Ewan Aitken

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By The Basa ⋅ January 22, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Ruffians on the streets

Our departed Lord Provost, famously called a “Sow’s Ear” by yet another more departed councillor really needs to come back down to earth and get in amongst the people she is supposed to be representing. Oh, I forgot, she did that and didn’t like it at all.

News from Lesley Hinds (aspiring Labour leader in the city) on her blog is that when she braved the storm of the minion public on Saturday to get people to sign up for the “Hands off the Sick Kids” campaign, in her own words, “many walked on by and in fact ignored you when you tried to speak to them about the campaign“. Why would she find this so strange. Picture it. Walking along Princes Street trying to get those new glasses at Black & Lizars before they close Shandwick Place for months for their silly tramkit. Coming towards you are four of the ugliest and most hated people in the city.

• Lesley Hinds, who lorded over theft and corruption as chair of Edinburgh Lifelong Learning Partnership (ELLP), travelled the world at the taxpayers expense as Lord Provost looking like what the aforementioned fashionista called “a sow’s ear”. She is also a bit of a carpetbagger. Knowing she wouldn’t get elected in her own ward, she did a runner to Inverleith.
• Ewan Aitken, another who lorded over theft and corruption in ELLP as Executive Member for Children and Families. As leader of the city he also tried to bribe us with a below inflation council tax increase last time round knowing that the city was totally in the shyte financially. Spends his days now throwing toys out of his pram.
• Ian Perry, who spent years telling us in his register of interest that he was getting paid as a lecturer from Stevenson College. However, a quick FOI request shows us something else. “As you know, Mr Perry is seconded on a full-time basis to Wester Hailes Education and Training Managers’ Group and has been since 1998. His salary for this is paid entirely by that organisation and his salary grade is a matter for that organisation to decide.” He is of course currently being investigated by the Standards Commission for his faux pas. Also almost his last job as Deputy Council Leader was to give Roy Jobson a job with EDI after he retired from the council.
• Kezia Dugdale, who everyone thought couldn’t go any lower when she was appointed to work in “Team Foulkes” or as most others call it “Team for Foulkes sake”. But she did. After all of Ms. Alexander’s spin doctors screwed themselves and had to resign or be fired she dropped lower and joined “Team Wendy” just as the dodgy donations were rolling in….. and then having to be given back again.

Hey SNP, Hands of the Sick Kids

As an unsuspecting shopper what would you do if they accosted you at the West End?

They didn’t even get their story right. Keiza says, “In fact lots of people were walking up to me and literally taking the petition out of my hand o sign it.” Hinds says “many walked on by and in fact ignored you when you tried to speak to them about the campaign” and Aitken says, “I have never before known so many folk wanting to sign a petition. There is a madness about this proposal.” The one thing they didn’t tell us was how many people signed the petition. Maybe the counting was just a little bit below them.

The silver lining is that they are highlighting an amazing cause started by patients’ families and which the Evening News is also supporting.

Now that these people have jumped on the publicity bandwagon maybe they can explain why it was in the last Parliament that the Health Secretary spent years trying to centralise services? A politician with two faces, surely not!

Random Posts you may have missed

• September 13, 2007 -- So the email just came in:
• April 11, 2006 -- Are the Council joining The Fix?
• May 7, 2007 -- Some Goodbyes
• March 6, 2008 -- City’s crèche madness
• April 20, 2005 -- ASH Lies again

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