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What about the children?

By The Basa ⋅ November 14, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The children of Scotland are the future of Scotland. Nobody denies that. What is it today, the figures show thousands of children are failing to achieve basic levels of numeracy and literacy.
Why is this happening and why is the Scottish Executive refusing to publish the data that was paid for by the polulation […]

Explain the £35,000 fix

By The Basa ⋅ November 13, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

If it’s true, then it is amazing that the council could carry out the work for the price stated. We asked earlier for the council to publish the amount it would cost to reverse the nightmare that they call the ‘traffic management’ scheme. The council this week published the figure of £35,000 and […]

Tram Plan gives Labour bloody nose

By The Basa ⋅ November 13, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The council’s ruling Labour party got yet another bloody nose in the last week thanks to the voters of the Murrayfield district. They were pushed into fourth place garnering only about a shocking 6% of the vote in the district.
What made matters worse and is telling for the future is that the appearance […]

Teflon Don Anderson got an email

By The Basa ⋅ November 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Councillor Anderson would have been a happy camper this morning when he opened this email:
Dear Leader Anderson,
Forgive me for returning, yet again, to a depressingly familiar subject - your Leadership or, rather, lack of it.
The spin attributed to you in yesterday’s Evening News displayed, simultaneously, breathtaking arrogance as well as a craven ‘it […]

City politicans join our call for resignation

By The Basa ⋅ November 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Leading city politicians today joined with EdinburghSucks!com call earlier this week for the sacking of city transport supremo Andrew Burns.
Phil Wheeler, the Liberal Democrats’ transport spokesman, agreed it was time for Mr Burns to resign from his post.
and
Iain Whyte, the city’s Tory group leader, said he had lost confidence in Mr Burns overseeing transport […]

The people speak.

By The Basa ⋅ November 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

One day’s letters to the Evening News.
In the last year the city centre has become an impossible maze and is horribly confusing for anyone trying to come into town. The net effect of the many closures is chaos, confusion and congestion.
Thank goodness someone is taking these council officials to task over the disgraceful mess they […]

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