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Red faces all around for Council

By The Basa ⋅ May 30, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Not quite as reported in the Evening News, the inspiringcapital.com domain was not hijacked, it was taken because the Council and their agency of record, Interbrand, screwed up royally.
EdinburghSucks.com does own the domain names inspiringcapital.com, inspiringcapital.co.uk, inspiring-capital.com and inspiring-capital.co.uk. We have these registered in our name and are more than willing to [...]

MSPs using you for nest-egg.

By The Basa ⋅ May 30, 2005 ⋅ One comment

So, one third of MSPs are using their allowances to buy a nice nest-egg home in the City just like their Westminster colleagues do in London. That is a wad of your cash every year making them a good return for retirement.
Permatanned SSP former leader Tommy Sheridan has written to the Presiding Officer to [...]

Full-Time Steve Cardownie?

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

So the figures for how much the Councillors are pocketing from expenses are out with Deputy Lord Provost, and brass necked Steve Cardownie topping the list by theiving £6558 in expenses.
This is the dodgy councillor who shamed the city by offering drinks promotions at his bar whilst the Council was spending fortunes trying to [...]

Inspired Capital? no underwhelmed..

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

So the people of Edinburgh have spoken and have not given too high praise for the £800,000 new logo that Donald Anderson, our illustrious leader, thinks is overwhelmingly positive and that the logo is “eye-catching” and “imaginative”..
It just shows how out of touch our local politicians are with their electorate and gives the reason why [...]

Inspiring Capital

By The Basa ⋅ May 25, 2005 ⋅ One comment

The new catchphrase is out – (wonder if they stole our idea). With £800,000 already spent on it and millions more to come we find it extremely interesting that while this is being distributed around the world, one of the first jobs is to make sure that the local Edinbuggers know it as well.
A [...]

The worst of all worlds

By The Basa ⋅ May 24, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The worst of all words is how the Church of Scotland, currently having their General Assembly in Edinburgh, described the current Asylum policy in the country.
[The Geneva Convention] has afforded a level of protection which we are now continually eroding in an attempt to control numbers, irrespective of the human stories attached to those [...]

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