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City tourism chief quits secretive VisitScotland

By The Basa ⋅ April 22, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Scotland’s, tourist industry was delivered a massive blow when Jack Munro quit the extremely secretive government agency VisitScotland.
Jack Munro has taken early retirement under a pay-off deal which includes a gagging clause barring him speaking about the disagreement. This means that we the taxpayers, cannot find out the truth why this highly important person […]

City finance chief fears local income tax

By The Basa ⋅ April 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Maureen ‘Three Houses’ Child the city’s finance chief who used council resources to push her political ambitions during the recent congestion charging referendum and who voted unsuccessfully to close down a school against the wishes of her constituents has today come out against a proposed local income tax.
Councillor Maureen Child, the city’s finance leader, […]

City to screw another £3m from residents

By The Basa ⋅ April 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

As EdinburghSucks.com has said before here and here , the extension of the new parking scheme is all about making money through yet another stealth tax against it’s citizens and it is confirmed with tonight’s front page headline in the Evening News.
The cash it is likely to raise would be enough to provide the permits […]

The nightmare that is NHS 24

By The Basa ⋅ April 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Members of the Scottish Local Medical Committee have yet again raised concerns that NHS 24 is putting patients at risk as it struggles to find enough staff to deal with some of the 30,000 calls received every week.
Following the introduction of GP contracts, the service has come under increasing pressure to field out-of-hours calls previously […]

Too little too late

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

With expensively produced flashy leaflets, expensively hand delivered through doors today in the selected areas, TransportEdinburgh is finally taking the first steps to cutting down the speeds of the rogue drivers through the residential areas. The website quoted in the piece also has problems. Users are unable to view the PDF files […]

ASH Lies again

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

Mr. O’Sullivan from the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland writes to Scotland to again complain about the latest lies from Scotland’s Chief Smoking Nazi Maureen Moore.
His letter to The Scotsman today sets out the real facts:
Once again, Maureen Moore, of ASH Scotland, misleads readers (Letters, 15 April). Over 200 Irish pubs have closed since the […]

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