Contact your MP - Will they reply?

Even wondered what happened to your letter to your MP?  A great site, WriteToThem.com which is has an excellent Zeitgeist which should be helpful to all readers of EdinburghSucks.com.
We will be contacting the City Council to see if we can get the response rate for our good councillors.  Stay Tuned.
Response rate of MPs of each party

Party
Response rate
(in […]

Congestion charge anniversary

It’s exactly a year to the day since Edinburgh said no to to the Labour administration on congestion charging.
Three quarters of residents voted against the plan to charge two pounds to drive into the city centre. Perhaps a fitting day for Bumbling Andy Burns’ resignation?
It seems that Transport Edinburgh have now gone to sleep in […]

Who will be new Lord Provost?

There was much discussion in the Evening News last night about who would be the next Labour leader when Teflon Don goes, will it be the current Lord Provost Lesley Hinds, will it be the Hippy Rev. - Ewan Aitken or will it be Trevor ‘The Producer’ Davies.
That will be much debated within and outwith […]

It’s overwhelming - 97% say Rosendale Out!

Yesterday’s poll on EdinburghSucks.com was overwhelming.  1,124 people cast a vote and the result was overwhelming (The results are here).  1,087 voted that Mike Rosendale should be fired with a measly 37 voting against it.  Although this poll was not scientific, it is an amazing result and it sends a message to Ewan Aitken to […]

Council learns nothing from being fined

After being fined £5,000 (taxpayers money) for failing to protect a whistleblower who highlighted the total mismanagement of almost £400,000 which the auditor found “no system of control” the Council, Ewan Aitken and Lord Provost Lesley Hinds have not learned at all. Both Aitken and Hinds were on the board of ELLP which saw CityConnect […]

Is the Waterfront run by a cabal?

New kid on the block PiltonSucks.com is throwing up some interesting information on how things are not looking good for the residents with regard to the Waterfront project. They have thrown up the “Affordable Challenge” to their local residents:
The challenge is simply this, who will be the first person to spot an affordable house on […]