Tories civil war

It seems like the Conservative party in Scotland is in the middle of a meltdown and it looks like Brian Monteith will be exiting the party quite soon - probably with a swift kick up the bahookie.
Party managers revealed there will be no let-up in their investigation into the downfall of McLetchie, whose friends have […]

Urgent Changes - and you are paying!

Our council leaders, when their backs are against the wall now announce further ‘urgent’ changes to the city centre nightmare that residents now face every day.
We don’t want changes - we want the £3.2 million central Edinburgh traffic management scheme scrapped and we want the heads of the people who proposed […]

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Help reverse city’s motoring mayhem
After thinking we could never be shocked, the kleptocrats at the council have proved us wrong. Our mailbox proves that the city is up in arms and really believes that this is their punishment for voting against the congestion charge.

Since the new city center traffic management system has been implemented, […]

It’s totally unbelieveable - a COSLA nighmare

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

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

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 […]