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Labour Party to pay back?

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

As Gordon Brown did a u-turn when he arrived in Israel yesterday without carring out the duties he was supposed to because he had to be back in the country for the failed vote in Parliament yesterday, we hope the Labour Party will pay those expenses and not leave it up to the British taxpayer.
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Anderson’s brass neck

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

Today the stupid council leader Teflon Don Anderson who has completely screwed up the city center with his sidekick bumbling Andrew Burns had the brass neck to take credit for the police raids in the east of the city yesterday.
“We have invested substantial amounts of council money to put an extra 10 per cent of […]

Street Furniture Capital of the World

By The Basa ⋅ November 9, 2005 ⋅ One comment

How much will the both the implementation and the reversal of our city center nightmare cost. Edinburgh Sucks demands that the citizens of Edinburgh are given a full and comprehensive costing of the plan and also demands that heads roll.
First head that MUST roll is that of our transport supremeo Bumbling Andrew Burns. […]

Parliament uses Enron-style accounting

By The Basa ⋅ November 9, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Holyrood.com is reporting that Green MSP Mark Ballard has criticised Finance Minister Tom McCabe after McCabe revealed a previously unknown holding account held with the Treasury.
Ballard said that McCabe’s revelation made a mockery of the entire budget process, especially given that the Executive and previous Finance Minister Andy Kerr had given commitments to identify […]

Former health boss in Lords cash row

By The Basa ⋅ November 9, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The former head of Lothian Health Board Margaret Ford, who chaired the board for three years up until 2000, appears on a leaked list of 28 new working peers due to be announced next month which has sparked a cash-for-peerages row.
Seemingly most of the people on the list are the millionaires who bankrolled both […]

What Culture?

By The Basa ⋅ November 9, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

What happened to the speech that Jack McConnell made on St. Andrew’s Day in 2003. Our hapless first minster in his speech promised to put culture at the heart of Scottish life.
Meanwhile the Scottish Arts Council, now very curiously run by the ex-Bishop of Edinburgh, the Right Reverend Richard Holloway seems to be living […]

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