Andrew Burns

Local councillors get a job.

By The Basa ⋅ September 23, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that three of our local councillors have been drafted in to do a bit of a job.  Wendy Alexander is gagging to get their combined knowledge on all things lokul cooncil.

“Edinburgh councillors Ewan Aitken, Andrew Burns and Ian Perry are to report to her on renewing local government, with hints this will include control of budgets at council level and young people taking part in decisions.”

The only problem with this new job, is how long will it last. 

M’lud Fcuksake starated the leadership off by calling Brian Lironi, their Head of Communications (and one of the most expensive members of staff) “an idiot”.  Most people believe this was because M’lud was not named as deputy leader.  Of course we all know why he wasn’t named deputy leader:

The genial Blair sycophant George Foulkes – Baron Foulkes of Cumnock since Tory Bliar elected him a life peer and now one of the henchmen trying to treat Labour’s Scottish schizophrenia – was a most promising shadow cabinet minister until he came to suffer “a nasty fall on the slopes of Glenfiddich in July 1993″.At a party held by the Scotch Whisky Association, the defence spokesman at the time, also a magistrate, drank adequately from the fountain of the water of life. One witness described Foulkes’s subsequent behaviour as “like Zebedee on acid”. The MP trundled back to the Commons for a crunch vote.
Unfortunately, the pavements of Westminster dipped and rose like the deck of a clipper on a choppy sea, tossing him into the arms of pedestrians. An attempt to dance with a 70-year-old lady resulted in them both hugging the asphalt. Foulkes biffed one persistently helpful constable on the chin.

He was arrested and invited to spend the night enjoying Her Majesty’s hospitality. He pleaded guilty to assault and being drunk and disorderly, and was fined £1,050. He vowed not to drink whisky again.

Maybe he, himself has forgotten about that incident.

The daughter of the manse is again in further trouble when her party colleagues in Parliament are saying: “Wendy said she’d changed. She said motherhood and marriage had made her a more sympathetic person. That’s bollocks.” and one of her new advisers, Mike Elrick, was revealed to have made a savage attack on what he described as the “cynical and arrogant” Labour government.

The party continues to leak.  “Wendy’s had a disastrous first week in charge. The party’s more split than I can remember.” 

A senior party source said: “Foulkes’ comments were disgraceful. He is one of Brian’s employers and to attack him the way he did was reckless and stupid.“But what made things worse was Wendy’s failure to sort the problem out. It’s typical of her thoughtlessness.”

Another MSP said: “When Wendy was on tour, building support, she was interested in playing the team game. Now she’s in the job, she’s shut herself away with a wee clique and the rest of us are left out.”

 

So when Lironi resigns this week, as expected, who will be able to spin the dribblings of our councillors so that they make sense to the electorate.

We in EdSucks towers would advise the councillors not to give up their day jobs, or in the case of Ian Perry - any of them (more coming on that Perry quip).

Hat tip to Zebedee, Cumnock.

More Info: ‘Wendy said she’d changed, motherhood had made her more sympathetic … that’s bollocks’ 
It will take guile for Alexander to get the power shift she needs
Alexander’s first test as Foulkes brands her spin doctor an ‘idiot’

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