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Children & Families

Sorry Porty, we (Labour council) forgot to ask for the money

By The Basa ⋅ October 1, 2007 ⋅

Everyone around the city spent hours and hours on campaigns to get their new school built. Labour were running round the city pretending to “listen to the people”, they even lied at a public meeting that they had bought a piece of land to be used as the new Portobello Golf course - unfortunately, it was all in vain.

They came up with plans, made nice drawings and had meetings and meetings and meetings. The only thing they forgot to do was ask the Scottish Executive (as was) for the money to build the school and of course the others in Edinburgh.

We can just imagine former council leader Ewan Aitken, I’ll send that letter off to get the money for the schools….. just as soon as I update my blog. Unfortunately, like the blog update, that was forgotten as well. Can’t wait to see his quotes in the press.

The even more amazing part of the story is that a parent found out about it and had to let the council know that the money wasn’t in the bank for the new Edinburgh secondary schools. Oh well - that’s why Ian Perry former Chair of the council owned company EDI thought it would be good to have Roy Jobson work for them - he could forget letters for them as well.

As details are sketchy at the moment, we presume all will be revealed in the Evening News tomorrow. That’s what you get for having Mike Rosendale as head of strategy.

If this blows up as big as we think it will, Lesley Hinds may get her chance to bid for Labour’s leadership which she has been building on since the election .

UPDATE

Well the story has been published in the EN. We got the info a bit garbled but the paragraph du jour must be:

“However, Fiona said there never was any money and even if Labour had been returned to power there would not have been any money.”

Andrew Burns’ comment:

“This is a scandal. We had a firm commitment to refurbish or rebuild those five schools.”

By whom? Where is the paperwork? Where was the money coming from? Let’s not have more statements without verifiable source citations from any politician.

Malcolm Maclaren’s Statement:

Education leader Councillor Marilyne MacLaren said: “I was always told the Scottish Government had identified a sum of money and it would be part of their three-year spending review.

Aye right - and YooAnne told you it was stuffed in a cupboard in Mike Rosendale’s office. Again Malky, where are the verifiable source citations

Can we have a quickie wee investigation to ask the former Labour council where exactly the money was coming from. Should take all of 2 hours so costs would be small.

More Info (under a more misleading headline than ours): Schools in limbo as minister pulls plug on £100m revamp