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Shami Khan, or is that Shami Dodger, splits Pakastani community

By The Basa ⋅ July 25, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

With a hat-tip to ‘Filled Rolls’ for the new name, Shami Dodger should immediately dig deep into his pockets and offer to pay for the independent inquiry that will examine the incident and decide if racism played any part in the handling of the incident - this should not be taxpayers paying for this obviously […]

EdinburghSucks are losers!

By The Basa ⋅ July 25, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

At the glittering New Statesman New Media Awards last night in London, EdinburghSucks.com proved what many of our readership already thought, we’re losers.
As finalists in the awards, we failed to take away a gong and were soundly beaten (accompanied by a loud cheer from City Chambers) by the extremely high quality of the other finalists.
Throughout […]

Huge call for Shami (KhaNolan) Khan’s resignation

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

The council’s only Asian councillor who has himself been accused of racism at an East Edinburgh Local Development Committee meeting has once again used the race card after his son was arrested over the weekend by accusing the police of “institutional racism” and claimed officers from St Leonards Police Station mistreated his son.
The incident followed […]

Make an FOIA request and you are a paedophile

By The Basa ⋅ July 21, 2006 ⋅ One comment

It seems down Craigmillar way that if you dare to ask a financially dodgy and much complained against local charitable outlet for more information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) you could end up being abused by the outlet and it being insuinated by the director that you are a paedophile.
The following email (with […]

Children & Families Officials see salary soar up to 65%

By The Basa ⋅ July 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Information leaked to EdinburghSucks.com shows just how good it is to be one of the loved ones in the Chidren & Families Department.
When last year their was a re-organisation of Education and Social Work into Children & Families some of the officials saw their salary almost double and we are now going to ask for the job […]

Why was OpenAllHoors.com blamed on the whistleblower?

By The Basa ⋅ July 20, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Seemingly OpenAllHoors.com, a website by members of the Comunity Education Department taking a humourous view of the happenings in the department, was blamed on the whistleblower or Donald Reekie.  In the interests of openness, the domain registration ran out and it is now under “New Management”.
In their anger to throw as much as they could […]

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