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Community Centres taking a stand

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

Last night a pretty full room of Community Centre Management Committee members from across the city had a meeting in the Southside Community Education Centre.  The group known as the Edinbugh Federation of Community Council Management Committees were not happy about the current Fraudster Rosendale plan to get rid of pesky Management Committees and put […]

Council loses big-time in Court of Session

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

Fortunes could well be lost in what a lot of people think is the current illegal transferring of Taxi Plates at prices in excess of £50.000.
The decision in the council appeal against Dawn Salteri, Jack Stewart and Nicolas Forsyth was fundamentally to enable the council to continue to restrict black taxi licences and intimidate members of the public […]

Craigmillar Incubator: Gettin Jiggy wiv it!

By The Basa ⋅ March 24, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

More sad news on how public money is being spent.  The Craigmillar Business Incubator project which has it’s site at http://www.craigmillarincubator.co.uk/ has a seemingly novel way of supplementing it’s public funds.  It has gone into porn advertising.
The site which is linked from the parent site, the again publicly funded Cre8te in Craigmillar and the publicly […]

More information on Nursery slashings

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

More info has now come in on the post last week telling readers about the slashing of 200 nursery places in Edinburgh by the Council.
Some of the questions have been answered and we now know who the MSP is that has been digging around.  He has asked the following questions in Parliament today:
S2W-32238 Colin Fox: […]

Rosendale the Fraudster is Furious

By The Basa ⋅ March 11, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

A few moles from within Children & Families have written to us telling us just how furious Children & Families Head of Strategy Mike “the Fraudster” Rosendale is at us.  So angry is he, that he was supposed to be giving the presentation to a popular, honest, hardworking and honourable senior Community Learning and Development […]

Ewan Aitken’s “A Life in Question”

By The Basa ⋅ March 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Ewan Aitken appears on Radio Scotland’s “A life in Question”.  The show bills itself as “Individuals from all walks of life reflect on their experiences, gently guided by Colin McKay.”
One of the key quotes in the interview is “I’ve always stood up against injustice” - maybe he should reconsider that statement.  He knows perfectly well […]

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