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Leaders don’t do deals - They do steals

By The Basa ⋅ February 27, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Ewan ‘Rasputin’ Aitken is rabbiting on his blog about his six hour walk around his constituency - obviously an election on the way. 
I didn’t go into elected politics to do deals with the Tories. Individually many of them are nice people but their politics are an anathema to me.
Of course, right on track for New […]

Report on CEC: Overall there was a lack of management….

By The Basa ⋅ February 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

We are all used to Donald ‘Teflon Don’ Anderson and Ewan ‘Rasputin’ Aitken telling us just how well they are doing with our taxpayer pounds.  Isn’t it interesting when JR emails us and points us in the direction of pure proof that they are not doing to well at all - in fact they are […]

Double Standards flying high

By The Basa ⋅ February 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

With his double standards flying high at the top of the mast, our council leader Ewan ‘Rasputin’ Aitken tells the Sunday Herald this weekend that he was “happy” with the amount of signatories on his poll to keep Creative Scotland in the Capital - something actually that we in EdSucks towers totally agree with.
On Friday […]

Council leader has his head in the sand

By The Basa ⋅ February 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Roll on May.  With the news today that one of the UK’s leading retailers of fine jewellery and silverware, Mappin & Webb, are going to close their doors in George Street.  The company which was founded in 1774 and has one of Edinburgh’s best January sales is the latest addition to the mass exodus of […]

Volunteers do it better!

By The Basa ⋅ February 16, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that websites run by volunteers on a shoestring do the stuff a lot better than Council websites which have had more than one million pounds spent on them and are run by full-time Council staff.
myEdinburgh.org is the website that was set up by the Council to be everything to everyone and the site […]

Al Frater, come clean…..

By The Basa ⋅ February 12, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

We hear that one of the kingpins in the missing £400,000 from ELLP with Ewan Aitken and Lesley Anderson on the board together with company secretary, fraudster, liar and thug Mike Rosendale is applying for a new job in the e-government department at the council.  A search of the council’s website throws up zero results […]

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