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Napier, Oooohh… you little liars

By The Basa ⋅ April 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It appears that it is not only EdinburghSucks.com that Napier University lies to.  Imagine the gasps and sharp intakes of breath around EdSucks towers when we read that the University also lied to an Industrial Tribunal after they fired a lecturer claiming he did not have permission to operate the business on university premises.
However, when […]

Council head to court again

By The Basa ⋅ April 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It appears that the Labour party doesn’t really stand for equal pay for equal work anymore.  The council are now ready to head to court to fight against hundreds of female workers because the ladies have rejected a £4000 offer for years of being underpaid by the same council.
They are supported by Unison, the public […]

MSPs Track Record

By The Basa ⋅ April 8, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

An interesting letter to tonight’s Evening News manages to capture some of the track record of our good parliamentarians:
MSPs feathering own nests at our expense
JEAN L CLARK (”What do our MSPs do?” Letters, April 4) asks what our MSPs have done for our country.
Well, as she says, they have sat back while some of the […]

Did Napier University lie to EdinburghSucks.com?

By The Basa ⋅ April 6, 2006 ⋅ One comment

No sooner than we published our post on yet another of disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan’s conflicts of interest, where we included a quote we were given from Napier University, our email box was deluged from those in-the-know both within Napier and without.
Indeed we believe we were lied to by Napier University when the supplied us […]

University gives Nolan’s “conflict of interest” an air of respectability

By The Basa ⋅ April 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that the investigations into disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan has not perturbed him at all, even though his walking vote, Mick ‘McNumpty’ McNulty ‘did a runner’ when going to be faced with an investigating officer.In the latest conflict, it now seems that Nolan’s son, John, has landed a job in the community IT centre […]

Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson refuses parents calls

By The Basa ⋅ April 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The public servant in charge of Children and Families has had his secretary tell a parent whose 14 year-old daughter was viciously and seriously attacked in front of a teacher that he does not take calls from parents.
This distraught parent is not the only one.  The story of the attack at Holyrood High School came […]

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