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It’s totally unbelieveable - a COSLA nighmare

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

Teflon ‘Don’ Anderson has been nominated to lead a “task group” for COSLA (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) which will decide how to conduct the marketing and branding of councils collectively across Scotland.
Teflon Don who spent £880.000 to brand Edinburgh ‘the inspiring capital’ (Click Here) forgot to register the domain name and made […]

Council screws injured citizens

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

Stories of how the council continues to screw the citizens of the city are still coming in non-stop. The latest story is that the Council are keeping citizens waiting up to 5 years to settle the claims for residents who have been injured because the council are just not up to repairing the […]

Edinburgh’s Stalinist planners

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

George Kerevan’s column in today’s Scotsman (unfortunately, this is in the premium content at the site) and I hope he won’t mind me quoting some of it here in the interest of public awareness:
In fact, I’m only moved to write this because in the past week I’ve heard several prominent environmentalists denounce Edinburgh’s traffic management […]

We called too early…

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

A couple of days ago when we reported on the resignation of David Mcletchie, unfortunately we called too early on his successor. Even party right winger Brian Monteith said he was disappointed he had been unable to persuade Mr Fraser to stand for the leadership.
He added: “In my opinion there was never the […]

Can’t trust politicians so bill the citizens

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

Today’s Scotsman reports that there is going to be a major overhaul in how our MSPs’ expenses are reported.
The overhaul:
will see every receipt and invoice published on the internet in an attempt to restore the public’s battered confidence in the Scottish Parliament.
The revolution in the way expenses are dealt with will mean […]

Leader held up - work put on hold

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

It seems that although the whole population of the city have to be held up for hours in roadworks on the way to and from work. The city center has been taken over by our elected officials and is failing. However, if our dear leader Teflon Don Anderson gets stuck in traffic […]

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