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Bottom feeder comes back for more

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

Keith Raffan the former Lib-Dem MSP and TV presenter who resigned after claiming more than £40,000 in mileage expenses has come back to the trough for some more. Raffan had earlier been the conservative MP for Delyn between 1983 and 1992.
Although he is still under investigation by Deloitte Touche over the expenses he […]

Airport Taxis - open for comment

By The Basa ⋅ August 22, 2005 ⋅ 24 comments

We have received a letter which affects us personally. EdinburghSucks!com uses the airport a lot and we have had concerns over the length of time we wait for a taxi from the airport when arriving at Edinburgh Airport in the morning which we do a lot.
For the first time we are leaving a post […]

Bung or no bung - You Decide!

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

When we are constantly being asked by our politicians to believe in them and they are only doing the best for the city, it is surprising that the council turns down £2 million from one company for a piece of land and accepts £600,000 from another one.
The “ransom strip” at Kinleith Mill, Currie, was last […]

£150,000 for new meetings

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

Seems like the conservatives don’t want to play with labour any more even though the labour have turned up with a £150,000 ball.
Bumbling Andy Burns has already spent over £8,000,000 of our money on a transport referendum where the citizens basically told him to go and do unspeakable things to himself but now he has […]

Special needs kids - second class citizens

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

It looks like Bumbling Andy Burns, the city’s hated senior transport idiot has been lying again and blaming an un-named private hire firm for the Council’s let down of it’s special needs pupils last week.
Edinburgh City Council staff had to drive children to school after not enough private hire and coach firms were found to […]

Finally secure but questions remain

By The Basa ⋅ August 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Less than one day after the security and IT nightmare happening in the Craigmillar appeared on EdinburghSucks!.com the powers that be managed to get a secure form for applications. Once again, EdinburghSucks!com makes a change.
There was a week where we were running round Craigmillar trying to get the powers that be that are involved […]

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