Children & Families

Double Standards flying high

By The Basa ⋅ February 25, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ 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 – the last day figures were available on the petition – the city council said “almost 120” had signed. Aitken claimed he was “happy” with the level of response so far.

It seems however that Coonsillor Aitken wasn’t “happy enough” with the interest in our poll asking whether the sacking of Fraudster Rosendale should be on the cards whilst Aitken was his boss as Executive Member for Children & Families. 

Interestingly our poll ran for 23 hours and 59 minutes got 1,124 votes and 97% of the respondents agreed that Rosendale should be fired (Click here).

So now we are to understand that although almost 120 is good enough for the good Councillor, he would expect us to supply morethan 97% of 1,124 to allow him to get rid of a fraudster from his own department.  Interestingly, as we mentioned at the time of the poll, about 40% of the votes came in from Council owned computers.

What councillor Aitken does not mention at all in his petition (Click here to sign) is that :

Ultimately, however, this may all become academic: Creative Scotland may never even get off the drawing board. As an integral part of the Culture Bill it requires ratification by an act of parliament before it can come into being. There are Scottish parliamentary elections on May 3 and the Scottish National Party, who are still slightly ahead of Labour in the polls, share the arts community’s dislike of both the Culture Bill and the proposed merger of the SAC and Scottish Screen.

So this is really nothing to do with keeping Creative Scotland in Edinburgh, this is pure and simple basic electioneering using council funds.  Good one Rev.

More Info: High-profile petition to site Creative Scotland in capital wins few backers

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