Dodgy MSPs’ - Taxpayers pay again

EdinburghSucks.com will be following with interest over the next few years how much the Scottish Parliament is spending on the publication of MSPs expenses online.
Copies of each receipt submitted by an MSP will be posted online at the Parliament’s website with the first phase of the new system being online by the end of next […]

Anderson leaving the council
gets my (our) vote

OH joy! Your report that Councillor Donald Anderson has decided not to seek re-election to our Council next year is a welcome one indeed (News, February 17).
That his tenure has been an unmitigated disaster for Edinburgh has been widely and continually reported down through the years.
    

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His responsibility for squandering huge sums of taxpayers cash […]

Screw the tourists, Council says.

To save a measly £35,000 a year the council have decided to close the museums in the capital city of Scotland every Monday including Bank Holidays.
Having been shouting about tourism since coming to power they have now decided to screw the tourists, especially the Bank Holiday and long weekend tourists who visit from other parts […]

Teflon Don to Quit, non-story

Details are a bit sketchy at the moment for us.  But many people including the BBC have been visiting EdSucks to find out about Donald “Teflon Don” Anderson.  It seems that he is to quit (not before time and will he take a lot of them with him) today.
This post will be updated 
UPDATE
So it seems […]

Cosy council relationship… again!

Edinburgh taxi drivers are asking interesting questions about a cosy relationship with the City of Edinburgh council have with Cabtivate, the company who provide a screen based advertising system in taxis (TVs to you and I).
Members of the taxi trade on multiple occasions raised questions about the propriety of the process which granted approval for […]

Edinburgh’s “Grassy Knoll”

Thanks to the digging of the Evening News’ Ian Swanson we have found out that Edinburgh would have had it’s own ‘Grassy Knoll’.  Nothing to do with getting rid of presidents for Edinburgh, our assassin would have been aiming straight at the heart of any pigeon who dared to go close to the £431 million parliament […]