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Councillor Longstaff defects to Labour

By The Basa ⋅ March 27, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

What a year for defections in the Council.  At first Steve Cardownie, the still Deputy Provost defected from Labour to SNP and now Liberal Democrat councillor for Dalmeny and Kirkliston, John Longstaff has filled up the numbers in the Labour benches to give them a majority once again.
Although the Cardownie defection was a shock to […]

MSPs make money from Tobacco

By The Basa ⋅ March 27, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The MSPs who voted overwhelmingly to ban smoking in public places forgot to tell us that their pensions are dependent on us smoking more.
It was revealed that The Holyrood Pension Scheme has more than £250,000 of public money invested in tobacco firms to boost their pensions. The price of some of the tobacco shares has […]

Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson & The Hippy Rev’s jolly to Africa

By The Basa ⋅ March 27, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Whist our First Minister is swanning around on his current world tour and is expected to touch down for a visit to Scotland in the near future, we find out that the Children & Families heirarchy have “invited themselves” along on a visit that Drummond Community High School pupils are making to Africa later in […]

A Snapography of Edinburgh: Digital Photographic Exhibition

By The Basa ⋅ March 23, 2006 ⋅ One comment

The team at EdinburghSucks.com have been contacted to give some publicity to a local Edinburgh event being organised by PoL Steele.  ‘A snapography of Edinburgh’ is coming to a computer screen near you soon.  We will also probably supply a prize in the competition but the details have yet to be worked out.  In the […]

Management using the Union

By The Basa ⋅ March 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Management at the City of Edinburgh Council have come up with a novel idea of how to silence their detractors.  They’ll use the unions and they can look squeeky clean.
At yesterday’s Unison meeting for Community Education in the city, between 50 & 60 members turned up to see what was happening in union-land. 
Imagine their surprise, […]

More threats….. trackable this time

By The Basa ⋅ March 22, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

EdinburghSucks was again receiving threats today.  However, this one is trackable.  Unfortunately the person was not technical enough to cover his tracks (although the council made him the web tsar).  This time the email address that sent us the threat was yourforit@soon.dude was a visitor from Zen Internet Services.  
It seems that the nice people at Zen have […]

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