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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 […]

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. […]

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