Bunty Backhander using public money and premises to distribute leaflets and plan.

It seems that Elizabeth “Bunty Backhander” Maginnis is using her influence as Chair of the Pilton Partnership. 
Partnership funded (supposedly independent) North Edinburgh News’ David Pickering who is a full time employee of the project was at his workplace to receive the Labour Party leaflets that he was instructed to hand out in the community by [...]

Next Save Meadowbank meeting

The next organising meeting of the Save Meadowbank campaign will be held at the New Restalrig Church, Jocks Lodge at 7:30pm – it is expected to last until 9:30 pm.
UPDATE from the Save Meadowbank Campaign:
Given the at least partial success that we had on Thursday , the organising meeting has instead become a wee social at [...]

How the Lothian MSP’s fare for local biz

Well we have a handful of the Lothians MSP contenders’ leaflets dropped through doors.  Just how are they going to help business in Edinburgh.
Let’s check the leaflets to see if they support Lothian businesses enough to give them the leaflet printing job.  So in no particular order:

Tango Tommy’s Solidarity – Not only did Tango not bother [...]

Labour getting a kicking

With the normally ultra-labour-supporting Scotland on Sunday coming out with the following headlines this week, it would seem that Scotland’s NuLabourites are really gonna get a helluva kicking at the polls on Thursday:

Desperate Jack begs for votes
JACK McConnell has issued a desperate plea to Tory and Liberal voters, urging them to vote tactically for Labour [...]

Meadowbank councillor Ian (snottery nose) Perry forgot his hankie

An interesting picture appears on the excellent Edinburgh At Risk (EAR) site ( http://www.EdinburghAtRisk.org).
The picture is taken inside the full council meeting at the City Chambers when the Save Meadowbank ( http://www.savemeadowbank.org/ ) deputation are speaking at the chambers and not only shows the leader of the council Ewan ‘Rasputin’ Aitken extremely pissed off being told [...]

We had to send an email

When we had it leaked that Alan Henderson, head of planning at the council got an email regarding one of our posts – we had to send one as well. 
——– Original Message ——–

Subject:
Bunty Backhander and the Wardie Crescent development

Date:
Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:19:15 -0400

From:
The Basa   
 

To:
alan.henderson@edinburgh.gov.uk

Dear Mr Henderson,
We have it on good authority [...]