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Lying, Bugging, Bullying, Forgery, Trickery, Deceit, Manipulation and oor Teflon Don

By The Basa ⋅ October 24, 2007 ⋅

Donald News out yesterday is that the former NuLabour council leader Donald “Teflon Don” Anderson is giving up his newly-formed consultancy over at http://www.andersonstrategy.co.uk/. The website gives users the following message:

Anderson Strategy is closing as Donald Anderson has taken up a new position as Director of PPS Scotland. Go to their website for more information. This site will soon be closed.

Now, what do we know about this company PPS? Well we do know that the Evening Standard and Channel 4’s Dispatches did an expose on their dirty tactics and the title of this post contains just some of the words to describe them. These are not our words but taken from the Evening Standard article here.

If our mailbox is anything to go by, this is the other half of the single finger salute that the former councillor and former head of Edinburgh’s planning Trevor “Dick Dastardly” Davies gave to children about a year ago. The former bent Labour administration have now stuck two fingers up to us.

We in EdSucks towers find it almost incomprehensible that the former leader who asks us to believe that he is cleaner than clean would sign up as Scottish Director of a company which has been proven to be as bent as the waste pipe below our sink. It is also surprising that our fourth estate in the form of the Evening Chip Paper and the Hootsman only manage a small paragraph on the new job given the amount of publicity that is attached to the Caltongate project and of course not forgetting the new Waste Depot project at Portobello which PPS are also involved with.

The Dispatches/Evening Standard investigation not only proved all of the above descriptions for PPS the governing body for lobby companies have started an investigation into them - even their own people don’t like them.

This from here:

According to Mark Cummings of lobbying company PPS, this could be made worse by the inexperience of new councillors.“Over 50 per cent of councillors are new to the job and there will potentially be a black hole of inexperience. It will no longer be possible to rely on who you used to know in any Scottish council.”

That sounds like “We dinnae ken who tae gie the broon envelopes to” to us.

To see just how bad this company is we suggest you watch the Dispatches programme at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8576816145694781888 (lasts 48mins 35secs - [PPS’ slot goes from 16 minutes 50 seconds to 25 minutes 24 seconds]).

For more information on PPS you can also go to the EH8 website here: http://www.eh8.org.uk/pps_in_the_news

We are sure that there will be more coming in this story.