Shadow Scottish secretary resigns

I don’t think it was anything to do with our post here, but thank god, James Gray, the shadow Scottish secretary had the balls to resign today.
SNP constitution spokesman Pete Wishart said: “These outrageous comments by the shadow Scottish secretary could normally be dismissed, but this is the man chosen by Michael Howard to represent […]

Council slash for Leith Festival

It appears that because the dopy leader of the city council doesn’t walk around Leith then their annual festival gets shafted when it comes down to handing out grants. The council had no problem spending at least eight million pounds on the referendum but have problems granting the £10,000 that the long-standing local festival […]

Let jury decide on
capital’s traffic woes

In today’s Scotsman there is an opinion piece by Keith Geddes. We feel that it should be reposted here in it’s entirety. Keith has a background in local government and has held a number of senior positions including President of the Convention of Local Authorities (1996-1999), Leader of the City of Edinburgh […]

Holyrood overtime bill doubles

At the same time Audit Scotland are accusing parliament for lying about the amount of money they save, it now emerges that the overtime bill for the ministerial staff has doubled since devolution.
This is a huge embarassment to both Jack McConnell and finance minister Tom McCabe.
An urgent review has now been demanded after figures revealed […]

Tory Bliar GoogleBombed

After the massively overweight Deputy Prime Minister two-jags Prescott got googlebombed for the word ‘fuckwit’ it is now the time of the PM.
Follow these instructions and see for yourself:

1) Go to www.google.co.uk
2) Type: liar
3) Click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button
4) Voila, you’re looking at a liar on his official website
A Google bomb or Google […]

Geldof puts ball at McConnell’s foot

Bob Geldof today put the ball right at our flaky First Minister’s foot at the Scottish Parliament’s Conference on Africa held in Edinburgh when he said:
“And it is the specific task of the first minister to not welcome them if they are not prepared to do it. And if you’re not prepared to do […]