// archives

Archive for May, 2007

SNP/FibDem coalition Nolan’s new Bitchboys/girls?

By The Basa ⋅ May 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

News into EdSucks towers tonight is that the voters of Portobello/Nolanmiller are being possibly dropped by the Liberal Democrat and SNP councillors that they voted in.
Regular readers of not only EdSucks but also the Evening News will recall how Paul “We’ve Wasted Millions” Nolan’s empire started crumbling and his family and friends employment agency, known [...]

Norman ‘nae pals’ Murray gets lawyer’d up

By The Basa ⋅ May 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Failed politician Norman “nae pals” Murray, the former East Lothian council leader, hammered labour parliamentary candidate in Edinburgh East & Musselburgh and friend of Paul Nolan has now managed to get himself a lawyer in the latest episode of the losing labour party throwing their dummies out of the pram for the electorate having the [...]

Councillor blog roundup

By The Basa ⋅ May 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

We thought it might be a good idea to skip around the city’s councillors blogs to see what is happening in their world.  There may be some of the new administration that have blogs but we haven’t found them yet so maybe if you are a councillor and you have a blog, let us know [...]

Edinburgh East got lucky at the election

By The Basa ⋅ May 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Former East Lothian council leader, Norman ‘nae pals’ Murray was hoping to take Susan Deacon’s former Edinburgh East & Musselburgh seat on May 3rd.  Unfortunately, because word got round that “A vote for Murray is a vote for Nolan” and posters with that appeared in windows all over Edinburgh East, Murray and the Labour vote was totally [...]

The Lesley Hinds World Tour 2006/7

By The Basa ⋅ May 28, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

With the last year of her provostship, Lesley Hinds decided to head out on the World Tour to squeeze as much as possible out of the city before she was forced to stand down.
Now we all expect our councillors to have some expenses and probably the Lord Provost to have a few more than average [...]

The Rosendales still on the offensive

By The Basa ⋅ May 28, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Hopefully the new LibDem/SNP coalition have some idea of how to run the Children & Families department.  Their head of Neighbourhood Services, Mike ’Fraudster’ Rosendale is telling anyone that will listen that:
 ”He thinks he is untouchable and believes the Lib Dems are useless and will require his help to ensure the department will operate smoothly.”
The morale is [...]

« Previous —

Categories

Most Recent Comments