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Don’t cut the grass - its art!

By The Basa ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

We’ve had the The £431m hothouse, the The £431m water container and the The £431m Pigeon Loft now comes the The £431m garden where they can’t get the machines up to cut it because of health and safety - according to Margo MacDonald. How much more do we have to put up with?
Although Green […]

Were SSP treated too harshly?

By The Basa ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

In today’s Herald and Scotsman the Margo MacDonald/Jim Sillars household have taken joint efforts to call to question the treatment dished out by our Parliament against the SSP last week.
In a letter to George Reid the independent MSP states:
“We created a precedent and I fear that a great many, perhaps most, of us made the […]

COSLA screws up - £6m

By The Basa ⋅ July 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

What could be many hundreds of the country’s most vulnerable youngsters have been deprived of desperately needed extra cash as a result of a “scandalous” bureaucratic blunder by COSLA (The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities).
We initially covered this story here when the dodgy First Minister went public and now it seems wrongly accused the Councils […]

Pensioners ignored by Council - yet again!

By The Basa ⋅ July 3, 2005 ⋅ One comment

The city’s pensioners are being ignored by the City’s councillors yet again and their safety is being put in danger.
Mary Cunningham, 90, fell in February and has complained of a sore back ever since.
Since then Irene Ross, 85, has fallen and Normina McLeod, 85, tripped two weeks ago.
Jane Groat, a 76 year-old, began complaining […]

Make poverty history - for SSP thieves

By The Basa ⋅ July 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It looks like the comrades in the SSP are going to use today’s Make Poverty History march in the city today to gather cash for their own party totally abusing the reason for the march which is expected to be the biggest in Edinburgh’s history.
An e-mail to party supporters from Allison Kane, the SSP’s national […]

Nazi jibe from SSP

By The Basa ⋅ July 1, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Colin Fox is up in arms at the treatment handed down from the ‘powers’ above to his party’s demonstration in parliament yesterday.
“We had a short, peaceful, silent protest and they went from banning us for a day to banning us for a month, taking away our wages, banning us from the building, taking our staff’s […]

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