas.

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  • C_Freak  |  January 30 2013, 8:18PM

    Yeah Spigett!!

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  • THEIRONS  |  January 30 2013, 7:09PM

    Simple get that Ashton Vale development up and running , and do it now , if not tell us why people who lie get to prosper from their lies i.e. a held up development .

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  • SlotBoy  |  January 30 2013, 5:31PM

    The article did say 'All you need to do is email your questions to us by 5pm on Thursday.' as opposed to posting them on this site. Having said that my question is 'Do you ever read the comments on here George?'

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  • TerryMedlock  |  January 30 2013, 5:03PM

    Do you view scrutiny and oversight of your decisions by elected councillors as intrusion and how will you sustain transparency and accountability?

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