If Labour leaks, so can we all

Dirty tricks at their Ali Campbell best. The upcoming elections are looking more and more interesting all the time. The Sunday Times is reporting that Labour supposedly has a dirty tricks effort called “Operation Blackwatch” that is infiltrating Tory meetings and taping various Tory speakers’ comments for later public leaking.
It is kind of like me […]

Why council defence of reserves falls flat

COSLA and it’s member councils are today facing the fact that they have yet again been found lying to their constituents with their increases in council tax (constitutents call it poll tax) twice the level of inflation.
“After the Accounts Commission revealed they were sitting on £1bn of reserves while jacking up council tax at […]

£1 billion in the bank but council tax will soar

The Scotsman picked up on this story, as did The Herald. The cheeky councils have been rumbled and the body which represents all councils the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), accused Audit Scotland of looking for “cheap headlines” - nothing cheap about £1 billion in my book.
“The figure - enough to pay for 34,482 […]

Former Lord Provost & Current Leader

Former Lord Provost “Teeth” Milligan and “The Leader” Anderson discussing what really matters to them - click on cartoon to see full size:

Cartoon by Frank Boyle who does daily cartoons for the Evening News and other newspapers.

Decay nothing to be proud of

Another citizen of Edinburgh catches “The Leader” out in his lies:
“What a shock - numerous boarded-up shops and third-world pavements and roads. I remember this as always being a tidy bustling area.
This is what Mr Anderson and his cronies are so proud of achieving in this once beautiful city - businesses and people taxed into […]

Community ‘being kept in dark’

Pennywell community leaders are up in arms about being kept in the dark about a new school being built and which could loose yet even more playing fields in Edinburgh. The local Tennants Association secretary is absolutely furious.
‘This is the worst place they could have put it,’ Ms Marrow said. ‘We are worried we will […]