Ewan Aitken

Another sow’s ear cock-up

By The Basa ⋅ August 29, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

The city’s very own sows ear and former Lord Provost Lesley Hinds made a huge cock up in her campaign to get press coverage to try and challenge Ewan Aitken for the leader of Edinburgh’s labour councillors so she can get herself some more money because the 15k she is on now is not enough to serve her lifestyle.

Her little plan on Monday to get a headline was to let her fingers do the walking and tip off Evening News’ Brian Ferguson that “the coonsillors are stealing the soop and half loaf”.

She said: “This whole business just typifies the way the council administration is incapable of taking a well thought-out decision.

“This new system could end up costing more to the taxpayer, as you have got to provide the catering without knowing how much you are going to recoup, while some councillors may decide to claim their lunch on expenses if they think they can justify it.”

Unfortunately Lesley Sow’s Ear proved herself incapable of making a well thought-out decision because her wee sneeky phone call ended up shopping all her labour colleagues to the whole city.

As the story in the Evening News correctly points out:
But it is understood that yesterday, on the first day of the trial, the honesty box only had around a quarter of cash it should have had in it.

We are all left to believe that it was Lesley and her labour colleagues that were putting their hands in their pockets and for a change not playing with the family jewels, but this time paying for their sustinence. Unfortunately the one fact missing from the story is that the Administration councillors were not in the City Chambers that day. They were across the road at the Policy and Strategy seminar given by the Chief Executive and Directors.

So it was all the Labour councillors (and maybe some Tories) that were literally stealing the city’s food and were indeed only putting their hands in the pockets to re-arrange the family jewels.

I suppose a lifetime habit is difficult to break. Why pay for the food when you have been getting the taxpayers to pay for it for years. In fact we don’t even know if the soup she is devouring over the extremely empty looking cash box in the photo that went with the article was paid for.

Thanks a lot labour! Labour and honesty in the same sentence always means there is something further behind the story that needs investigation.

So the Labour councillors who were theiving the soup and butties are well pissed off at the sow’s ear. There goes the the first potential leadership challenge to Rasputin Aitken with the dog collar intact.

More Info: No such thing as a free lunch, honestly

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