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Well said Simon!

By The Basa ⋅ December 30, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

An excellent sound off in today’s Evening News:
Thought for pennies
MY hopes for 2006 are that the ruling Labour administration will not needlessly and recklessly squander any more public money on ill-thought-out ideas of traffic management in the guise of congestion charging.
Our leaders have a moral duty to safeguard and spend our money wisely. [...]

Tory leader emptying bins?

By The Basa ⋅ December 29, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Councillor Iain Whyte the leader of the Tory group at the council has today been challenged to empty the bins and has his leadership called into question in today’s Evening News by a Kingsknowe resident today.
The difficult situation between the council and its employees who collect our refuse is not helped by the comments of [...]

“The locals are getting humpty”

By The Basa ⋅ December 23, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

That was the word from Sergeant Kenny Milne, a senior member of the police’s traffic management section to the council about the Central Edinburgh Traffic Management scheme which Alan Roden has managed to get hold of through the FOI act. It also shows the threats that flew from the Council’s full-time public realm co-ordinator [...]

They’ll spend our money but not theirs

By The Basa ⋅ December 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Edinburgh’s Labour party are extremely happy about spending taxpayers money in trying to oust new SNP councilor Steve “thug” Cardownie from everything Edinburgh. The hapless Lord Provost Lesley Hinds is diving around Edinburgh attending everything down to the opening of a packet of crisps to ensure that Cardownie is left without a function to [...]

EdinburghSucks banned to aid Social Inclusion

By The Basa ⋅ December 16, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It has come to our notice that the fictional character who does the posting here on behalf of the citizenry of the city, namely ‘The Basa’ has actually been banned from Haywired IT center in Craigmillar.
Haywired, the Communities Scotland funded centre in the Hays Business Center is run by a board of 3 people who [...]

More failure at Ballot Box

By The Basa ⋅ December 16, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday, the city’s leaders were again reeling from another bloody nose at the ballot box delivered this time by the city’s Housing department tenants. After spending in excess of £600,000 of taxpayers money in their huge scale propaganda effort, the Council were shown that their tenants have no trust in their promises.
The result of [...]

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